Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 752 856
Rank change year-on-year -77 +104 -208
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 36 149 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 24 131 285
10th Percentile £27,675 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £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%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in England

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 Test Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +57 14 £55,000 - 1
South East -21 8 £37,500 -25.00% 3
North of England +16 4 £42,500 -19.05% 3
South West -38 4 £58,750 +23.68% 2
East of England +1 3 £37,500 +2.74% 1
Midlands -27 3 £40,000 -38.46% 4
West Midlands -28 3 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Yorkshire +53 2 £42,500 -15.00%
North West -7 2 £43,750 -2.78% 3
Test Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (61.11%) Agile
3 17 (47.22%) QA
3 17 (47.22%) Selenium
4 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 14 (38.89%) Python
5 14 (38.89%) Cucumber
5 14 (38.89%) Test Strategy
6 12 (33.33%) BDD
6 12 (33.33%) Java
7 11 (30.56%) AWS
8 10 (27.78%) JIRA
8 10 (27.78%) Test Scripting
9 9 (25.00%) ISTQB
9 9 (25.00%) TDD
10 8 (22.22%) Software Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Azure
10 8 (22.22%) DevOps
10 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
10 8 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (19.44%) API Testing
11 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
11 7 (19.44%) Finance
12 6 (16.67%) C#
12 6 (16.67%) Manual Testing
12 6 (16.67%) SpecFlow
12 6 (16.67%) QA Automation
13 5 (13.89%) SDLC

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 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Datadog
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Selenium
2 14 (38.89%) Cucumber
3 10 (27.78%) JIRA
4 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (16.67%) SpecFlow
6 5 (13.89%) Postman
7 4 (11.11%) JBehave
7 4 (11.11%) TeamCity
8 3 (8.33%) Appium
8 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
9 2 (5.56%) Git
9 2 (5.56%) UI Automator
10 1 (2.78%) HP UFT
10 1 (2.78%) JMeter
10 1 (2.78%) JUnit
10 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (2.78%) Subversion
10 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (2.78%) TestComplete
General
1 8 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Retail
5 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Automotive
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Playwright
2 4 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.56%) Spring
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) Behat
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) Puppeteer
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
4 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.78%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Bitcoin
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Android
2 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (61.11%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (38.89%) Test Strategy
5 12 (33.33%) BDD
6 10 (27.78%) Test Scripting
7 9 (25.00%) TDD
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (22.22%) DevOps
8 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.22%) Software Testing
9 7 (19.44%) API Testing
10 6 (16.67%) Manual Testing
10 6 (16.67%) QA Automation
11 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (13.89%) Regression Testing
11 5 (13.89%) SDLC
11 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
12 4 (11.11%) Scrum
12 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (11.11%) ISEB
2 4 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (47.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) YouTube
2 1 (2.78%) CA Agile Central