Test Automation Jobs in Wales

Automated Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 70 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.76% 2.99% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 4.00% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 58 54
10th Percentile £48,375 £42,500 £24,064
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,313 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £61,875 £63,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,575 £70,000 £71,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and 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 1,024 1,752 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.99% 74.81% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 588 1,163 805
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -7.22%
75th Percentile £65,188 £59,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,740
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Wales

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Wales over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

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 8 June 2025. 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 +5 19 £60,000 +26.32% 46
North Wales +8 2 £58,000 - 1
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) BGP
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) OSPF
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JMeter
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (9.09%) Appium
3 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.09%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) TestNG
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Grunt
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Test Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Test Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Head of QA
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) Java EE
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) Redux
3 1 (4.55%) Sass
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) Symfony
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Blog
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
2 14 (63.64%) Software Testing
3 13 (59.09%) Computer Science
4 10 (45.45%) Configuration Management
5 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 8 (36.36%) UML
5 8 (36.36%) Validation
5 8 (36.36%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
6 7 (31.82%) Code Quality
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
8 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.64%) BDD
9 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (13.64%) Scenario Testing
10 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
10 2 (9.09%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
1 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Ada
2 2 (9.09%) Groovy
2 2 (9.09%) Rust
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) C++
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
2 9 (40.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) CSQA
5 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 5 (22.73%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Iperf
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) Pega
2 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce