Test Automation Jobs in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -81 +21 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 115 362 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.78% 7.43% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 7.87% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 84 69 143
10th Percentile £32,150 £38,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £90,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,901 £94,000 £75,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,072 4,601 6,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.34% 94.48% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,795 2,065 2,771
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the East of England

Test Automation
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire -34 49 £47,500 -29.63% 34
Hertfordshire -47 30 £57,500 -25.81% 8
Essex -16 23 £42,750 +8.15% 10
Norfolk -38 6 £30,250 -51.60% 1
Bedfordshire -22 4 £53,250 +42.00% 1
Suffolk -16 3 £41,250 -54.17% 3
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (3.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Simulink
3 1 (0.87%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.17%) GitHub
2 12 (10.43%) AWS
3 5 (4.35%) Azure
4 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.74%) npm
4 2 (1.74%) SaaS
4 2 (1.74%) Serverless
4 2 (1.74%) Yarn
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) SSH
1 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.48%) RS-232
3 3 (2.61%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.87%) ATM
5 1 (0.87%) Broadband
5 1 (0.87%) DHCP
5 1 (0.87%) DNS
5 1 (0.87%) Firewall
5 1 (0.87%) HTTP
5 1 (0.87%) VLAN
5 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) MySQL
2 9 (7.83%) MariaDB
3 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) JIRA
2 16 (13.91%) Git
3 14 (12.17%) Appium
4 11 (9.57%) UI Automator
5 10 (8.70%) Jenkins
6 7 (6.09%) Selenium
7 6 (5.22%) Trac
8 5 (4.35%) Zephyr
9 4 (3.48%) Subversion
10 3 (2.61%) LabVIEW
10 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.74%) JMeter
12 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.87%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.78%) Automotive
3 16 (13.91%) Electronics
4 11 (9.57%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Retail
6 6 (5.22%) Finance
7 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.61%) Games
9 3 (2.61%) Marketing
10 2 (1.74%) Back Office
10 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.74%) Wearables
11 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (25.22%) Developer
2 17 (14.78%) Test Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Lead
5 13 (11.30%) PHP Developer
6 10 (8.70%) Team Leader
7 9 (7.83%) Analyst
7 9 (7.83%) Senior
8 8 (6.96%) Tester
9 7 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Test Analyst
10 6 (5.22%) Magento Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Software Test Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Embedded Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
11 5 (4.35%) Software Tester
12 4 (3.48%) QA Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) HTML
2 21 (18.26%) CSS
3 11 (9.57%) Node.js
4 10 (8.70%) HTML5
5 9 (7.83%) Django
6 7 (6.09%) CSS3
7 6 (5.22%) .NET
7 6 (5.22%) OpenLayers
8 5 (4.35%) Laravel
8 5 (4.35%) Sass
8 5 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (4.35%) Vue
9 4 (3.48%) LLVM
9 4 (3.48%) React
9 4 (3.48%) Yocto
10 3 (2.61%) OpenID
10 3 (2.61%) Playwright
10 3 (2.61%) SAML
11 2 (1.74%) MSMQ
11 2 (1.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.09%) IoT
2 7 (6.09%) Smartphone
3 5 (4.35%) Analogue Electronics
3 5 (4.35%) Robotics
4 4 (3.48%) Device Driver
5 3 (2.61%) BBC
5 3 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (0.87%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.87%) FPGA
7 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.57%) Linux
2 10 (8.70%) Windows
3 8 (6.96%) Mac OS
4 7 (6.09%) Android
5 6 (5.22%) Unix
6 4 (3.48%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (3.48%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.74%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) Agile
2 36 (31.30%) Software Testing
3 32 (27.83%) Software Engineering
4 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.52%) Manual Testing
6 18 (15.65%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (13.91%) DevOps
8 15 (13.04%) Test Strategy
9 14 (12.17%) Test Scripting
9 14 (12.17%) User Experience
10 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
11 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.57%) E-Commerce
11 11 (9.57%) Integration Testing
11 11 (9.57%) OO
11 11 (9.57%) Validation
12 10 (8.70%) Project Management
12 10 (8.70%) TDD
13 8 (6.96%) ERP
13 8 (6.96%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.70%) Python
2 24 (20.87%) PHP
3 22 (19.13%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.17%) C
5 12 (10.43%) C#
6 8 (6.96%) Bash
7 7 (6.09%) Java
8 6 (5.22%) MATLAB
8 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.35%) SQL
10 4 (3.48%) C++
11 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.87%) Groovy
12 1 (0.87%) Perl
12 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (30.43%) Degree
2 9 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) CCNA
7 1 (0.87%) CCNP
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.87%) HNC
7 1 (0.87%) ISEB
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.87%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.87%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.87%) JTAG
2 1 (0.87%) NIST
2 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (5.22%) Ansible
2 5 (4.35%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.87%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.87%) Iperf
5 1 (0.87%) Nmap
5 1 (0.87%) Packer
5 1 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.74%) Google
2 2 (1.74%) IBM
3 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.87%) Apple
3 1 (0.87%) BT
3 1 (0.87%) HP
3 1 (0.87%) MathWorks
3 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.87%) Splunk