Test Automation Job Trends in Wales

Automated Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -31
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 56 13 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.92% 2.47% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 2.92% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 46 10 58
10th Percentile £35,663 £42,954 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £48,750 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,375 £63,438
90th Percentile £74,533 £70,975 £70,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,251 445 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.16% 84.44% 71.75%
Number of salaries quoted 868 279 1,176
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,360 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Wales

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Wales over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
South Wales -10 36 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Wales - 13 £42,500 - 1
North Wales - 4 £44,000 -
Mid Wales - 3 £65,000 -
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) CANalyzer
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) Serverless
5 7 (12.50%) PaaS
5 7 (12.50%) SaaS
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.93%) GitHub
7 4 (7.14%) dbt
7 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.36%) IaaS
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (3.57%) GCP
10 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.79%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.79%) Datadog
10 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) Adabas
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
2 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Git
2 7 (12.50%) Selenium
3 5 (8.93%) Cypress.io
3 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.93%) JMeter
4 4 (7.14%) JIRA
5 3 (5.36%) CANoe
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) Postman
5 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.57%) GitLab
6 2 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (3.57%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.79%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.79%) Mocha
7 1 (1.79%) MSTest
7 1 (1.79%) RSpec
7 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Senior
2 17 (30.36%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 8 (14.29%) Lead
3 8 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Tester
4 7 (12.50%) Development Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Test Development Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Test Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Automation Tester
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Tester
6 5 (8.93%) Test Leader
7 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) Playwright
3 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.14%) React
4 4 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (5.36%) .NET
5 3 (5.36%) Jest
6 2 (3.57%) HTML
6 2 (3.57%) HTML5
6 2 (3.57%) REST
7 1 (1.79%) CSS
7 1 (1.79%) CSS3
7 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.79%) JPA
7 1 (1.79%) RESTful
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless Framework
7 1 (1.79%) Web Services
7 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Replication
4 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Robotics
5 1 (1.79%) SCADA
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Agile
2 23 (41.07%) CI/CD
3 21 (37.50%) DevOps
4 18 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 17 (30.36%) Software Testing
6 16 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
8 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
9 10 (17.86%) BDD
9 10 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (16.07%) SDLC
10 9 (16.07%) Test Strategy
11 8 (14.29%) Line Management
11 8 (14.29%) Scrum
12 7 (12.50%) SDET
13 6 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
13 6 (10.71%) Microservices
13 6 (10.71%) Non-Functional Testing
13 6 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) Java
2 17 (30.36%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.71%) C
4 6 (10.71%) C++
5 5 (8.93%) SQL
6 4 (7.14%) Bash
6 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.14%) Ruby
7 3 (5.36%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.79%) Natural
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) HNC
4 3 (5.36%) HND
4 3 (5.36%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.71%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) WCAG
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) OneLogin
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle