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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 23 January 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Automated Testing UK |
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6 months to
23 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
30 |
29 |
32 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+3 |
+7 |
| Permanent jobs citing Test Automation |
8,496 |
10,797 |
11,314 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
6.76% |
7.11% |
6.48% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
7.35% |
7.72% |
7.03% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
6,545 |
8,376 |
9,031 |
| UK median annual salary |
£51,500 |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+3.00% |
- |
+8.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£32,500 |
£32,500 |
£31,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£82,500 |
£77,500 |
£73,250 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
115,658 |
139,904 |
160,974 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
91.97% |
92.15% |
92.20% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
91,616 |
110,302 |
129,818 |
| UK median annual salary |
£52,500 |
£52,500 |
£50,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.00% |
+5.26% |
| 10th Percentile |
£30,485 |
£29,769 |
£28,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£87,500 |
£85,000 |
£80,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£46,000 |
£45,000 |
£45,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.22% |
- |
+5.88% |
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Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Test Automation as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Test Automation
Salary Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Automation.
Test Automation
Salary Histogram
The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
Test Automation
Top 16 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 23 January 2020.
The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
| Location |
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year |
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads |
Median Salary
Past 6 Months |
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year |
Live
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
0 |
7,807 |
£52,500 |
+2.94% |
1,379 |
| UK excluding London |
+1 |
5,301 |
£45,000 |
- |
1,065 |
| London |
-9 |
3,026 |
£65,000 |
+8.33% |
425 |
| South East |
-1 |
1,588 |
£50,000 |
+5.26% |
274 |
| North of England |
+10 |
1,315 |
£45,000 |
- |
276 |
| South West |
+9 |
750 |
£45,000 |
- |
148 |
| Midlands |
-2 |
645 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
143 |
| North West |
+7 |
642 |
£45,000 |
- |
122 |
| Yorkshire |
+7 |
579 |
£45,000 |
- |
116 |
| East of England |
-6 |
435 |
£50,000 |
+4.17% |
112 |
| West Midlands |
+1 |
362 |
£45,000 |
+5.88% |
67 |
| Scotland |
-13 |
321 |
£45,000 |
- |
52 |
| East Midlands |
-2 |
276 |
£45,000 |
+8.43% |
76 |
| Wales |
+14 |
217 |
£45,000 |
+11.80% |
52 |
| North East |
-1 |
94 |
£39,837 |
-17.83% |
38 |
| Northern Ireland |
+1 |
43 |
£40,000 |
-3.61% |
9 |
For the 6 months to 23 January 2020, IT jobs citing Test Automation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Test Automation.
| 1 |
5,148 (60.59%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,925 (34.43%) |
Java |
| 3 |
2,695 (31.72%) |
Selenium |
| 4 |
2,612 (30.74%) |
C# |
| 5 |
2,449 (28.83%) |
QA |
| 6 |
2,092 (24.62%) |
JavaScript |
| 7 |
1,961 (23.08%) |
SQL |
| 8 |
1,937 (22.80%) |
Scrum |
| 9 |
1,887 (22.21%) |
DevOps |
| 10 |
1,695 (19.95%) |
TDD |
| 11 |
1,633 (19.22%) |
BDD |
| 12 |
1,583 (18.63%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 13 |
1,544 (18.17%) |
.NET |
| 14 |
1,502 (17.68%) |
Python |
| 15 |
1,469 (17.29%) |
Finance |
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Test Automation
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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