Automation Tester Jobs in England

Automation Tester
UK > England

The median Automation Tester salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 760 779 785
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -158
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 76 130 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.16% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43 118 233
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in England

Automation Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East 0 43 £62,500 +8.70% 2
London +111 19 £60,000 -4.00% 2
North of England +47 14 £46,250 -2.63% 4
North West +7 9 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Yorkshire +78 4 £45,000 +8.43% 3
West Midlands 0 2 £45,000 -23.40% 2
East of England -3 2 £49,500 -5.71% 2
Midlands -15 2 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -7 1 - -
Automation Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 60 (78.95%) Selenium
3 54 (71.05%) Agile
4 39 (51.32%) Security Cleared
5 38 (50.00%) QA
6 32 (42.11%) Java
7 29 (38.16%) Test Scripting
8 26 (34.21%) Cucumber
8 26 (34.21%) Mentoring
9 25 (32.89%) Coaching
9 25 (32.89%) API Testing
9 25 (32.89%) Technical Analysis
9 25 (32.89%) Requirements Analysis
9 25 (32.89%) CI/CD
9 25 (32.89%) Test Assurance
10 23 (30.26%) Collaborative Working
10 23 (30.26%) REST Assured
10 23 (30.26%) Software Testing
10 23 (30.26%) Aerospace
10 23 (30.26%) Scrum
10 23 (30.26%) DV Cleared
11 21 (27.63%) WebDriver
11 21 (27.63%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (26.32%) BDD
13 19 (25.00%) TestNG
13 19 (25.00%) JavaScript
13 19 (25.00%) JUnit
14 18 (23.68%) SDET
14 18 (23.68%) Scenario Testing
15 17 (22.37%) Code Quality

Automation Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (19.74%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.53%) GitHub
1 8 (10.53%) SaaS
2 5 (6.58%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) AWS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.32%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.32%) Power BI
1 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (78.95%) Selenium
2 26 (34.21%) Cucumber
3 23 (30.26%) REST Assured
4 21 (27.63%) WebDriver
5 19 (25.00%) JUnit
5 19 (25.00%) TestNG
6 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
6 10 (13.16%) SoapUI
7 8 (10.53%) Appium
8 7 (9.21%) JMeter
8 7 (9.21%) SpecFlow
9 6 (7.89%) JIRA
9 6 (7.89%) Postman
10 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (5.26%) Git
10 4 (5.26%) Protractor
10 4 (5.26%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.95%) TeamCity
12 2 (2.63%) eggPlant
General
1 23 (30.26%) Aerospace
2 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Front Office
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) REST
2 16 (21.05%) WireMock
3 15 (19.74%) Apache Commons
3 15 (19.74%) Guava
3 15 (19.74%) Java Concurrency
4 7 (9.21%) Gherkin
5 6 (7.89%) .NET
6 4 (5.26%) RESTful
6 4 (5.26%) Web Services
7 3 (3.95%) SOAP
8 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.63%) Playwright
9 1 (1.32%) ADO
9 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.32%) CSS
9 1 (1.32%) PySpark
9 1 (1.32%) React
9 1 (1.32%) Swagger
9 1 (1.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.26%) Client/Server
1 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 54 (71.05%) Agile
3 29 (38.16%) Test Scripting
4 26 (34.21%) Mentoring
5 25 (32.89%) API Testing
5 25 (32.89%) CI/CD
5 25 (32.89%) Coaching
5 25 (32.89%) Requirements Analysis
5 25 (32.89%) Technical Analysis
5 25 (32.89%) Test Assurance
6 23 (30.26%) Collaborative Working
6 23 (30.26%) Scrum
6 23 (30.26%) Software Testing
7 21 (27.63%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (26.32%) BDD
9 18 (23.68%) Scenario Testing
9 18 (23.68%) SDET
10 17 (22.37%) Code Quality
11 15 (19.74%) Containerisation
11 15 (19.74%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Java
2 19 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (13.16%) C#
4 9 (11.84%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Python
6 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.32%) VB
6 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (51.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (30.26%) DV Cleared
3 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.95%) ISEB
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (19.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (1.32%) Databricks
2 1 (1.32%) HP