Test Automation Jobs in England

Automated Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 36 35
Rank change year-on-year -76 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,169 5,495 12,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.32% 6.60% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 6.91% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 2,411 5,144
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,185 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,689 79,484 137,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.98% 95.48% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55,784 48,470 74,128
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,881 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in England

Test Automation
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 -70 669 £70,000 -5.41% 202
South East -50 510 £55,000 -4.35% 99
North of England -79 377 £55,000 -4.35% 101
Midlands -98 241 £50,000 -13.04% 70
North West -67 234 £56,250 -2.17% 75
South West -64 231 £55,000 - 65
West Midlands -75 180 £52,500 -12.50% 44
East of England -80 117 £55,000 -15.38% 57
Yorkshire -75 116 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East Midlands -114 60 £47,500 -13.64% 26
North East -49 27 £64,232 +11.71% 6
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 74 (3.41%) Confluence
2 32 (1.48%) Apache
3 26 (1.20%) IIS
4 22 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 17 (0.78%) CMS
6 11 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.37%) nginx
7 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.32%) SAS
9 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.28%) WordPress
10 4 (0.18%) JBoss
10 4 (0.18%) TWiki
11 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.092%) Drupal
11 2 (0.092%) Moodle
11 2 (0.092%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.046%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 28 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.18%) Simulink
7 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.092%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.046%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 40 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.37%) Magento
3 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.092%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.092%) Endur
5 2 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.092%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.046%) Findur
6 1 (0.046%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.046%) Postilion
6 1 (0.046%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.046%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 578 (26.65%) Azure
2 550 (25.36%) AWS
3 211 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 180 (8.30%) SaaS
5 126 (5.81%) GCP
6 125 (5.76%) GitHub
7 106 (4.89%) Amazon S3
8 96 (4.43%) Serverless
9 95 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (3.00%) OCI
11 61 (2.81%) Power Platform
12 60 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (2.77%) IBM Cloud
13 58 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
13 58 (2.67%) Route 53
14 57 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.40%) PaaS
16 51 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
17 40 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
17 40 (1.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.77%) 5G
2 45 (2.07%) Wireless
3 40 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
4 35 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 35 (1.61%) WAN
5 34 (1.57%) Internet
6 32 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.43%) DNS
7 31 (1.43%) HTTP
8 28 (1.29%) Bluetooth
9 22 (1.01%) Firewall
9 22 (1.01%) GSM
9 22 (1.01%) ISDN
9 22 (1.01%) LTE
9 22 (1.01%) PSTN
9 22 (1.01%) UMTS
10 20 (0.92%) Network Security
11 19 (0.88%) MQTT
12 15 (0.69%) RS-485
13 14 (0.65%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (9.08%) SQL Server
2 138 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 109 (5.03%) MySQL
4 104 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 86 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (3.87%) MongoDB
7 78 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
8 41 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 40 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (0.97%) Power BI
12 19 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.83%) Big Data
14 15 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.69%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.69%) Redis
15 14 (0.65%) DB2
16 12 (0.55%) MariaDB
17 8 (0.37%) Tableau
18 7 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 328 (15.12%) Selenium
2 317 (14.62%) Git
3 226 (10.42%) JIRA
4 189 (8.71%) Jenkins
5 115 (5.30%) Cucumber
6 101 (4.66%) Postman
7 89 (4.10%) JMeter
8 81 (3.73%) Cypress.io
9 76 (3.50%) JUnit
10 72 (3.32%) Visual Studio
11 69 (3.18%) Appium
11 69 (3.18%) GitLab
12 60 (2.77%) TeamCity
13 57 (2.63%) SpecFlow
14 56 (2.58%) WebDriver
15 46 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
16 44 (2.03%) LabVIEW
17 41 (1.89%) REST Assured
18 36 (1.66%) SonarQube
19 33 (1.52%) TestRail
General
1 582 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 380 (17.52%) Finance
3 227 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 221 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 135 (6.22%) Law
7 100 (4.61%) Retail
8 86 (3.96%) Banking
9 77 (3.55%) Electronics
10 76 (3.50%) Marketing
11 67 (3.09%) Aerospace
12 60 (2.77%) Automotive
13 58 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 56 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 52 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
16 44 (2.03%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.75%) Legal
18 33 (1.52%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.34%) Front Office
20 22 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 512 (23.61%) Developer
2 416 (19.18%) Senior
3 308 (14.20%) Software Engineer
4 253 (11.66%) Lead
5 153 (7.05%) Test Engineer
6 144 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 139 (6.41%) Tester
8 119 (5.49%) Analyst
