QA Automation Engineer Jobs

Automation QA Engineer
UK

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 821 967
Rank change year-on-year -40 +146 -225
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 35 154 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 33 133 220
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £76,750 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in the UK

QA Automation Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -36 30 £55,000 - 7
UK excluding London -40 23 £52,500 -3.67% 4
Work from Home +16 17 £56,250 -2.17% 6
London +42 11 £55,000 - 6
South East -8 5 £52,500 -8.70% 1
South West -28 5 £57,500 +76.92%
Scotland - 5 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands +3 3 £40,000 -26.61%
Midlands +2 3 £40,000 -26.61%
East of England -1 3 £37,500 -
North of England +30 2 £62,500 +38.89%
Yorkshire +88 1 - -
North West 0 1 £62,500 +38.89%

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, QA 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 featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) QA
1 35 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (71.43%) Agile
2 25 (71.43%) QA Automation
3 19 (54.29%) Java
4 16 (45.71%) Cucumber
5 15 (42.86%) Selenium
6 13 (37.14%) BDD
7 12 (34.29%) API Testing
8 11 (31.43%) Azure
8 11 (31.43%) Python
9 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
9 10 (28.57%) Test Strategy
9 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
10 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
10 9 (25.71%) Postman
10 9 (25.71%) AWS
11 8 (22.86%) Spring
11 8 (22.86%) TDD
12 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
12 7 (20.00%) SDLC
12 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
12 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
13 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (17.14%) Scrum
14 5 (14.29%) JMeter
14 5 (14.29%) JUnit
14 5 (14.29%) SQL

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (31.43%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Cucumber
2 15 (42.86%) Selenium
3 9 (25.71%) Postman
4 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (14.29%) Appium
5 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 5 (14.29%) JMeter
5 5 (14.29%) JUnit
6 4 (11.43%) Mockito
7 2 (5.71%) Git
7 2 (5.71%) GitLab
7 2 (5.71%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.86%) TestCafe
8 1 (2.86%) TestComplete
8 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Automotive
3 4 (11.43%) Electronics
3 4 (11.43%) Games
3 4 (11.43%) Health Technology
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Spring
2 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.43%) Playwright
3 4 (11.43%) Web Services
3 4 (11.43%) WireMock
4 2 (5.71%) React
5 1 (2.86%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.86%) pytest
5 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Bitcoin
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Android
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.71%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (71.43%) Agile
2 25 (71.43%) QA Automation
3 13 (37.14%) BDD
4 12 (34.29%) API Testing
5 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 10 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 8 (22.86%) TDD
7 7 (20.00%) SDLC
7 7 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.14%) Scrum
9 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
9 5 (14.29%) SDET
9 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) User Experience
10 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 9001
2 4 (11.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Splunk