Test Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automated Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 100 35 35
Rank change year-on-year -65 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,950 3,875 5,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.57% 6.85% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 7.18% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,142 1,399 2,988
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,306
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.87% +6.61%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,056 £77,500
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East -56 511 £55,000 -4.76% 101
Scotland -22 405 £50,000 -16.67% 45
North of England -88 369 £55,000 -4.35% 95
Midlands -104 240 £50,000 -13.04% 62
South West -61 229 £55,000 - 69
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
Wales -28 69 £50,000 +11.11% 9
East Midlands -104 60 £47,500 -13.64% 16
North East -43 30 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Northern Ireland -22 11 £57,500 +9.52% 13
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 - 1
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 103 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 63 (3.23%) Confluence
3 24 (1.23%) Apache
4 19 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 17 (0.87%) CMS
6 15 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
7 9 (0.46%) IIS
7 9 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.31%) SAS
10 4 (0.21%) JBoss
10 4 (0.21%) TWiki
10 4 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.10%) nginx
12 1 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.051%) Drupal
12 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 33 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.21%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.21%) Simulink
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.10%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.051%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.051%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.051%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 28 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.46%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.051%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 480 (24.62%) AWS
2 442 (22.67%) Azure
3 162 (8.31%) SaaS
4 128 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (4.67%) GitHub
6 81 (4.15%) GCP
7 59 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 59 (3.03%) OCI
8 56 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (2.62%) IBM Cloud
10 49 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (2.46%) Route 53
12 47 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
13 43 (2.21%) Serverless
14 35 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (1.74%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.69%) BlazeMeter
17 32 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
18 31 (1.59%) Power Platform
19 29 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.49%) Kerberos
2 60 (3.08%) 5G
3 41 (2.10%) Wireless
4 40 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 35 (1.79%) WAN
6 28 (1.44%) Bluetooth
7 25 (1.28%) HTTP
8 22 (1.13%) GSM
8 22 (1.13%) ISDN
8 22 (1.13%) LTE
8 22 (1.13%) PSTN
8 22 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.13%) UMTS
9 21 (1.08%) Internet
10 19 (0.97%) Network Security
11 18 (0.92%) MQTT
12 16 (0.82%) DNS
12 16 (0.82%) DSL
13 15 (0.77%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (9.49%) NoSQL
2 126 (6.46%) SQL Server
3 84 (4.31%) Apache Hive
3 84 (4.31%) HBase
4 80 (4.10%) MySQL
4 80 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 65 (3.33%) Metadata
8 61 (3.13%) Big Data
9 56 (2.87%) Hadoop
10 55 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (1.44%) Data Lake
14 22 (1.13%) Tableau
15 20 (1.03%) DB2
15 20 (1.03%) DynamoDB
16 14 (0.72%) Power BI
17 12 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 422 (21.64%) Git
2 335 (17.18%) Jenkins
3 283 (14.51%) Selenium
4 195 (10.00%) JIRA
5 123 (6.31%) Cucumber
6 111 (5.69%) Bitbucket
7 103 (5.28%) Cypress.io
8 97 (4.97%) JMeter
9 89 (4.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 87 (4.46%) Postman
11 73 (3.74%) Visual Studio
12 67 (3.44%) Artifactory
13 61 (3.13%) Appium
14 45 (2.31%) JUnit
15 43 (2.21%) LabVIEW
15 43 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
16 40 (2.05%) TeamCity
17 39 (2.00%) GitLab
18 38 (1.95%) SpecFlow
19 36 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 498 (25.54%) Finance
2 464 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 398 (20.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 322 (16.51%) Law
5 197 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
6 180 (9.23%) Marketing
7 145 (7.44%) Public Sector
8 105 (5.38%) Banking
9 94 (4.82%) Legal
10 82 (4.21%) Electronics
11 76 (3.90%) Retail
12 66 (3.38%) Aerospace
13 54 (2.77%) Automotive
13 54 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 52 (2.67%) Investment Banking
15 41 (2.10%) Games
15 41 (2.10%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (1.90%) Financial Institution
18 35 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 450 (23.08%) Developer
2 441 (22.62%) Software Engineer
3 324 (16.62%) Senior
4 258 (13.23%) Lead
5 172 (8.82%) Test Engineer
6 145 (7.44%) Tester
7 114 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 112 (5.74%) QA Engineer
9 109 (5.59%) Java Engineer
10 101 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
