QA Automation Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 814 640 739
Rank change year-on-year -174 +99 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 47 237 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 44 170 214
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,063 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £77,750 £72,625 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

QA 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,844 79,154 138,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.92% 95.46% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55,725 48,396 74,307
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,259
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,875 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in England

QA Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London -37 23 £60,000 +14.29% 4
South East -14 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
North of England +4 6 £52,500 -12.50% 1
North West -11 6 £52,500 -16.00%
South West -37 2 £66,250 +1.92%
East of England -39 2 £38,000 - 1
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
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 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 13 (27.66%) AWS
3 11 (23.40%) SaaS
4 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) BrowserStack
6 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 2 (4.26%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (46.81%) Selenium
2 21 (44.68%) Cypress.io
3 16 (34.04%) Cucumber
4 15 (31.91%) Postman
5 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
6 8 (17.02%) Git
7 7 (14.89%) JIRA
7 7 (14.89%) JMeter
8 6 (12.77%) Appium
8 6 (12.77%) REST Assured
9 5 (10.64%) JUnit
9 5 (10.64%) SpecFlow
10 4 (8.51%) GitLab
11 3 (6.38%) Mockito
11 3 (6.38%) WebDriver
12 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
12 2 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (4.26%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
12 2 (4.26%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.26%) Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Front Office
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (63.83%) QA Engineer
2 16 (34.04%) QA Automation Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Lead
5 6 (12.77%) QA Leader
5 6 (12.77%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Java Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Python Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) QA Tester
7 4 (8.51%) Tester
8 3 (6.38%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.38%) QA Automation Tester
9 2 (4.26%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (4.26%) QA Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Senior
9 2 (4.26%) Senior QA Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Playwright
2 8 (17.02%) .NET
3 4 (8.51%) React
3 4 (8.51%) Swagger
4 3 (6.38%) CSS
4 3 (6.38%) HTML
4 3 (6.38%) Spring
4 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.38%) Web Services
4 3 (6.38%) WireMock
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.26%) REST
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Jest
6 1 (2.13%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.13%) Puppeteer
6 1 (2.13%) PySpark
6 1 (2.13%) pytest
6 1 (2.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.26%) Derivative
2 2 (4.26%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.13%) Bitcoin
3 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Android
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (44.68%) Agile
2 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
3 18 (38.30%) API Testing
4 15 (31.91%) BDD
5 13 (27.66%) DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Test Strategy
7 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
7 9 (19.15%) Test Scripting
8 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
9 7 (14.89%) E-Commerce
9 7 (14.89%) Integration Testing
9 7 (14.89%) Performance Testing
9 7 (14.89%) SDET
9 7 (14.89%) TDD
10 6 (12.77%) Coaching
10 6 (12.77%) Manual Testing
10 6 (12.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (46.81%) Java
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.02%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.13%) VMware