Test Automation Jobs in England

Automated Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -75 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,157 5,590 12,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.37% 6.64% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 6.96% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,447 2,444 5,075
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,185 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the England 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
London -66 668 £70,000 -6.67% 221
South East -56 511 £55,000 -4.76% 100
North of England -88 369 £55,000 -4.35% 95
Midlands -104 240 £50,000 -13.04% 62
South West -61 229 £55,000 - 68
North West -75 222 £57,500 - 75
West Midlands -78 179 £52,500 -12.50% 46
Yorkshire -69 117 £55,000 -4.35% 16
East of England -85 115 £55,000 -15.38% 49
East Midlands -104 60 £47,500 -13.64% 16
North East -43 30 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 73 (3.38%) Confluence
2 32 (1.48%) Apache
3 26 (1.21%) IIS
4 25 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.74%) CMS
6 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.37%) nginx
7 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.32%) SAS
9 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.28%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) TWiki
11 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.093%) Drupal
11 2 (0.093%) Moodle
11 2 (0.093%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.046%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 29 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.19%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.19%) Simulink
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.093%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 40 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Magento
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.093%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.093%) Endur
5 2 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.093%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.046%) Findur
6 1 (0.046%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.046%) Postilion
6 1 (0.046%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 582 (26.98%) Azure
2 555 (25.73%) AWS
3 214 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.21%) SaaS
5 128 (5.93%) GCP
6 126 (5.84%) GitHub
7 106 (4.91%) Amazon S3
8 101 (4.68%) Serverless
9 99 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (3.01%) OCI
11 61 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
12 60 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 58 (2.69%) Amazon ECR
13 58 (2.69%) Route 53
14 57 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.41%) PaaS
16 51 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
18 40 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.78%) 5G
2 45 (2.09%) Wireless
3 40 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
4 35 (1.62%) SD-WAN
4 35 (1.62%) WAN
5 34 (1.58%) Internet
6 32 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.44%) DNS
7 31 (1.44%) HTTP
8 28 (1.30%) Bluetooth
9 22 (1.02%) Firewall
9 22 (1.02%) GSM
9 22 (1.02%) ISDN
9 22 (1.02%) LTE
9 22 (1.02%) PSTN
9 22 (1.02%) UMTS
10 20 (0.93%) Network Security
11 19 (0.88%) MQTT
12 15 (0.70%) RS-485
13 14 (0.65%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 140 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 109 (5.05%) MySQL
4 104 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 88 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 79 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
8 42 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 41 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.02%) Power BI
12 20 (0.93%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.83%) Big Data
14 15 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.70%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.70%) Redis
15 14 (0.65%) DB2
16 12 (0.56%) MariaDB
17 8 (0.37%) Tableau
18 7 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 326 (15.11%) Selenium
2 321 (14.88%) Git
3 225 (10.43%) JIRA
4 196 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 122 (5.66%) Cucumber
6 102 (4.73%) Postman
7 87 (4.03%) JMeter
8 81 (3.76%) Cypress.io
9 75 (3.48%) JUnit
10 72 (3.34%) Visual Studio
11 71 (3.29%) GitLab
12 67 (3.11%) Appium
13 60 (2.78%) TeamCity
14 57 (2.64%) SpecFlow
15 53 (2.46%) WebDriver
16 46 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
17 44 (2.04%) LabVIEW
18 42 (1.95%) REST Assured
19 36 (1.67%) SoapUI
19 36 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 574 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 378 (17.52%) Finance
3 228 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 214 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 138 (6.40%) Law
7 97 (4.50%) Retail
8 86 (3.99%) Banking
9 77 (3.57%) Electronics
10 75 (3.48%) Marketing
11 67 (3.11%) Aerospace
12 58 (2.69%) Automotive
12 58 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
13 54 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 53 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.04%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.76%) Legal
17 33 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 30 (1.39%) Front Office
19 22 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 516 (23.92%) Developer
2 409 (18.96%) Senior
3 303 (14.05%) Software Engineer
4 250 (11.59%) Lead
5 149 (6.91%) Test Engineer
6 147 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 144 (6.68%) Tester
8 116 (5.38%) Analyst
9 110 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 105 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (4.82%) Software Developer
12 90 (4.17%) QA Engineer
13 80 (3.71%) Java Engineer
14 77 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
14 77 (3.57%) Test Analyst
15 76 (3.52%) Automation Tester
16 68 (3.15%) .NET Developer
17 66 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
17 66 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 53 (2.46%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (17.71%) .NET
2 196 (9.09%) React
3 190 (8.81%) REST
4 157 (7.28%) HTML
5 150 (6.95%) RESTful
6 145 (6.72%) CSS
7 123 (5.70%) Node.js
8 118 (5.47%) AngularJS
9 115 (5.33%) Web Services
10 103 (4.78%) JSON
11 97 (4.50%) .NET Core
12 90 (4.17%) ASP.NET
13 87 (4.03%) Spring
14 78 (3.62%) .NET Framework
15 69 (3.20%) XML
16 63 (2.92%) Playwright
17 58 (2.69%) Spring Boot
18 48 (2.23%) Vue
19 43 (1.99%) Gherkin
19 43 (1.99%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
2 98 (4.54%) Mobile App
2 98 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 74 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 66 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 62 (2.87%) e-Learning
6 61 (2.83%) Cloud Native
7 60 (2.78%) Blockchain
8 49 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (1.85%) Satnav
10 37 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
12 32 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 32 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 30 (1.39%) Blog
13 30 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
14 29 (1.34%) IoT
15 27 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
16 24 (1.11%) GNSS
17 23 (1.07%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 252 (11.68%) Linux
2 163 (7.56%) Windows
3 54 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 52 (2.41%) Android
5 44 (2.04%) Unix
6 28 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
11 10 (0.46%) Debian
11 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.19%) VMS
15 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.093%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (52.67%) Agile
2 735 (34.08%) DevOps
3 546 (25.31%) Software Engineering
4 539 (24.99%) CI/CD
5 487 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 449 (20.82%) Software Testing
7 437 (20.26%) Mentoring
8 339 (15.72%) Scrum
9 313 (14.51%) Coaching
10 305 (14.14%) Continuous Integration
11 269 (12.47%) Microservices
12 267 (12.38%) TDD
13 249 (11.54%) Computer Science
14 242 (11.22%) Containerisation
15 222 (10.29%) Test Scripting
16 221 (10.25%) Test Strategy
17 197 (9.13%) Full Stack Development
18 192 (8.90%) SDLC
19 191 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
20 172 (7.97%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 506 (23.46%) Java
2 489 (22.67%) C#
3 465 (21.56%) SQL
4 457 (21.19%) Python
5 412 (19.10%) JavaScript
6 169 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 142 (6.58%) C
8 138 (6.40%) C++
9 82 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 77 (3.57%) PHP
11 76 (3.52%) Kotlin
12 56 (2.60%) Bash
13 48 (2.23%) Go
14 33 (1.53%) MATLAB
14 33 (1.53%) Ruby
15 31 (1.44%) Perl
15 31 (1.44%) T-SQL
16 29 (1.34%) Scala
17 23 (1.07%) Rust
18 21 (0.97%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 433 (20.07%) Degree
2 267 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 163 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 156 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (4.45%) ISTQB
6 67 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.85%) ISEB
8 36 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.21%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.51%) HND
14 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.19%) CIPD
17 4 (0.19%) HNC
17 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 522 (24.20%) QA
2 37 (1.72%) GDPR
3 35 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
5 22 (1.02%) PMO
6 16 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.70%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.70%) NCSC
8 10 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.46%) JTAG
8 10 (0.46%) SLA
9 8 (0.37%) PSD2
10 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.14%) ITGC
11 3 (0.14%) MISRA
11 3 (0.14%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 3 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.093%) Def Stans
System Software
1 241 (11.17%) Docker
2 43 (1.99%) Firmware
3 26 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.70%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.28%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.19%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.093%) Varnish
11 2 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 260 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 237 (10.99%) Terraform
3 120 (5.56%) Ansible
4 59 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.62%) Progress Chef
6 33 (1.53%) Puppet
7 29 (1.34%) Grafana
8 15 (0.70%) Kibana
9 14 (0.65%) Nagios
10 10 (0.46%) Packer
11 8 (0.37%) Graphite
11 8 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 8 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.32%) MIIS
13 6 (0.28%) Istio
14 5 (0.23%) Salt
15 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.19%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.19%) WMI
16 3 (0.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 259 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 70 (3.25%) Google
3 69 (3.20%) IBM
4 67 (3.11%) Red Hat
5 62 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 37 (1.72%) Oracle
7 31 (1.44%) Xamarin
8 24 (1.11%) YouTube
9 23 (1.07%) SAP
10 22 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 21 (0.97%) UiPath
12 20 (0.93%) Databricks
13 18 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.74%) Splunk
14 16 (0.74%) VMware
15 15 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere
16 13 (0.60%) Sybase
17 11 (0.51%) BT
17 11 (0.51%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.46%) Blue Prism