11 95 (4.87%) Software Developer
12 94 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
13 91 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
14 87 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
15 80 (4.10%) Analyst
16 76 (3.90%) Senior Developer
17 75 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
18 62 (3.18%) Full Stack Engineer
19 61 (3.13%) Automation Tester
20 59 (3.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (13.74%) .NET
2 202 (10.36%) RESTful
3 172 (8.82%) React
4 158 (8.10%) HTML
5 147 (7.54%) CSS
6 134 (6.87%) JSON
7 129 (6.62%) Web Services
8 113 (5.79%) XML
9 108 (5.54%) REST
10 97 (4.97%) AngularJS
10 97 (4.97%) Spring Boot
11 94 (4.82%) Spring
12 87 (4.46%) Node.js
13 82 (4.21%) OpenID
14 73 (3.74%) .NET Core
15 68 (3.49%) ASP.NET
15 68 (3.49%) LDAP
15 68 (3.49%) SAML
16 65 (3.33%) JSON-LD
17 55 (2.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 144 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 129 (6.62%) Algorithms
3 110 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 96 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 72 (3.69%) Mobile App
8 70 (3.59%) Cloud Native
9 65 (3.33%) Reference Data
10 54 (2.77%) e-Learning
11 49 (2.51%) Blockchain
11 49 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (2.05%) Satnav
13 38 (1.95%) IoT
14 33 (1.69%) Market Risk
15 31 (1.59%) Onboarding
16 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 28 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
18 27 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
19 26 (1.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 206 (10.56%) Linux
2 137 (7.03%) Windows
3 116 (5.95%) Unix
4 35 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.69%) Android
6 28 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 19 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.51%) Debian
11 9 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.21%) VMS
14 3 (0.15%) CentOS
15 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (58.15%) Agile
2 650 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 597 (30.62%) CI/CD
4 553 (28.36%) DevOps
5 446 (22.87%) Software Testing
6 414 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
7 394 (20.21%) SDLC
8 355 (18.21%) Mentoring
9 291 (14.92%) TDD
10 263 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
11 254 (13.03%) Coaching
12 250 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 249 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
14 237 (12.15%) Scrum
15 235 (12.05%) Microservices
16 216 (11.08%) Operational Stability
17 203 (10.41%) Test Scripting
18 201 (10.31%) Community of Practice
19 193 (9.90%) Computer Science
20 192 (9.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 501 (25.69%) SQL
2 494 (25.33%) Java
3 447 (22.92%) Python
4 389 (19.95%) JavaScript
5 377 (19.33%) C#
6 143 (7.33%) C
7 121 (6.21%) C++
8 120 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 117 (6.00%) PL/SQL
10 107 (5.49%) Go
11 69 (3.54%) PHP
12 65 (3.33%) Prolog
12 65 (3.33%) SPARQL
13 50 (2.56%) Kotlin
14 40 (2.05%) PowerShell
15 38 (1.95%) Bash
16 36 (1.85%) T-SQL
17 33 (1.69%) MATLAB
18 25 (1.28%) Ruby
19 21 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 367 (18.82%) Degree
2 226 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 141 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (4.51%) ISTQB
6 59 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.69%) ISEB
7 33 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 14 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.56%) HND
14 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CIPD
16 4 (0.21%) HNC
16 4 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (25.13%) QA
2 33 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.64%) GDPR
4 23 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
5 22 (1.13%) ISO 9001
6 20 (1.03%) PMO
7 19 (0.97%) SLA
8 13 (0.67%) WAI
9 11 (0.56%) NCSC
10 10 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.41%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.41%) PSD2
12 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.36%) JTAG
12 7 (0.36%) MISRA
13 4 (0.21%) DICOM
13 4 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.15%) MISRA C
15 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 186 (9.54%) Docker
2 84 (4.31%) HDFS
3 79 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 38 (1.95%) Firmware
5 26 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.21%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 233 (11.95%) Terraform
2 194 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 84 (4.31%) Ansible
4 52 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 13 (0.67%) Grafana
6 13 (0.67%) Kibana
7 9 (0.46%) Puppet
8 7 (0.36%) MIIS
9 4 (0.21%) WMI
10 3 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.10%) Nagios
11 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.051%) Iperf
12 1 (0.051%) Nessus
12 1 (0.051%) Nmap
12 1 (0.051%) Packer
Vendors
1 208 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.49%) Databricks
3 84 (4.31%) Informatica
4 64 (3.28%) Oracle
5 57 (2.92%) IBM
6 54 (2.77%) Cloudera
6 54 (2.77%) Dynatrace
6 54 (2.77%) Red Hat
7 48 (2.46%) Google
8 30 (1.54%) Xamarin
9 22 (1.13%) Alteryx
10 18 (0.92%) Sybase
11 17 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.82%) Cognos
13 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.72%) SAP
13 14 (0.72%) Splunk
14 12 (0.62%) YouTube
15 11 (0.56%) VMware
16 10 (0.51%) BT