Test Automation Jobs in the South East

Automated Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -52 -9 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 513 904 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.90% 6.54% 8.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 6.92% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 294 451 1,010
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £49,375 £45,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,438 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £82,500 £81,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,744 13,059 19,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.22% 94.40% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,127 7,692 11,836
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,957 £85,000 £82,500
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 the South East

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South East

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Hampshire -25 169 £54,000 -10.00% 22
Thames Valley -74 149 £60,000 -2.44% 38
Surrey -1 127 £47,500 -17.39% 13
Berkshire -56 76 £62,500 -3.85% 13
Buckinghamshire -6 43 £47,500 +2.15% 18
Oxfordshire -53 30 £60,000 +4.35% 9
East Sussex -18 24 £70,000 +16.67% 2
West Sussex -38 19 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Kent -14 17 £65,000 -7.14%
Middlesex -18 3 £42,500 -44.26%
Sussex - 2 £56,000 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.34%) Apache
3 9 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) TWiki
6 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.78%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.19%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 14 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 153 (29.82%) Azure
2 85 (16.57%) SaaS
3 71 (13.84%) AWS
4 65 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (4.09%) GitHub
7 17 (3.31%) IaaS
7 17 (3.31%) Serverless
8 16 (3.12%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.92%) PaaS
10 11 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.56%) Pulumi
12 7 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.36%) Azure Functions
13 6 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (0.97%) GCP
15 4 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.48%) 5G
1 23 (4.48%) Bluetooth
1 23 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
1 23 (4.48%) Wireless
2 22 (4.29%) GSM
2 22 (4.29%) ISDN
2 22 (4.29%) LTE
2 22 (4.29%) PSTN
2 22 (4.29%) UMTS
3 18 (3.51%) Network Security
4 10 (1.95%) HTTP
5 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.78%) Firewall
6 4 (0.78%) Internet
7 3 (0.58%) Broadband
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 2 (0.39%) RS-485
9 1 (0.19%) 4G
9 1 (0.19%) Modbus
9 1 (0.19%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 44 (8.58%) NoSQL
3 24 (4.68%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.56%) MySQL
6 7 (1.36%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.97%) Redis
8 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.58%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.39%) Big Data
9 2 (0.39%) DB2
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.19%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.19%) GIS
10 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 130 (25.34%) Selenium
2 65 (12.67%) Git
3 60 (11.70%) Jenkins
4 56 (10.92%) JIRA
5 29 (5.65%) Cucumber
6 27 (5.26%) Visual Studio
7 25 (4.87%) NUnit
8 23 (4.48%) Postman
8 23 (4.48%) WebDriver
9 22 (4.29%) Ant
9 22 (4.29%) LabVIEW
10 20 (3.90%) GitLab
11 19 (3.70%) REST Assured
12 17 (3.31%) JMeter
12 17 (3.31%) JUnit
12 17 (3.31%) TeamCity
13 15 (2.92%) TestRail
14 14 (2.73%) Cypress.io
14 14 (2.73%) Jasmine
14 14 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.92%) Aerospace
3 40 (7.80%) Finance
4 31 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.65%) Law
5 29 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 28 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.48%) Retail
8 21 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.12%) Marketing
10 11 (2.14%) Legal
11 9 (1.75%) Electronics
12 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.56%) Police
13 7 (1.36%) Back Office
13 7 (1.36%) Multimedia
14 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.58%) Wearables
16 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (22.22%) Developer
2 61 (11.89%) Software Engineer
3 57 (11.11%) Tester
4 49 (9.55%) Senior
5 44 (8.58%) Test Engineer
6 43 (8.38%) Analyst
7 42 (8.19%) Automation Tester
8 34 (6.63%) Test Analyst
9 31 (6.04%) Software Developer
10 28 (5.46%) Lead
11 27 (5.26%) QA Engineer
12 26 (5.07%) Software Manager
13 24 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
15 22 (4.29%) C++ Developer
16 21 (4.09%) C++ Software Engineer
16 21 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
17 20 (3.90%) Azure Developer
17 20 (3.90%) Software Engineering Manager
18 19 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (23.20%) .NET
2 48 (9.36%) RESTful
3 41 (7.99%) .NET Core
4 40 (7.80%) React
5 35 (6.82%) CSS
6 31 (6.04%) Web Services
7 28 (5.46%) ASP.NET
7 28 (5.46%) HTML
8 27 (5.26%) AngularJS
9 26 (5.07%) Middleware
9 26 (5.07%) REST
10 22 (4.29%) Hibernate
10 22 (4.29%) Vue
11 20 (3.90%) JSON
12 17 (3.31%) .NET Framework
12 17 (3.31%) Entity Framework
13 16 (3.12%) jQuery
14 15 (2.92%) Laravel
14 15 (2.92%) Node.js
14 15 (2.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.99%) Satnav
2 22 (4.29%) Acoustics
2 22 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.90%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.36%) Life Science
10 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.17%) IoT
11 6 (1.17%) PKI
12 4 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 77 (15.01%) Linux
2 55 (10.72%) Windows
3 18 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.58%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) CentOS
7 2 (0.39%) Debian
7 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (54.78%) Agile
2 184 (35.87%) DevOps
3 142 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (24.95%) Software Engineering
5 110 (21.44%) Software Testing
6 109 (21.25%) CI/CD
7 93 (18.13%) Actionable Insight
8 88 (17.15%) Scrum
9 82 (15.98%) Test Scripting
10 75 (14.62%) Mentoring
11 67 (13.06%) Continuous Integration
12 66 (12.87%) Coaching
13 63 (12.28%) Computer Science
14 62 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
15 55 (10.72%) Collaborative Working
15 55 (10.72%) Microservices
16 53 (10.33%) Design Patterns
17 49 (9.55%) Code Quality
18 47 (9.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 47 (9.16%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 160 (31.19%) SQL
2 133 (25.93%) C#
3 107 (20.86%) Java
4 94 (18.32%) Python
5 70 (13.65%) JavaScript
6 48 (9.36%) C++
7 30 (5.85%) C
7 30 (5.85%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.07%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.12%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.92%) PHP
11 13 (2.53%) Bash
12 9 (1.75%) Bicep
13 8 (1.56%) Ruby
13 8 (1.56%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.97%) Go
15 4 (0.78%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 152 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 122 (23.78%) Degree
3 106 (20.66%) SC Cleared
4 50 (9.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (8.58%) DV Cleared
6 43 (8.38%) ISTQB
7 21 (4.09%) DBS Check
8 18 (3.51%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.53%) ISEB
9 13 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (33.53%) QA
2 19 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
3 10 (1.95%) GDPR
3 10 (1.95%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (10.92%) Docker
2 11 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.17%) Firmware
3 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.58%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.41%) Ansible
3 26 (5.07%) Terraform
4 7 (1.36%) MIIS
5 4 (0.78%) Puppet
5 4 (0.78%) WMI
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.39%) Grafana
7 2 (0.39%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.19%) Nessus
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.34%) Xamarin
3 8 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.17%) SAP
4 6 (1.17%) VMware
5 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle
6 4 (0.78%) Palo Alto
6 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.58%) Conga
7 3 (0.58%) Google
7 3 (0.58%) IBM
7 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (0.58%) WSO2
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.39%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) Atmel
9 1 (0.19%) Freescale
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore