Test Automation Jobs

Automated Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 96 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -61 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,763 6,375 14,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.63% 6.74% 8.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 7.06% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 2,801 5,808
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,836 £37,848
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £53,306
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.87% +6.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Top 18 Job Locations

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 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
England -75 2,157 £60,000 -7.69% 616
UK excluding London -65 1,950 £52,500 -8.70% 432
Work from Home -48 966 £55,000 -15.38% 308
London -66 668 £70,000 -6.67% 227
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
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
1 111 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 95 (3.44%) Confluence
3 38 (1.38%) Apache
4 27 (0.98%) IIS
5 25 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 12 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.29%) nginx
10 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.29%) WordPress
11 7 (0.25%) SAS
12 4 (0.14%) JBoss
12 4 (0.14%) TWiki
13 2 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.072%) Drupal
13 2 (0.072%) Moodle
13 2 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.14%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.072%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.036%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.036%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.036%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 40 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.33%) Magento
3 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.072%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.072%) Endur
5 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.072%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.036%) Findur
6 1 (0.036%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.036%) Postilion
6 1 (0.036%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 773 (27.98%) AWS
2 693 (25.08%) Azure
3 249 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 218 (7.89%) SaaS
5 172 (6.23%) GCP
6 149 (5.39%) GitHub
7 120 (4.34%) Serverless
8 108 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 102 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
10 72 (2.61%) OCI
11 69 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
12 64 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (2.28%) Power Platform
14 62 (2.24%) IBM Cloud
15 60 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (2.14%) PaaS
16 59 (2.14%) Route 53
17 58 (2.10%) Amazon ECR
18 54 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
19 40 (1.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.46%) Kerberos
2 60 (2.17%) 5G
3 45 (1.63%) Wireless
4 40 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 35 (1.27%) WAN
6 34 (1.23%) Internet
7 33 (1.19%) DNS
7 33 (1.19%) HTTP
8 32 (1.16%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.05%) Bluetooth
10 22 (0.80%) Firewall
10 22 (0.80%) GSM
10 22 (0.80%) ISDN
10 22 (0.80%) LTE
10 22 (0.80%) PSTN
10 22 (0.80%) UMTS
11 20 (0.72%) Network Security
12 19 (0.69%) MQTT
13 16 (0.58%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (8.43%) NoSQL
2 223 (8.07%) SQL Server
3 122 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 118 (4.27%) MySQL
5 114 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 108 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
7 84 (3.04%) Apache Hive
7 84 (3.04%) HBase
8 82 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (2.93%) Big Data
10 75 (2.71%) Metadata
11 62 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
12 60 (2.17%) Hadoop
13 49 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 49 (1.77%) DynamoDB
14 37 (1.34%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.09%) DB2
16 24 (0.87%) Tableau
17 22 (0.80%) Power BI
18 19 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 553 (20.01%) Git
2 409 (14.80%) Jenkins
3 388 (14.04%) Selenium
4 280 (10.13%) JIRA
5 162 (5.86%) Cucumber
6 139 (5.03%) Cypress.io
6 139 (5.03%) Postman
7 128 (4.63%) JMeter
8 125 (4.52%) Bitbucket
9 98 (3.55%) Visual Studio
10 89 (3.22%) Bitbucket Server
11 88 (3.18%) JUnit
12 81 (2.93%) GitLab
13 74 (2.68%) Appium
14 68 (2.46%) Artifactory
15 66 (2.39%) TeamCity
16 64 (2.32%) SpecFlow
17 60 (2.17%) WebDriver
18 57 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
19 49 (1.77%) SoapUI
General
1 687 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 680 (24.61%) Finance
3 508 (18.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 392 (14.19%) Law
5 274 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
6 218 (7.89%) Marketing
7 212 (7.67%) Public Sector
8 158 (5.72%) Banking
9 111 (4.02%) Retail
10 108 (3.91%) Legal
11 85 (3.08%) Electronics
12 68 (2.46%) Aerospace
13 67 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
14 64 (2.32%) Investment Banking
15 60 (2.17%) Automotive
16 57 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
17 54 (1.95%) Telecoms
18 50 (1.81%) Financial Institution
19 47 (1.70%) Manufacturing
20 42 (1.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 669 (24.21%) Developer
2 552 (19.98%) Software Engineer
3 511 (18.49%) Senior
4 388 (14.04%) Lead
5 215 (7.78%) Test Engineer
6 189 (6.84%) Tester
7 159 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 155 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 146 (5.28%) QA Engineer
10 144 (5.21%) Java Engineer
11 130 (4.71%) Senior Developer
12 122 (4.42%) Analyst
12 122 (4.42%) Software Developer
13 112 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
14 110 (3.98%) Java Software Engineer
15 103 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
16 91 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
17 82 (2.97%) Test Analyst
18 78 (2.82%) AWS Software Engineer
19 76 (2.75%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (16.07%) .NET
2 273 (9.88%) React
3 242 (8.76%) RESTful
4 221 (8.00%) REST
5 220 (7.96%) HTML
6 206 (7.46%) CSS
7 198 (7.17%) Web Services
8 191 (6.91%) JSON
9 159 (5.75%) XML
10 156 (5.65%) AngularJS
11 150 (5.43%) Node.js
12 142 (5.14%) Spring
13 124 (4.49%) Spring Boot
14 115 (4.16%) .NET Core
15 110 (3.98%) ASP.NET
16 88 (3.18%) .NET Framework
16 88 (3.18%) OpenID
17 84 (3.04%) Playwright
18 72 (2.61%) LDAP
19 69 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (5.79%) Management Information System
2 138 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 132 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 123 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 109 (3.94%) Mobile App
6 105 (3.80%) Cloud Native
7 81 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 77 (2.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 67 (2.42%) Reference Data
10 66 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 65 (2.35%) e-Learning
12 60 (2.17%) Blockchain
13 50 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 42 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 41 (1.48%) Data Structures
16 41 (1.48%) IoT
17 40 (1.45%) Satnav
18 38 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
19 36 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 261 (9.45%) Linux
2 170 (6.15%) Windows
3 135 (4.89%) Unix
4 63 (2.28%) Android
4 63 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
7 16 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.36%) Debian
11 9 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.14%) VMS
14 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,551 (56.13%) Agile
2 861 (31.16%) CI/CD
3 851 (30.80%) Software Engineering
4 841 (30.44%) DevOps
5 605 (21.90%) Software Testing
6 569 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 492 (17.81%) Mentoring
8 469 (16.97%) SDLC
9 423 (15.31%) TDD
10 395 (14.30%) Microservices
11 387 (14.01%) Scrum
12 386 (13.97%) Continuous Integration
13 341 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 339 (12.27%) Coaching
15 299 (10.82%) Artificial Intelligence
16 274 (9.92%) Containerisation
17 273 (9.88%) Computer Science
18 266 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
19 262 (9.48%) Test Strategy
20 259 (9.37%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 722 (26.13%) Java
2 689 (24.94%) SQL
3 652 (23.60%) Python
4 594 (21.50%) C#
5 557 (20.16%) JavaScript
6 240 (8.69%) TypeScript
7 160 (5.79%) C
8 147 (5.32%) C++
9 134 (4.85%) Go
10 121 (4.38%) PL/SQL
11 91 (3.29%) PowerShell
12 87 (3.15%) PHP
13 79 (2.86%) Kotlin
14 66 (2.39%) SPARQL
15 65 (2.35%) Prolog
16 59 (2.14%) Bash
17 46 (1.66%) Scala
17 46 (1.66%) T-SQL
18 33 (1.19%) MATLAB
18 33 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 469 (16.97%) Degree
2 290 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 181 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 175 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 114 (4.13%) ISTQB
6 67 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.59%) ISEB
8 42 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 31 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 30 (1.09%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 14 (0.51%) HND
14 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.25%) HNC
18 5 (0.18%) MCAD
18 5 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 666 (24.10%) QA
2 62 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.34%) GDPR
4 31 (1.12%) ISO 9001
5 27 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
6 26 (0.94%) SLA
7 22 (0.80%) PMO
8 19 (0.69%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.54%) NCSC
10 13 (0.47%) WAI
11 10 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.36%) JTAG
12 8 (0.29%) PSD2
13 7 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.25%) MISRA
14 5 (0.18%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) DICOM
15 4 (0.14%) HL7
15 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 298 (10.79%) Docker
2 85 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 84 (3.04%) HDFS
4 43 (1.56%) Firmware
5 26 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.22%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.14%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.072%) Varnish
12 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 352 (12.74%) Terraform
2 311 (11.26%) Kubernetes
3 129 (4.67%) Ansible
4 64 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.48%) Grafana
6 35 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 33 (1.19%) Puppet
8 22 (0.80%) Kibana
9 14 (0.51%) Nagios
10 10 (0.36%) Packer
11 8 (0.29%) Graphite
11 8 (0.29%) HAProxy
11 8 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.25%) MIIS
13 6 (0.22%) Istio
14 5 (0.18%) Salt
15 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.14%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.14%) WMI
16 3 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 292 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.45%) Databricks
3 91 (3.29%) Oracle
4 84 (3.04%) Informatica
5 77 (2.79%) Google
6 71 (2.57%) IBM
7 69 (2.50%) Dynatrace
8 67 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 54 (1.95%) Cloudera
10 31 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.12%) Xamarin
11 29 (1.05%) Sybase
12 26 (0.94%) Splunk
13 24 (0.87%) UiPath
13 24 (0.87%) YouTube
14 23 (0.83%) SAP
15 22 (0.80%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.65%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
16 18 (0.65%) Cognos