Automated Testing
UK

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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -57 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,784 7,339 12,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 6.94% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 7.26% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 3,248 5,528
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% +7.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Top 18 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 April 2024. 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
Jobs
England -67 2,161 £60,000 -7.69% 715
UK excluding London -61 1,954 £52,500 -8.70% 533
Work from Home -44 1,005 £56,750 -12.69% 330
London -68 670 £72,500 -3.33% 239
South East -53 498 £55,000 -6.78% 123
Scotland -33 410 £50,000 -16.67% 49
North of England -83 355 £57,500 +3.60% 122
Midlands -81 255 £50,000 -9.09% 81
South West -47 248 £55,000 +4.76% 66
North West -66 211 £56,250 -2.17% 80
West Midlands -53 188 £50,000 -11.47% 50
Yorkshire -75 109 £55,000 +4.76% 36
East of England -84 106 £51,250 -24.07% 80
Wales -27 74 £50,000 +19.05% 17
East Midlands -96 66 £47,500 -13.64% 31
North East -33 35 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Northern Ireland -25 11 £57,500 -6.12% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 113 (4.06%) Apache Spark
2 90 (3.23%) Confluence
3 40 (1.44%) Apache
4 28 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 21 (0.75%) IIS
6 17 (0.61%) CMS
7 13 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
7 13 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.29%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
10 7 (0.25%) WordPress
11 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.14%) TWiki
12 2 (0.072%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.072%) JBoss
12 2 (0.072%) Mule
13 1 (0.036%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.14%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.072%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.036%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.036%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 44 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.32%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.072%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.072%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.036%) Endur
6 1 (0.036%) Postilion
6 1 (0.036%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 767 (27.55%) AWS
2 720 (25.86%) Azure
3 258 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (8.05%) SaaS
5 163 (5.85%) GCP
6 140 (5.03%) GitHub
7 131 (4.71%) Serverless
8 107 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
9 105 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 79 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
11 66 (2.37%) Power Platform
12 64 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (2.23%) IBM Cloud
14 54 (1.94%) OCI
14 54 (1.94%) Route 53
15 53 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
15 53 (1.90%) PaaS
16 51 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (1.62%) Power Automate
18 36 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.44%) Kerberos
2 59 (2.12%) 5G
3 44 (1.58%) Wireless
4 39 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (1.29%) Internet
6 35 (1.26%) DNS
6 35 (1.26%) SD-WAN
6 35 (1.26%) WAN
7 34 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.15%) Bluetooth
9 31 (1.11%) HTTP
10 28 (1.01%) Firewall
11 22 (0.79%) GSM
11 22 (0.79%) ISDN
11 22 (0.79%) LTE
11 22 (0.79%) PSTN
11 22 (0.79%) UMTS
12 18 (0.65%) DSL
12 18 (0.65%) MQTT
12 18 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (8.01%) SQL Server
2 208 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 125 (4.49%) MySQL
4 122 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 115 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 112 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
7 86 (3.09%) Big Data
8 84 (3.02%) Apache Hive
8 84 (3.02%) HBase
9 79 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
10 78 (2.80%) Metadata
11 65 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 63 (2.26%) Hadoop
13 54 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
14 49 (1.76%) DynamoDB
15 39 (1.40%) Data Lake
16 28 (1.01%) DB2
17 26 (0.93%) Tableau
18 22 (0.79%) Power BI
19 18 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 554 (19.90%) Git
2 422 (15.16%) Jenkins
3 394 (14.15%) Selenium
4 276 (9.91%) JIRA
5 180 (6.47%) Cucumber
6 143 (5.14%) Cypress.io
7 138 (4.96%) Postman
8 134 (4.81%) Bitbucket
9 129 (4.63%) JMeter
10 96 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
11 95 (3.41%) Visual Studio
12 84 (3.02%) JUnit
13 74 (2.66%) GitLab
14 71 (2.55%) Artifactory
15 70 (2.51%) Appium
15 70 (2.51%) WebDriver
16 65 (2.33%) TeamCity
17 61 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
18 59 (2.12%) SpecFlow
19 54 (1.94%) SoapUI
General
1 704 (25.29%) Finance
2 666 (23.92%) Social Skills
3 499 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 383 (13.76%) Law
5 278 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
6 225 (8.08%) Marketing
7 197 (7.08%) Public Sector
8 177 (6.36%) Banking
9 116 (4.17%) Retail
10 108 (3.88%) Legal
11 82 (2.95%) Electronics
12 69 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.44%) Aerospace
14 64 (2.30%) Investment Banking
15 60 (2.16%) Automotive
16 59 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
16 59 (2.12%) Telecoms
17 51 (1.83%) Financial Institution
18 45 (1.62%) Manufacturing
19 42 (1.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 692 (24.86%) Developer
2 531 (19.07%) Software Engineer
3 514 (18.46%) Senior
4 405 (14.55%) Lead
5 202 (7.26%) Tester
6 200 (7.18%) Test Engineer
7 157 (5.64%) QA Engineer
8 154 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 148 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 135 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 133 (4.78%) Java Engineer
