Automation Test Lead Jobs in England

Test Automation Leader
UK > England

The median Test Automation Leader salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 847 863 1097
Rank change year-on-year +16 +234 -296
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 12 32 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.013% 0.039% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.043% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 66
10th Percentile - £61,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 89,619 75,210 137,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 65,535 49,495 75,192
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +0.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Test Lead in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Test Lead in England

Automation Test Lead
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Test Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
South West -26 6 £85,000 +25.93%
Midlands -32 3 £60,000 -7.69%
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England +16 2 £60,000 -33.33% 1
North West -17 2 £60,000 -33.33% 1
South East -16 1 - - 1
Automation Test Lead
UK

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Automation Test Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Selenium
3 7 (58.33%) QA
3 7 (58.33%) Git
4 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) Degree
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (33.33%) SpecFlow
6 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (33.33%) BrowserStack
6 4 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (33.33%) Backtesting
6 4 (33.33%) Postman
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 4 (33.33%) JIRA
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) AWS
6 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Risk Management

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 4 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Selenium
2 7 (58.33%) Git
3 6 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 4 (33.33%) JMeter
4 4 (33.33%) Postman
4 4 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (8.33%) Appium
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Playwright
1 3 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Backtesting
4 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA