Test Automation Job Trends in Woking

Automated Testing
Surrey > Woking

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Woking requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 39 23
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Woking 3.08% 4.64% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 5.49% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 -
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Woking

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 Woking.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 164 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Woking 95.38% 84.54% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 53 137 75
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £34,580
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £96,250 £90,000
Surrey median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% -9.57% +4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Woking

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Woking

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Woking

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Woking 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GxP