9 112 (5.16%) Senior Developer
10 107 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 92 (4.24%) QA Engineer
13 80 (3.69%) Java Engineer
14 79 (3.64%) Test Analyst
15 76 (3.50%) Full Stack Developer
16 75 (3.46%) Automation Tester
17 67 (3.09%) .NET Developer
18 66 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
18 66 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 52 (2.40%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (17.61%) .NET
2 195 (8.99%) React
3 185 (8.53%) REST
4 157 (7.24%) HTML
5 149 (6.87%) RESTful
6 147 (6.78%) CSS
7 122 (5.62%) Node.js
8 117 (5.39%) AngularJS
9 114 (5.26%) Web Services
10 101 (4.66%) JSON
11 96 (4.43%) .NET Core
12 89 (4.10%) ASP.NET
13 85 (3.92%) Spring
14 78 (3.60%) .NET Framework
15 67 (3.09%) Playwright
15 67 (3.09%) XML
16 55 (2.54%) Spring Boot
17 47 (2.17%) Vue
18 45 (2.07%) Gherkin
19 41 (1.89%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
2 100 (4.61%) Mobile App
3 98 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 74 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 65 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 62 (2.86%) e-Learning
7 61 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 60 (2.77%) Blockchain
9 48 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (1.84%) Satnav
11 36 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.52%) Onboarding
13 32 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
13 32 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 30 (1.38%) Blog
15 29 (1.34%) IoT
16 27 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (1.11%) GNSS
18 23 (1.06%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 258 (11.89%) Linux
2 161 (7.42%) Windows
3 56 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 52 (2.40%) Android
5 45 (2.07%) Unix
6 27 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
8 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
11 10 (0.46%) Debian
11 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.18%) VMS
15 3 (0.14%) CentOS
15 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.092%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (52.51%) Agile
2 731 (33.70%) DevOps
3 553 (25.50%) Software Engineering
4 534 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 493 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 458 (21.12%) Software Testing
7 435 (20.06%) Mentoring
8 337 (15.54%) Scrum
9 311 (14.34%) Coaching
10 306 (14.11%) Continuous Integration
11 267 (12.31%) TDD
12 266 (12.26%) Microservices
13 251 (11.57%) Computer Science
14 242 (11.16%) Containerisation
15 229 (10.56%) Test Scripting
16 222 (10.24%) Test Strategy
17 199 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 194 (8.94%) Full Stack Development
18 194 (8.94%) SDLC
19 174 (8.02%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 508 (23.42%) Java
2 491 (22.64%) C#
3 465 (21.44%) SQL
4 461 (21.25%) Python
5 415 (19.13%) JavaScript
6 177 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 142 (6.55%) C
8 141 (6.50%) C++
9 83 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 78 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 75 (3.46%) PHP
12 56 (2.58%) Bash
13 48 (2.21%) Go
14 33 (1.52%) MATLAB
15 32 (1.48%) Ruby
16 31 (1.43%) Perl
16 31 (1.43%) T-SQL
17 29 (1.34%) Scala
18 23 (1.06%) Rust
19 20 (0.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 442 (20.38%) Degree
2 273 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 164 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 158 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (4.61%) ISTQB
6 69 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 42 (1.94%) ISEB
8 39 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 25 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.51%) HND
14 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.18%) CIPD
17 4 (0.18%) HNC
17 4 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (24.39%) QA
2 37 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.66%) GDPR
4 23 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
5 22 (1.01%) PMO
6 16 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.69%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.69%) NCSC
8 10 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.46%) JTAG
8 10 (0.46%) SLA
9 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.32%) PSD2
11 3 (0.14%) ITGC
11 3 (0.14%) MISRA
11 3 (0.14%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.14%) SOC 1
11 3 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.092%) Def Stans
System Software
1 242 (11.16%) Docker
2 45 (2.07%) Firmware
3 26 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
4 23 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.78%) Active Directory
6 16 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.28%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.092%) Varnish
11 2 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 259 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 233 (10.74%) Terraform
3 117 (5.39%) Ansible
4 59 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.57%) Progress Chef
6 32 (1.48%) Puppet
7 29 (1.34%) Grafana
8 15 (0.69%) Kibana
9 14 (0.65%) Nagios
10 10 (0.46%) Packer
11 8 (0.37%) Graphite
11 8 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 8 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.32%) MIIS
13 6 (0.28%) Istio
14 5 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.18%) Salt
15 4 (0.18%) WMI
16 3 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 254 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.18%) Google
3 68 (3.14%) IBM
4 67 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 62 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 37 (1.71%) Oracle
7 31 (1.43%) Xamarin
8 24 (1.11%) YouTube
9 23 (1.06%) SAP
10 22 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 21 (0.97%) UiPath
12 19 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 19 (0.88%) Databricks
13 16 (0.74%) Splunk
13 16 (0.74%) VMware
14 15 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
15 14 (0.65%) BT
16 13 (0.60%) Sybase
17 11 (0.51%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.46%) Blue Prism