Test Automation Jobs in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 42 37
Rank change year-on-year -55 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 71 159 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.13% 6.37% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 6.66% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 60 89 181
10th Percentile £39,287 £35,483 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +12.97% +6.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £69,478
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 advertised in Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,842 2,388 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 85.27% 95.60% 97.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 1,417 2,151
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,723 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,251 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.62% +15.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,647 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,419 £85,000
South West median annual salary £51,000 £54,222 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.94% +8.44% +8.70%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (7.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) npm
5 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.82%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.82%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CodeStar
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.41%) Big Data
5 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Selenium
2 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.90%) Git
4 11 (15.49%) JIRA
5 6 (8.45%) SpecFlow
6 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.63%) Maven
6 4 (5.63%) Moq
6 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.63%) Storybook
6 4 (5.63%) Zephyr
7 3 (4.23%) Appium
7 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.23%) JMeter
7 3 (4.23%) Postman
7 3 (4.23%) xUnit.net
8 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.82%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (1.41%) Gatling
9 1 (1.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.49%) Electronics
5 6 (8.45%) Automotive
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.63%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Legal
8 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Developer
2 18 (25.35%) Software Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Software Engineer
4 15 (21.13%) Senior
5 13 (18.31%) Lead
6 10 (14.08%) Test Leader
7 8 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Compiler Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) iOS Developer
10 4 (5.63%) iOS Software Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) QA Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Senior iOS Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) CRM Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) .NET
2 8 (11.27%) Node.js
3 7 (9.86%) React
4 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.63%) LLVM
5 4 (5.63%) RESTful
5 4 (5.63%) Sass
5 4 (5.63%) Spring
6 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (4.23%) Playwright
6 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.23%) Redux
7 2 (2.82%) Jest
8 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.41%) Vue
8 1 (1.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (5.63%) IoT
1 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
1 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.23%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.82%) iPhone
4 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.41%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Apple iOS
2 13 (18.31%) Windows
3 5 (7.04%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) DevOps
2 29 (40.85%) Agile
3 28 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (39.44%) Software Engineering
4 23 (32.39%) CI/CD
5 21 (29.58%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (28.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (22.54%) Line Management
8 15 (21.13%) iOS Development
9 13 (18.31%) Mentoring
10 11 (15.49%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (15.49%) Refactoring
10 11 (15.49%) System Integration Testing
10 11 (15.49%) User Experience
10 11 (15.49%) UX Design
11 10 (14.08%) Analytical Thinking
11 10 (14.08%) BDD
11 10 (14.08%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (12.68%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) Java
2 24 (33.80%) JavaScript
3 17 (23.94%) C#
4 13 (18.31%) SQL
5 8 (11.27%) Python
5 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) C
6 4 (5.63%) Go
6 4 (5.63%) Swift
7 3 (4.23%) Bash
7 3 (4.23%) C++
7 3 (4.23%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.27%) Ansible
3 7 (9.86%) Progress Chef
3 7 (9.86%) Terraform
4 3 (4.23%) Argo
4 3 (4.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Xamarin
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (4.23%) Blue Prism
4 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.23%) UiPath
5 2 (2.82%) Apple
5 2 (2.82%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.41%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.41%) Netlify
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) Veracode