Test Automation Jobs in the South West

Automated Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 51 36
Rank change year-on-year -57 -15 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 239 369 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.55% 5.49% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 5.81% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 141 196 370
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £38,175
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,500 £73,675
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +0.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,778 6,353 7,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.84% 94.50% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,517 5,034
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,538
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the South West

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Bristol -35 81 £61,250 +2.08% 22
Devon +8 67 £60,000 +60.00% 12
Dorset -8 39 £52,500 -7.08% 8
Gloucestershire -39 38 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Wiltshire -27 12 £51,750 -23.33% 6
Somerset -25 1 £45,000 -10.00% 14
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (5.86%) Confluence
2 9 (3.77%) Apache
3 6 (2.51%) SAS
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
4 4 (1.67%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.84%) JBoss
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.84%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.64%) AWS
2 30 (12.55%) Azure
3 14 (5.86%) GitHub
4 13 (5.44%) npm
5 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.35%) GCP
6 7 (2.93%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.26%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.26%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (1.26%) OCI
9 3 (1.26%) Route 53
10 2 (0.84%) Datadog
10 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.84%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.48%) 5G
1 37 (15.48%) SD-WAN
1 37 (15.48%) WAN
2 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.35%) DNS
3 8 (3.35%) HTTP
3 8 (3.35%) Internet
3 8 (3.35%) SMTP
4 2 (0.84%) SSL
4 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) Network Security
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.86%) MySQL
1 14 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.44%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.51%) Power BI
5 6 (2.51%) Tableau
6 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.84%) Big Data
7 2 (0.84%) DB2
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (17.15%) Selenium
2 35 (14.64%) Git
3 33 (13.81%) Jenkins
4 32 (13.39%) JIRA
5 18 (7.53%) Cucumber
6 13 (5.44%) Storybook
7 12 (5.02%) Cypress.io
8 11 (4.60%) TeamCity
9 10 (4.18%) LabVIEW
9 10 (4.18%) Postman
10 9 (3.77%) Subversion
11 8 (3.35%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (2.93%) Maven
13 6 (2.51%) SpecFlow
14 5 (2.09%) Bitbucket
14 5 (2.09%) JMeter
15 4 (1.67%) Appium
15 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio
15 4 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.13%) Finance
3 60 (25.10%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.48%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (13.39%) Electronics
6 23 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (8.79%) Banking
8 19 (7.95%) Law
9 14 (5.86%) Financial Institution
9 14 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.60%) Retail
11 10 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (4.18%) Investment Banking
12 8 (3.35%) Legal
13 7 (2.93%) Automotive
14 3 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.84%) Games
15 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 67 (28.03%) Developer
2 42 (17.57%) Senior
3 34 (14.23%) Lead
4 31 (12.97%) Software Engineer
5 29 (12.13%) Software Developer
6 27 (11.30%) Test Engineer
7 18 (7.53%) RF Engineer
7 18 (7.53%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.69%) GNSS Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) QA Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Project Leader
11 11 (4.60%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.60%) Technical Project Leader
12 10 (4.18%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Product Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.18%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.81%) .NET
2 25 (10.46%) Node.js
3 16 (6.69%) React
4 15 (6.28%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.86%) Gherkin
5 14 (5.86%) Spring
6 13 (5.44%) CSS
6 13 (5.44%) HTML
6 13 (5.44%) Sass
7 10 (4.18%) .NET Framework
8 9 (3.77%) RESTful
9 8 (3.35%) ASP.NET
9 8 (3.35%) pytest
9 8 (3.35%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.93%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.93%) jQuery
10 7 (2.93%) LAMP
10 7 (2.93%) SVG
11 6 (2.51%) Kafka
11 6 (2.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.97%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.88%) GNSS
3 15 (6.28%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.60%) FPGA
6 10 (4.18%) Mobile App
6 10 (4.18%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.35%) CUDA
7 8 (3.35%) MicroBlaze
7 8 (3.35%) Robotics
7 8 (3.35%) Tandem
7 8 (3.35%) VHDL
8 7 (2.93%) Animation
8 7 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.93%) Video Editing
9 6 (2.51%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.51%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.51%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.09%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.67%) Linux
2 44 (18.41%) Windows
3 22 (9.21%) Apple iOS
4 18 (7.53%) Unix
5 8 (3.35%) Debian
5 8 (3.35%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.09%) Android
7 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.05%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (39.33%) Agile
3 62 (25.94%) B2B
4 59 (24.69%) DevOps
5 57 (23.85%) Computer Science
5 57 (23.85%) Software Engineering
6 51 (21.34%) CI/CD
7 50 (20.92%) Mentoring
8 44 (18.41%) Scrum
9 42 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (17.57%) Project Delivery
10 39 (16.32%) Containerisation
11 37 (15.48%) Test Assurance
12 36 (15.06%) Coaching
13 34 (14.23%) End-to-End Testing
14 28 (11.72%) Time Management
15 25 (10.46%) SDLC
16 24 (10.04%) TDD
16 24 (10.04%) Test Scripting
17 23 (9.62%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.54%) Java
2 67 (28.03%) Python
3 56 (23.43%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.06%) C#
5 32 (13.39%) C++
6 28 (11.72%) SQL
7 27 (11.30%) C
8 22 (9.21%) TypeScript
9 21 (8.79%) MATLAB
10 14 (5.86%) Bash
11 12 (5.02%) PHP
12 9 (3.77%) Go
12 9 (3.77%) Kotlin
12 9 (3.77%) Rust
13 8 (3.35%) Perl
13 8 (3.35%) Tcl
13 8 (3.35%) VB
14 6 (2.51%) R
14 6 (2.51%) Ruby
14 6 (2.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (44.35%) Degree
2 16 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.02%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.18%) HND
5 9 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.51%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.09%) ISEB
8 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.26%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.84%) HNC
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) MCSA
10 1 (0.42%) MCSD
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.41%) QA
2 19 (7.95%) PMO
3 7 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.26%) JTAG
5 2 (0.84%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (11.30%) Docker
2 18 (7.53%) Firmware
3 16 (6.69%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.44%) Terraform
3 11 (4.60%) Ansible
3 11 (4.60%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.93%) Puppet
5 5 (2.09%) Argo
6 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.84%) Nagios
7 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.60%) Xamarin
3 9 (3.77%) UiPath
4 8 (3.35%) Altera
4 8 (3.35%) Green Hills
4 8 (3.35%) Motorola
4 8 (3.35%) Oracle
4 8 (3.35%) Xilinx
5 6 (2.51%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.51%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.51%) Google
5 6 (2.51%) Pega
5 6 (2.51%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
6 3 (1.26%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.26%) Coverity
6 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.26%) IBM
6 3 (1.26%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.84%) Splunk