Test Automation Jobs in the East of England

Automated Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 94 45
Rank change year-on-year +27 -49 +51
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 136 43 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.00% 2.00% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 2.16% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 17 156
10th Percentile £41,875 £20,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,375 £79,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,578 1,989 5,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.95% 92.64% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 1,335 2,638
10th Percentile £30,445 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 October 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 October 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
Bedfordshire - 74 £50,000 - 3
Cambridgeshire +7 33 £53,897 -2.01% 11
Hertfordshire -29 13 £70,000 +233.33% 12
Essex -7 8 £60,000 +1.27% 5
Suffolk -8 4 £35,000 -41.67% 9
Norfolk -35 4 £27,500 -38.89% 1
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 1 (0.74%) CMS
1 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.62%) Azure
2 8 (5.88%) AWS
3 6 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (4.41%) Azure Functions
3 6 (4.41%) Serverless
4 2 (1.47%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (1.47%) Cloudflare
4 2 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 78 (57.35%) Wireless
2 77 (56.62%) 5G
2 77 (56.62%) Bluetooth
2 77 (56.62%) GSM
2 77 (56.62%) LTE
2 77 (56.62%) UMTS
2 77 (56.62%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) SAN
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
1 6 (4.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.94%) MySQL
3 3 (2.21%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.21%) Redis
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.47%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.47%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.74%) OLTP
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.41%) Visual Studio Team System
3 5 (3.68%) TestComplete
4 4 (2.94%) Postman
4 4 (2.94%) TestCafe
5 3 (2.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Appium
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (57.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 77 (56.62%) Automotive
3 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.41%) Games
6 4 (2.94%) Finance
7 3 (2.21%) Marketing
8 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.74%) iGaming
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 82 (60.29%) Test Engineer
2 77 (56.62%) EMC Engineer
2 77 (56.62%) EMC Test Engineer
3 13 (9.56%) Senior
4 12 (8.82%) Developer
5 11 (8.09%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (3.68%) Automation Tester
7 5 (3.68%) Tester
8 4 (2.94%) Analyst
8 4 (2.94%) Architect
8 4 (2.94%) PHP Developer
8 4 (2.94%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.21%) Development Manager
9 3 (2.21%) QA Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Quality Analyst
9 3 (2.21%) Software Development Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Software Manager
9 3 (2.21%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (1.47%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.82%) .NET
2 9 (6.62%) ASP.NET
3 7 (5.15%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.15%) HTML
4 6 (4.41%) .NET Core
4 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.41%) Apache Cordova
5 5 (3.68%) CSS
5 5 (3.68%) Node.js
5 5 (3.68%) Playwright
6 4 (2.94%) HTML5
6 4 (2.94%) Kafka
6 4 (2.94%) React
6 4 (2.94%) Web Services
7 3 (2.21%) CSS3
7 3 (2.21%) RESTful
8 2 (1.47%) Laravel
8 2 (1.47%) OpenCL
8 2 (1.47%) REST
8 2 (1.47%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 77 (56.62%) Satnav
2 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.41%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.21%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.47%) CUDA
5 2 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.47%) IoT
5 2 (1.47%) Life Science
5 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.47%) Mobile Games
5 2 (1.47%) Online Games
5 2 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.74%) BBC
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Linux
2 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.74%) Debian
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (63.24%) Continuous Improvement
1 86 (63.24%) Test Scripting
2 77 (56.62%) Data Management
3 27 (19.85%) Agile
4 23 (16.91%) Software Testing
5 20 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.03%) DevOps
8 13 (9.56%) Scrum
9 12 (8.82%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (5.88%) Design Patterns
10 8 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 7 (5.15%) Computer Science
11 7 (5.15%) Microservices
12 6 (4.41%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (4.41%) Code Quality
12 6 (4.41%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (4.41%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.24%) SQL
2 14 (10.29%) C#
3 12 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.35%) Python
5 9 (6.62%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.15%) C++
6 7 (5.15%) PHP
7 6 (4.41%) Java
8 2 (1.47%) ABAP
8 2 (1.47%) Bash
8 2 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 86 (63.24%) Degree
2 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.47%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) GlusterFS
3 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 77 (56.62%) EMC
2 2 (1.47%) Cadence
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.47%) SAP
2 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.74%) ANSYS
3 1 (0.74%) Aruba
3 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.74%) VMware