Test Automation Jobs in Watford

Automated Testing
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 14 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 1.38% 4.93% 13.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 6.19% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £54,875 £37,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £43,125 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -32.35% +47.83%
75th Percentile £73,438 £63,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £76,625 - £97,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -28.13% +48.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 226 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 94.48% 79.58% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 76 168 209
10th Percentile £31,875 £26,250 £32,450
25th Percentile £39,821 £36,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -21.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £86,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Watford

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Watford

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Watford

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Watford over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Watford

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) NestJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA