Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 103 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -66 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 668 2,111 7,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.76% 6.61% 9.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 6.95% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 473 1,161 2,362
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £111,250 £100,000
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
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,759 30,392 71,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.06% 95.23% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 22,244 34,287
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the London 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
Central London -10 115 £80,000 -3.03% 19
South London -27 41 £57,500 +4.55% 3
West London -52 9 £62,500 +20.77% 5
East London +15 3 £80,000 +56.10% 7
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 31 (4.64%) Confluence
2 18 (2.69%) IIS
3 15 (2.25%) Apache
4 6 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.90%) nginx
4 6 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) Moodle
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Findur
4 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 252 (37.72%) AWS
2 203 (30.39%) Azure
3 92 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (12.13%) GCP
5 50 (7.49%) Serverless
6 48 (7.19%) Amazon S3
7 46 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (6.14%) GitHub
9 38 (5.69%) SaaS
10 35 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (4.04%) Power Platform
12 21 (3.14%) PaaS
13 19 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (2.40%) OpenShift
16 14 (2.10%) Azure AKS
17 13 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.54%) DNS
2 13 (1.95%) Internet
3 10 (1.50%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.20%) SNMP
4 8 (1.20%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.90%) HTTP
6 4 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.30%) SMTP
7 2 (0.30%) SSH
7 2 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.72%) SQL Server
2 46 (6.89%) NoSQL
3 42 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 39 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 37 (5.54%) MySQL
6 28 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.10%) Big Data
12 11 (1.65%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.50%) DB2
14 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.20%) Power BI
15 7 (1.05%) Metadata
16 5 (0.75%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.75%) SAP HANA
17 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 114 (17.07%) Git
2 82 (12.28%) Selenium
3 69 (10.33%) JIRA
4 65 (9.73%) Jenkins
5 43 (6.44%) JUnit
6 41 (6.14%) Cucumber
7 35 (5.24%) GitLab
8 28 (4.19%) Cypress.io
9 26 (3.89%) JMeter
9 26 (3.89%) WebDriver
10 24 (3.59%) TeamCity
11 22 (3.29%) Postman
11 22 (3.29%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.99%) TestNG
12 20 (2.99%) Visual Studio
13 18 (2.69%) SpecFlow
14 13 (1.95%) SonarQube
15 11 (1.65%) SoapUI
16 10 (1.50%) Appium
17 9 (1.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 189 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 174 (26.05%) Finance
3 98 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.43%) Law
6 45 (6.74%) Banking
7 37 (5.54%) Marketing
8 30 (4.49%) Front Office
9 27 (4.04%) Retail
10 18 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.95%) Legal
12 12 (1.80%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.35%) Back Office
14 8 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.05%) Police
16 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (23.35%) Developer
2 154 (23.05%) Senior
3 109 (16.32%) Software Engineer
4 106 (15.87%) Lead
5 52 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (5.99%) Senior Developer
7 39 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (5.84%) Tester
8 36 (5.39%) Analyst
9 34 (5.09%) Java Engineer
10 32 (4.79%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 25 (3.74%) QA Engineer
14 21 (3.14%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.14%) Python Engineer
15 20 (2.99%) Java Developer
15 20 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.99%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (21.86%) .NET
2 112 (16.77%) REST
3 90 (13.47%) React
4 64 (9.58%) Web Services
5 54 (8.08%) AngularJS
6 48 (7.19%) JSON
7 47 (7.04%) Spring
8 42 (6.29%) HTML
9 40 (5.99%) .NET Framework
9 40 (5.99%) CSS
10 39 (5.84%) ASP.NET
11 38 (5.69%) Node.js
12 37 (5.54%) RESTful
13 33 (4.94%) XML
14 28 (4.19%) .NET Core
15 27 (4.04%) Spring Boot
16 26 (3.89%) Playwright
17 22 (3.29%) GraphQL
18 18 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
19 17 (2.54%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.34%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.89%) Blog
3 26 (3.89%) Mobile App
4 23 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.40%) Hedge funds
8 16 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.95%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.65%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.65%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.50%) Derivative
12 10 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.35%) Clustering
13 9 (1.35%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.93%) Linux
2 26 (3.89%) Windows
3 21 (3.14%) Android
4 19 (2.84%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.25%) Unix
6 5 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (50.30%) Agile
2 237 (35.48%) DevOps
3 212 (31.74%) CI/CD
4 182 (27.25%) Software Engineering
5 135 (20.21%) Microservices
6 124 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (18.11%) Scrum
8 118 (17.66%) Mentoring
9 117 (17.51%) Software Testing
10 108 (16.17%) Continuous Integration
11 101 (15.12%) TDD
12 83 (12.43%) Test Strategy
13 80 (11.98%) Unit Testing
14 78 (11.68%) Coaching
15 77 (11.53%) Containerisation
15 77 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (10.18%) Computer Science
17 65 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
18 63 (9.43%) SDET
19 62 (9.28%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 218 (32.63%) Java
2 179 (26.80%) Python
3 156 (23.35%) C#
4 154 (23.05%) SQL
5 130 (19.46%) JavaScript
6 85 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.59%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.34%) Kotlin
9 24 (3.59%) Scala
10 21 (3.14%) Bash
10 21 (3.14%) Go
10 21 (3.14%) Perl
11 20 (2.99%) C++
12 12 (1.80%) Rust
13 11 (1.65%) Bicep
13 11 (1.65%) PHP
13 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) Swift
14 10 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.20%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (12.57%) Degree
2 51 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (7.34%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 19 (2.84%) ISTQB
6 18 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.65%) ISEB
8 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.60%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.30%) MCAD
15 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (20.21%) QA
2 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.35%) ISO 9001
5 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.05%) SLA
7 5 (0.75%) GDPR
8 4 (0.60%) NCSC
8 4 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.45%) ITGC
9 3 (0.45%) JTAG
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (15.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Firmware
4 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.30%) Varnish
6 2 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (16.92%) Kubernetes
2 112 (16.77%) Terraform
3 44 (6.59%) Ansible
4 24 (3.59%) Puppet
5 20 (2.99%) Grafana
6 14 (2.10%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.80%) Nagios
7 12 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.35%) Packer
9 8 (1.20%) Graphite
9 8 (1.20%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.90%) Istio
11 5 (0.75%) Kibana
11 5 (0.75%) Salt
12 3 (0.45%) Control-M
12 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.45%) logstash
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.30%) cPanel
Vendors
1 66 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.34%) Google
3 21 (3.14%) Oracle
4 15 (2.25%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.10%) IBM
6 13 (1.95%) Databricks
6 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.80%) YouTube
8 11 (1.65%) Sybase
8 11 (1.65%) UiPath
9 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.20%) Splunk
9 8 (1.20%) Xero
10 7 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.05%) SAP
11 6 (0.90%) Amplitude
11 6 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.90%) Blue Prism
11 6 (0.90%) New Relic
12 5 (0.75%) VMware