Test Automation Jobs in the South West

Automated Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -61 -15 +18
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 229 359 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.30% 5.46% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 5.77% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 192 370
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,175
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £62,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,675
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,072 6,218 8,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.00% 94.50% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,777 3,484 5,006
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,507 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,222 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +8.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £80,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -55 71 £58,750 -2.08% 19
Devon +6 65 £60,000 +50.00% 12
Dorset -2 39 £52,500 -7.08% 10
Gloucestershire -45 38 £65,000 +23.81% 13
Wiltshire -31 12 £51,750 -23.33% 6
Somerset -25 2 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (5.68%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Apache
3 6 (2.62%) SAS
4 4 (1.75%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.28%) AWS
2 26 (11.35%) Azure
3 13 (5.68%) npm
4 11 (4.80%) GitHub
5 7 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.62%) GCP
7 5 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.18%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.75%) OCI
9 3 (1.31%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.31%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Route 53
9 3 (1.31%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.87%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.28%) 5G
1 35 (15.28%) SD-WAN
1 35 (15.28%) WAN
2 9 (3.93%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.49%) DNS
3 8 (3.49%) HTTP
3 8 (3.49%) Internet
3 8 (3.49%) SMTP
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.99%) MySQL
2 13 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.24%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.62%) Power BI
5 6 (2.62%) Tableau
6 5 (2.18%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.87%) DB2
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) GIS
9 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (14.85%) Selenium
2 33 (14.41%) Git
3 32 (13.97%) JIRA
4 31 (13.54%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.99%) Cucumber
6 13 (5.68%) Storybook
7 11 (4.80%) TeamCity
8 10 (4.37%) Postman
9 9 (3.93%) Subversion
10 8 (3.49%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.49%) LabVIEW
10 8 (3.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (3.06%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.62%) SpecFlow
13 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.18%) JMeter
14 4 (1.75%) Appium
14 4 (1.75%) Maven
14 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio
14 4 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.51%) Finance
3 58 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.28%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (13.97%) Electronics
6 23 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (8.30%) Law
8 16 (6.99%) Banking
9 14 (6.11%) Financial Institution
9 14 (6.11%) Public Sector
10 13 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (4.37%) Investment Banking
12 8 (3.49%) Legal
13 6 (2.62%) Automotive
13 6 (2.62%) Retail
14 3 (1.31%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.87%) Games
15 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 66 (28.82%) Developer
2 43 (18.78%) Senior
3 30 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 28 (12.23%) Lead
5 27 (11.79%) Software Developer
6 25 (10.92%) Test Engineer
7 17 (7.42%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.99%) GNSS Engineer
8 16 (6.99%) RF Engineer
9 14 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Project Leader
10 11 (4.80%) QA Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.80%) Technical Project Leader
11 10 (4.37%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Test Leader
12 9 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 9 (3.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.54%) .NET
2 23 (10.04%) Node.js
3 16 (6.99%) React
4 15 (6.55%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.68%) Gherkin
5 13 (5.68%) Sass
6 12 (5.24%) Spring
7 11 (4.80%) CSS
7 11 (4.80%) HTML
8 10 (4.37%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.93%) LAMP
10 8 (3.49%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.49%) pytest
10 8 (3.49%) RESTful
10 8 (3.49%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.06%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.06%) jQuery
11 7 (3.06%) Laravel
11 7 (3.06%) SVG
12 6 (2.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.66%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (10.48%) GNSS
3 15 (6.55%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.80%) FPGA
4 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.37%) Mobile App
5 10 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.49%) CUDA
6 8 (3.49%) MicroBlaze
6 8 (3.49%) Robotics
6 8 (3.49%) Tandem
6 8 (3.49%) VHDL
7 7 (3.06%) Animation
7 7 (3.06%) Video Editing
8 6 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.62%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.62%) Market Risk
9 5 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.75%) IoT
10 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.09%) Linux
2 42 (18.34%) Windows
3 21 (9.17%) Apple iOS
4 16 (6.99%) Unix
5 8 (3.49%) Debian
5 8 (3.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.75%) Android
7 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (50.22%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (37.55%) Agile
3 59 (25.76%) B2B
3 59 (25.76%) DevOps
4 57 (24.89%) Computer Science
5 56 (24.45%) Software Engineering
6 52 (22.71%) CI/CD
7 49 (21.40%) Mentoring
8 43 (18.78%) Scrum
9 42 (18.34%) Project Delivery
10 41 (17.90%) Containerisation
11 37 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
12 35 (15.28%) Test Assurance
13 34 (14.85%) End-to-End Testing
14 32 (13.97%) Coaching
15 27 (11.79%) Time Management
16 24 (10.48%) Continuous Delivery
17 23 (10.04%) Defect Tracking
17 23 (10.04%) Validation
18 22 (9.61%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.69%) Java
2 65 (28.38%) Python
3 50 (21.83%) JavaScript
4 33 (14.41%) C++
5 31 (13.54%) C#
6 27 (11.79%) C
7 23 (10.04%) SQL
8 19 (8.30%) MATLAB
9 18 (7.86%) TypeScript
10 14 (6.11%) PHP
11 12 (5.24%) Bash
12 8 (3.49%) Go
12 8 (3.49%) Kotlin
12 8 (3.49%) Perl
12 8 (3.49%) Rust
12 8 (3.49%) Tcl
12 8 (3.49%) VB
13 6 (2.62%) R
13 6 (2.62%) Ruby
13 6 (2.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (45.41%) Degree
2 16 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.49%) HND
6 6 (2.62%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.18%) ISEB
8 4 (1.75%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) HNC
10 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.44%) MCSA
11 1 (0.44%) MCSD
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.59%) QA
2 19 (8.30%) PMO
3 7 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.31%) JTAG
5 2 (0.87%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (12.23%) Docker
2 18 (7.86%) Firmware
3 16 (6.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.68%) Terraform
3 10 (4.37%) Ansible
4 9 (3.93%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.18%) Puppet
6 3 (1.31%) Argo
6 3 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.87%) Nagios
7 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.80%) Xamarin
3 9 (3.93%) UiPath
4 8 (3.49%) Altera
4 8 (3.49%) Green Hills
4 8 (3.49%) Motorola
4 8 (3.49%) Xilinx
5 7 (3.06%) Oracle
6 6 (2.62%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.62%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.62%) Google
6 6 (2.62%) Pega
6 6 (2.62%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.31%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (1.31%) Blue Prism
7 3 (1.31%) Coverity
7 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.31%) IBM
7 3 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.87%) Apple