Test Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in England is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 755 864
Rank change year-on-year -69 +109 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 39 139 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 25 125 282
10th Percentile £28,900 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation Engineer in England

Test Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the England 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
London +42 14 £55,000 - 2
South East -40 9 £37,500 -25.00% 2
North of England -5 5 £42,500 -19.05% 5
Midlands -48 4 £40,000 -38.46% 3
South West -50 4 £58,750 +23.68% 4
East of England -8 3 £37,500 +2.74% 1
West Midlands -22 3 £40,000 -38.46% 2
North West -25 3 £43,750 -2.78% 4
Yorkshire +56 2 £42,500 -15.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 - 1
Test Automation Engineer
UK

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (56.41%) Agile
3 17 (43.59%) Python
3 17 (43.59%) QA
3 17 (43.59%) Selenium
4 15 (38.46%) Java
5 14 (35.90%) Test Strategy
5 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
6 13 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 11 (28.21%) BDD
7 11 (28.21%) AWS
7 11 (28.21%) JIRA
7 11 (28.21%) Test Scripting
8 9 (23.08%) ISTQB
8 9 (23.08%) TDD
8 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
9 8 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
9 8 (20.51%) Azure
9 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.95%) DevOps
10 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (17.95%) API Testing
10 7 (17.95%) Finance
11 6 (15.38%) C#
11 6 (15.38%) Manual Testing
11 6 (15.38%) QA Automation
11 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
12 5 (12.82%) GitHub

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) GitHub
4 4 (10.26%) Datadog
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Selenium
2 13 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 11 (28.21%) JIRA
4 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 5 (12.82%) Postman
5 5 (12.82%) SpecFlow
6 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (7.69%) Appium
7 3 (7.69%) JBehave
7 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
8 2 (5.13%) Git
8 2 (5.13%) TestRail
8 2 (5.13%) UI Automator
9 1 (2.56%) GitLab
9 1 (2.56%) mountebank
9 1 (2.56%) MSTest
9 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.56%) Protractor
9 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.56%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Automotive
4 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
1 5 (12.82%) Playwright
2 2 (5.13%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) Behat
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (2.56%) Puppeteer
3 1 (2.56%) pytest
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Bitcoin
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Android
2 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.13%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (56.41%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.90%) Test Strategy
4 11 (28.21%) BDD
4 11 (28.21%) Test Scripting
5 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.08%) TDD
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
7 7 (17.95%) API Testing
7 7 (17.95%) DevOps
8 6 (15.38%) Manual Testing
8 6 (15.38%) QA Automation
9 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
9 5 (12.82%) SDLC
9 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (10.26%) Scrum
10 4 (10.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Java
3 6 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) C++
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) ISTQB
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) ISEB
3 4 (10.26%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (43.59%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Firmware
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) YouTube
2 1 (2.56%) CA Agile Central