Test Automation Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Automated Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 89 53
Rank change year-on-year +14 -36 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 48 21 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.30% 1.63% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.76% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 59
10th Percentile - - £37,850
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -28.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £68,250 £79,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +10.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 1,192 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 84.88% 92.33% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 716 989
10th Percentile £28,400 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,563 £66,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Milton Keynes +26 41 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Buckingham - 3 £62,500 - 6
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) AWS
4 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (45.83%) 5G
1 22 (45.83%) Bluetooth
1 22 (45.83%) GSM
1 22 (45.83%) ISDN
1 22 (45.83%) LTE
1 22 (45.83%) PSTN
1 22 (45.83%) UMTS
1 22 (45.83%) Wi-Fi
1 22 (45.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) LabVIEW
2 18 (37.50%) Selenium
3 12 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 11 (22.92%) NUnit
5 10 (20.83%) WebDriver
6 3 (6.25%) Postman
7 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
7 2 (4.17%) JIRA
7 2 (4.17%) TestRail
8 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.08%) Git
8 1 (2.08%) JMeter
8 1 (2.08%) JUnit
8 1 (2.08%) Mockito
8 1 (2.08%) Moq
8 1 (2.08%) MSTest
8 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 23 (47.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 22 (45.83%) Telecoms
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Hardware Engineer
1 15 (31.25%) Test Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Hardware Test Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Hardware Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Associate Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) QA Manager
7 2 (4.17%) QA Technician
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Software Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Software QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) .NET
2 10 (20.83%) .NET Core
3 9 (18.75%) JSON
3 9 (18.75%) XML
4 4 (8.33%) Playwright
5 3 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
7 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.08%) LINQ
7 1 (2.08%) React
7 1 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.08%) Sass
7 1 (2.08%) Spring
7 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (45.83%) Acoustics
1 22 (45.83%) Satnav
2 3 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) Agile
2 26 (54.17%) Test Scripting
3 22 (45.83%) Coaching
3 22 (45.83%) Critical Thinking
3 22 (45.83%) Data Management
4 12 (25.00%) DevOps
4 12 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 10 (20.83%) Integration Testing
5 10 (20.83%) Microservices
5 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (20.83%) SDET
5 10 (20.83%) System Integration Testing
6 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (12.50%) API Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Release Management
8 4 (8.33%) Software Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) C#
3 14 (29.17%) SQL
4 4 (8.33%) Java
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) C
7 1 (2.08%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (60.42%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) ISEB
2 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (45.83%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Conga
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore