Senior Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 844 1123
Rank change year-on-year -13 +279 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 4 29 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.035% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.038% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 50
10th Percentile £43,250 - £44,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £61,875 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -4.55% -20.38% +25.60%

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 88,935 75,643 138,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 91.23% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 65,011 49,623 75,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £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%

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Senior Test Automation Engineer in England

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 +64 1 £70,000 +27.27%
North of England +7 1 £42,500 -46.88%
South East -6 1 - - 1
North West -8 1 £42,500 -63.04%
South West -40 1 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Senior Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Appium
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Firebase
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (25.00%) TestRail
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) WireMock
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria

Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Firebase
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) mountebank
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central