QA Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation QA Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 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 759 682 708
Rank change year-on-year -77 +26 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 21 46 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.083% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.094% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 145
10th Percentile £36,025 £31,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +13.51%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Automation Engineer
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 QA Automation Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland - 8 £52,500 -
South East -43 5 £52,500 -8.70% 2
East of England -15 3 £37,500 - 1
North of England +6 2 £62,500 +28.21%
West Midlands -9 2 £40,000 -23.81% 1
Midlands -36 2 £40,000 -23.81% 1
Yorkshire +65 1 - -
North West -27 1 £62,500 +38.89%
South West -47 1 £32,500 - 1
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) QA
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Java
4 10 (47.62%) Selenium
4 10 (47.62%) QA Automation
5 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
6 7 (33.33%) Spring
6 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
7 6 (28.57%) Postman
7 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (28.57%) Azure
8 4 (19.05%) BDD
8 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
8 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
8 4 (19.05%) Electronics
8 4 (19.05%) Games
8 4 (19.05%) ISO 9001
8 4 (19.05%) Playwright
8 4 (19.05%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
8 4 (19.05%) SDET
8 4 (19.05%) API Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
8 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 4 (19.05%) User Experience
8 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (14.29%) Microservices

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (9.52%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Selenium
2 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
3 6 (28.57%) Postman
4 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
4 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (14.29%) Appium
5 3 (14.29%) JMeter
5 3 (14.29%) JUnit
5 3 (14.29%) Mockito
6 2 (9.52%) Git
6 2 (9.52%) UI Automator
7 1 (4.76%) Mocha
7 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
7 1 (4.76%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Electronics
1 4 (19.05%) Games
2 3 (14.29%) Automotive
2 3 (14.29%) Health Technology
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Spring
1 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Playwright
3 3 (14.29%) Web Services
3 3 (14.29%) WireMock
4 2 (9.52%) ADO
4 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.52%) Java EE
4 2 (9.52%) OpenJDK
4 2 (9.52%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
5 1 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Android
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
1 2 (9.52%) Mac OS X
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) QA Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) API Testing
6 4 (19.05%) BDD
6 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
6 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) SDET
6 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) User Experience
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Fintech
7 3 (14.29%) Integration Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (19.05%) ISO 9001
2 4 (19.05%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle