Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 839 703 753
Rank change year-on-year -136 +50 -8
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 68 262 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 61 190 209
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

QA 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.43%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK

QA Automation
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -128 53 £57,500 +4.55% 14
UK excluding London -72 39 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Work from Home -36 36 £57,500 - 11
London -23 24 £60,000 +14.29% 10
South East -12 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
Scotland - 12 £52,500 -
South West -8 7 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England +34 6 £52,500 -
North West -3 6 £52,500 +16.67%
Wales +4 1 £82,500 +32.00%
East of England -30 1 £38,000 - 1

QA Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) Azure
2 21 (30.88%) AWS
3 12 (17.65%) SaaS
4 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.88%) BrowserStack
6 3 (4.41%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.47%) MySQL
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (47.06%) Cypress.io
2 31 (45.59%) Selenium
3 19 (27.94%) Cucumber
4 18 (26.47%) Postman
5 12 (17.65%) Jenkins
6 9 (13.24%) Git
6 9 (13.24%) JMeter
7 8 (11.76%) REST Assured
8 7 (10.29%) Appium
8 7 (10.29%) SpecFlow
9 6 (8.82%) JIRA
9 6 (8.82%) JUnit
10 4 (5.88%) Mockito
11 3 (4.41%) GitLab
11 3 (4.41%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (4.41%) WebDriver
12 2 (2.94%) CircleCI
12 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
12 2 (2.94%) TestNG
12 2 (2.94%) XCUITest
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Electronics
2 5 (7.35%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Games
3 4 (5.88%) Health Technology
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Front Office
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
5 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Publishing
6 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (60.29%) QA Engineer
2 24 (35.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 19 (27.94%) Automation Engineer
4 18 (26.47%) Lead
5 16 (23.53%) QA Leader
6 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Tester
9 3 (4.41%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.41%) QA Tester
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
10 2 (2.94%) Automation Test Lead
10 2 (2.94%) QA Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) QA Automation Tester
10 2 (2.94%) Senior QA Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) Playwright
2 10 (14.71%) .NET
3 5 (7.35%) Spring
3 5 (7.35%) Web Services
4 4 (5.88%) React
4 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.88%) Swagger
4 4 (5.88%) WireMock
5 3 (4.41%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.94%) CSS
6 2 (2.94%) HTML
7 1 (1.47%) Jest
7 1 (1.47%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.47%) Puppeteer
7 1 (1.47%) PySpark
7 1 (1.47%) pytest
7 1 (1.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.94%) Derivative
3 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.94%) Hackathon
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.47%) Bitcoin
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Android
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (97.06%) Test Automation
2 38 (55.88%) Agile
3 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
4 24 (35.29%) API Testing
5 22 (32.35%) BDD
6 18 (26.47%) Software Engineering
6 18 (26.47%) Software Testing
7 16 (23.53%) DevOps
8 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 11 (16.18%) Coaching
9 11 (16.18%) Test Scripting
9 11 (16.18%) Test Strategy
10 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.71%) Regression Testing
10 10 (14.71%) SDET
11 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.24%) Scrum
12 8 (11.76%) E-Commerce
12 8 (11.76%) Integration Testing
12 8 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) Java
2 15 (22.06%) C#
3 14 (20.59%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) Python
5 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) ISEB
4 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (5.88%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.47%) Databricks
2 1 (1.47%) IBM
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.47%) SAP
2 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.47%) Solace
2 1 (1.47%) Splunk
2 1 (1.47%) TIBCO
2 1 (1.47%) VMware