Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 37 36
Rank change year-on-year -65 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 663 2,309 6,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.80% 6.87% 9.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 7.20% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 481 1,221 2,305
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.57% -1.32%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,520 32,059 66,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.99% 95.35% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,899 23,123 34,077
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,180 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London -7 114 £80,000 +3.23% 21
South London -25 43 £57,500 -8.00% 3
West London -62 10 £63,750 +27.50% 9
East London +13 3 £80,000 +77.78% 57
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 29 (4.37%) Confluence
2 16 (2.41%) Apache
2 16 (2.41%) IIS
3 8 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Findur
4 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 246 (37.10%) AWS
2 210 (31.67%) Azure
3 93 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (11.16%) GCP
5 51 (7.69%) Serverless
6 49 (7.39%) Amazon S3
7 48 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (6.33%) SaaS
9 35 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (4.98%) GitHub
11 29 (4.37%) Power Platform
12 21 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.02%) PaaS
14 18 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.41%) OpenShift
16 15 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (1.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.71%) DNS
2 14 (2.11%) Internet
3 11 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.51%) Firewall
5 9 (1.36%) SNMP
5 9 (1.36%) tcpdump
6 6 (0.90%) HTTP
7 4 (0.60%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) SMTP
8 2 (0.30%) SSH
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
9 1 (0.15%) Network Security
9 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.15%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) VoIP
9 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.24%) NoSQL
3 43 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 39 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 38 (5.73%) MySQL
6 31 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.11%) Big Data
11 11 (1.66%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.51%) DB2
13 9 (1.36%) Metadata
13 9 (1.36%) Power BI
14 8 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.75%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.75%) SAP HANA
16 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 114 (17.19%) Git
2 82 (12.37%) Selenium
3 67 (10.11%) JIRA
4 66 (9.95%) Jenkins
5 43 (6.49%) Cucumber
6 41 (6.18%) JUnit
7 29 (4.37%) Cypress.io
8 28 (4.22%) GitLab
9 26 (3.92%) WebDriver
10 25 (3.77%) JMeter
11 23 (3.47%) REST Assured
11 23 (3.47%) TeamCity
12 21 (3.17%) Postman
12 21 (3.17%) TestNG
13 19 (2.87%) Visual Studio
14 15 (2.26%) SpecFlow
15 12 (1.81%) SoapUI
16 10 (1.51%) Appium
16 10 (1.51%) SonarQube
17 9 (1.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 184 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 167 (25.19%) Finance
3 98 (14.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (9.80%) Law
5 63 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (9.35%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.79%) Banking
8 38 (5.73%) Marketing
9 29 (4.37%) Front Office
10 27 (4.07%) Retail
11 18 (2.71%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.96%) Legal
13 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.81%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.06%) Back Office
15 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.06%) Police
16 5 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.45%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 159 (23.98%) Developer
2 147 (22.17%) Senior
3 104 (15.69%) Lead
4 101 (15.23%) Software Engineer
5 51 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (6.18%) Senior Developer
7 39 (5.88%) Tester
8 35 (5.28%) Analyst
9 34 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 31 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 30 (4.52%) .NET Developer
11 30 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.22%) Full Stack Developer
13 26 (3.92%) QA Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.17%) Java Developer
14 21 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.02%) Automation Tester
16 19 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (21.72%) .NET
2 105 (15.84%) REST
3 94 (14.18%) React
4 56 (8.45%) Web Services
5 53 (7.99%) AngularJS
6 50 (7.54%) JSON
7 49 (7.39%) Spring
8 41 (6.18%) HTML
9 40 (6.03%) Node.js
10 39 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 39 (5.88%) CSS
11 37 (5.58%) ASP.NET
11 37 (5.58%) RESTful
12 35 (5.28%) XML
13 29 (4.37%) Spring Boot
14 28 (4.22%) .NET Core
15 27 (4.07%) Playwright
16 19 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (2.87%) Redux
17 17 (2.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.37%) Mobile App
2 28 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.77%) Blog
4 24 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.41%) Management Information System
10 15 (2.26%) Hedge funds
11 14 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.81%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.66%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.66%) e-Learning
15 10 (1.51%) Clustering
16 9 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 8 (1.21%) Client/Server
17 8 (1.21%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.30%) Linux
2 26 (3.92%) Windows
3 22 (3.32%) Android
4 20 (3.02%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.26%) Unix
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (49.62%) Agile
2 240 (36.20%) DevOps
3 204 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 174 (26.24%) Software Engineering
5 138 (20.81%) Microservices
6 118 (17.80%) Software Testing
7 117 (17.65%) Scrum
8 116 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (17.04%) Mentoring
10 101 (15.23%) TDD
11 94 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
12 83 (12.52%) Test Strategy
13 81 (12.22%) Unit Testing
14 77 (11.61%) Coaching
15 75 (11.31%) Containerisation
16 72 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (10.26%) SDET
18 67 (10.11%) Computer Science
19 62 (9.35%) Code Quality
20 61 (9.20%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 215 (32.43%) Java
2 182 (27.45%) Python
3 155 (23.38%) SQL
4 153 (23.08%) C#
5 133 (20.06%) JavaScript
6 88 (13.27%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.77%) Perl
9 23 (3.47%) Go
10 21 (3.17%) Bash
10 21 (3.17%) C++
11 20 (3.02%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.41%) Scala
13 15 (2.26%) PHP
14 12 (1.81%) Rust
15 10 (1.51%) Bicep
15 10 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.51%) Swift
15 10 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.21%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (12.67%) Degree
2 50 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (7.09%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.11%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.51%) ISEB
8 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.60%) ISEB Practitioner
11 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.30%) MCAD
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (19.61%) QA
2 16 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.36%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.90%) SLA
7 5 (0.75%) GDPR
8 4 (0.60%) NCSC
8 4 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.45%) ITGC
9 3 (0.45%) JTAG
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (14.63%) Docker
2 9 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Firmware
4 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.30%) Varnish
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 117 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 113 (17.04%) Terraform
3 45 (6.79%) Ansible
4 27 (4.07%) Puppet
5 20 (3.02%) Grafana
6 16 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.96%) Nagios
8 11 (1.66%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.36%) Graphite
9 9 (1.36%) HAProxy
9 9 (1.36%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.21%) Packer
10 8 (1.21%) Salt
11 5 (0.75%) Istio
11 5 (0.75%) Kibana
12 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.45%) Control-M
12 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.45%) logstash
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.22%) Google
3 22 (3.32%) Oracle
4 14 (2.11%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.11%) IBM
5 13 (1.96%) Databricks
6 12 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.81%) YouTube
7 11 (1.66%) Sybase
7 11 (1.66%) UiPath
8 8 (1.21%) Xero
9 7 (1.06%) SAP
9 7 (1.06%) Splunk
10 6 (0.90%) Amplitude
10 6 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.90%) Blue Prism
10 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.75%) New Relic
11 5 (0.75%) VMware