12 125 (4.49%) Software Developer
13 121 (4.35%) Analyst
14 110 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
15 106 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
16 104 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
17 92 (3.30%) Full Stack Developer
18 82 (2.95%) Automation Tester
19 80 (2.87%) Data Engineer
20 77 (2.77%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (15.45%) .NET
2 272 (9.77%) React
3 256 (9.20%) RESTful
4 221 (7.94%) HTML
5 219 (7.87%) REST
6 210 (7.54%) JSON
7 206 (7.40%) CSS
8 196 (7.04%) Web Services
9 173 (6.21%) XML
10 167 (6.00%) AngularJS
11 155 (5.57%) Node.js
12 139 (4.99%) Spring
13 134 (4.81%) Spring Boot
14 106 (3.81%) ASP.NET
15 105 (3.77%) .NET Core
16 88 (3.16%) OpenID
17 80 (2.87%) .NET Framework
18 77 (2.77%) Playwright
19 72 (2.59%) LDAP
20 71 (2.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 157 (5.64%) Management Information System
2 142 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 136 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 116 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 112 (4.02%) Mobile App
6 99 (3.56%) Cloud Native
7 87 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 77 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 67 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 67 (2.41%) Reference Data
10 60 (2.16%) e-Learning
11 57 (2.05%) Blockchain
12 51 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.54%) Satnav
15 41 (1.47%) Data Structures
16 37 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.33%) IoT
17 36 (1.29%) Private Cloud
18 35 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 268 (9.63%) Linux
2 180 (6.47%) Windows
3 137 (4.92%) Unix
4 65 (2.33%) Android
4 65 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.32%) Debian
11 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.14%) VMS
12 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.072%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,563 (56.14%) Agile
2 850 (30.53%) CI/CD
3 845 (30.35%) DevOps
4 808 (29.02%) Software Engineering
5 599 (21.52%) Software Testing
6 575 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
7 484 (17.39%) SDLC
8 471 (16.92%) Mentoring
9 436 (15.66%) TDD
10 404 (14.51%) Microservices
11 372 (13.36%) Continuous Integration
12 366 (13.15%) Scrum
13 328 (11.78%) Coaching
14 323 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 290 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
16 273 (9.81%) Computer Science
17 268 (9.63%) Test Scripting
18 263 (9.45%) Test Strategy
19 248 (8.91%) Full Stack Development
20 244 (8.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 716 (25.72%) Java
2 700 (25.14%) SQL
3 644 (23.13%) Python
4 599 (21.52%) C#
5 579 (20.80%) JavaScript
6 253 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 158 (5.68%) C
8 145 (5.21%) Go
9 138 (4.96%) C++
10 126 (4.53%) PL/SQL
11 106 (3.81%) PowerShell
12 98 (3.52%) PHP
13 74 (2.66%) Bash
14 66 (2.37%) SPARQL
15 65 (2.33%) Prolog
16 54 (1.94%) T-SQL
17 53 (1.90%) Kotlin
18 47 (1.69%) Perl
19 39 (1.40%) Scala
20 37 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 472 (16.95%) Degree
2 272 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 177 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 173 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 102 (3.66%) ISTQB
6 56 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.58%) ISEB
8 36 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 23 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 23 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.68%) HND
12 15 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.22%) HNC
16 5 (0.18%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.18%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (23.89%) QA
2 71 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.26%) GDPR
4 27 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 27 (0.97%) SLA
4 27 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
5 26 (0.93%) PMO
6 25 (0.90%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.54%) WAI
8 12 (0.43%) NCSC
9 10 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.36%) JTAG
10 9 (0.32%) MISRA
11 8 (0.29%) PSD2
12 7 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.18%) WCAG
14 4 (0.14%) DICOM
14 4 (0.14%) HL7
14 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 283 (10.17%) Docker
2 88 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 84 (3.02%) HDFS
4 37 (1.33%) Firmware
5 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
7 19 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
8 12 (0.43%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.14%) OpenSIPS
11 4 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.11%) vSphere
13 2 (0.072%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 349 (12.54%) Terraform
2 315 (11.31%) Kubernetes
3 131 (4.71%) Ansible
4 56 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.58%) Puppet
6 42 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 38 (1.36%) Grafana
8 22 (0.79%) Kibana
9 17 (0.61%) Nagios
10 12 (0.43%) Packer
11 11 (0.40%) Salt
11 11 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.36%) Graphite
12 10 (0.36%) HAProxy
13 7 (0.25%) MIIS
14 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.22%) Argo
15 5 (0.18%) Control-M
15 5 (0.18%) Istio
16 4 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 294 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.67%) Databricks
3 84 (3.02%) Informatica
3 84 (3.02%) Oracle
4 74 (2.66%) Google
5 72 (2.59%) IBM
6 63 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 59 (2.12%) Red Hat
8 55 (1.98%) Cloudera
9 33 (1.19%) Xamarin
10 27 (0.97%) Sybase
11 25 (0.90%) UiPath
12 24 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 24 (0.86%) YouTube
13 23 (0.83%) SAP
14 22 (0.79%) Splunk
15 21 (0.75%) VMware
16 20 (0.72%) Cognos
17 19 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
17 19 (0.68%) ServiceNow