Test Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automated Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 35 37
Rank change year-on-year -68 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1,946 3,797 5,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.47% 6.81% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 7.14% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,384 3,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,825 £34,825
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.26% +6.22%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,849 53,205 71,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43,309 28,441 41,725
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK excluding London

Test Automation
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 Test Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -53 504 £55,000 -4.35% 99
Scotland -25 393 £50,000 -16.67% 47
North of England -83 377 £55,000 -4.35% 99
Midlands -106 241 £50,000 -13.04% 72
North West -67 234 £57,500 - 73
South West -64 230 £55,000 - 65
West Midlands -75 179 £52,500 -12.50% 45
East of England -78 118 £55,000 -15.38% 57
Yorkshire -66 116 £55,000 -6.38% 20
Wales -29 70 £50,000 +11.11% 9
East Midlands -119 61 £47,500 -13.64% 27
North East -53 27 £64,232 +11.71% 6
Northern Ireland -20 12 £57,500 +9.52% 19
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 - 1
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
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 97 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.29%) Confluence
3 24 (1.23%) Apache
4 19 (0.98%) CMS
5 16 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
7 9 (0.46%) IIS
8 8 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 6 (0.31%) WordPress
10 4 (0.21%) JBoss
10 4 (0.21%) TWiki
11 3 (0.15%) WildFly
12 2 (0.10%) nginx
13 1 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.051%) Drupal
13 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.21%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.21%) Simulink
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.10%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.051%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.051%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.051%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.41%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.051%) Postilion
5 1 (0.051%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 462 (23.74%) AWS
2 435 (22.35%) Azure
3 167 (8.58%) SaaS
4 125 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (4.52%) GitHub
6 75 (3.85%) GCP
7 60 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 59 (3.03%) OCI
9 54 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (2.57%) IBM Cloud
11 48 (2.47%) Route 53
12 47 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
12 47 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
13 40 (2.06%) Serverless
14 34 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.70%) BlazeMeter
16 31 (1.59%) Power Automate
16 31 (1.59%) Power Platform
17 29 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
17 29 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.49%) Kerberos
2 60 (3.08%) 5G
3 41 (2.11%) Wireless
4 40 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (1.80%) SD-WAN
5 35 (1.80%) WAN
6 28 (1.44%) Bluetooth
7 25 (1.28%) HTTP
8 22 (1.13%) GSM
8 22 (1.13%) ISDN
8 22 (1.13%) LTE
8 22 (1.13%) PSTN
8 22 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.13%) UMTS
9 21 (1.08%) Internet
10 19 (0.98%) Network Security
11 18 (0.92%) MQTT
12 16 (0.82%) DNS
13 15 (0.77%) RS-485
14 14 (0.72%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (9.35%) NoSQL
2 124 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 81 (4.16%) Apache Hive
3 81 (4.16%) HBase
4 80 (4.11%) MySQL
5 78 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
6 73 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.34%) Metadata
7 65 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 55 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 55 (2.83%) Big Data
9 53 (2.72%) Hadoop
10 31 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 21 (1.08%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.98%) Tableau
15 17 (0.87%) DB2
16 13 (0.67%) Power BI
17 12 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 415 (21.33%) Git
2 320 (16.44%) Jenkins
3 289 (14.85%) Selenium
4 196 (10.07%) JIRA
5 119 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 112 (5.76%) Bitbucket
7 105 (5.40%) Cypress.io
8 98 (5.04%) JMeter
9 89 (4.57%) Postman
10 85 (4.37%) Bitbucket Server
11 73 (3.75%) Visual Studio
12 67 (3.44%) Artifactory
13 65 (3.34%) Appium
14 45 (2.31%) JUnit
15 44 (2.26%) LabVIEW
16 43 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
17 40 (2.06%) TeamCity
18 38 (1.95%) WebDriver
19 37 (1.90%) GitLab
19 37 (1.90%) SpecFlow
General
1 480 (24.67%) Finance
2 465 (23.90%) Social Skills
3 383 (19.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 306 (15.72%) Law
5 199 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 171 (8.79%) Marketing
7 143 (7.35%) Public Sector
8 94 (4.83%) Banking
8 94 (4.83%) Legal
9 83 (4.27%) Electronics
10 78 (4.01%) Retail
11 65 (3.34%) Aerospace
12 57 (2.93%) Automotive
13 54 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (2.36%) Investment Banking
15 42 (2.16%) Games
16 41 (2.11%) Manufacturing
17 38 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (1.85%) Telecoms
19 34 (1.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 442 (22.71%) Developer
2 433 (22.25%) Software Engineer
3 329 (16.91%) Senior
4 255 (13.10%) Lead
5 180 (9.25%) Test Engineer
6 141 (7.25%) Tester
7 115 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 113 (5.81%) QA Engineer
9 105 (5.40%) Java Engineer
10 100 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 97 (4.98%) Software Developer
12 90 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
13 88 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
14 87 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
15 83 (4.27%) Analyst
16 78 (4.01%) Senior Developer
17 75 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
18 61 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
19 60 (3.08%) Automation Tester
20 59 (3.03%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (13.36%) .NET
2 196 (10.07%) RESTful
3 171 (8.79%) React
4 157 (8.07%) HTML
5 147 (7.55%) CSS
6 131 (6.73%) JSON
7 127 (6.53%) Web Services
8 110 (5.65%) XML
9 105 (5.40%) REST
10 94 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 90 (4.62%) Spring
11 90 (4.62%) Spring Boot
12 86 (4.42%) Node.js
13 82 (4.21%) OpenID
14 72 (3.70%) .NET Core
15 68 (3.49%) LDAP
15 68 (3.49%) SAML
16 65 (3.34%) ASP.NET
16 65 (3.34%) JSON-LD
17 58 (2.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 123 (6.32%) Algorithms
3 106 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 97 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 76 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 73 (3.75%) Mobile App
7 70 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 65 (3.34%) Reference Data
9 64 (3.29%) Cloud Native
10 54 (2.77%) e-Learning
11 49 (2.52%) Blockchain
11 49 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (2.00%) IoT
12 39 (2.00%) Satnav
13 33 (1.70%) Market Risk
14 32 (1.64%) Onboarding
15 30 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
16 26 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (1.34%) Low-Code
17 25 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 212 (10.89%) Linux
2 134 (6.89%) Windows
3 113 (5.81%) Unix
4 37 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.70%) Android
6 27 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 19 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.51%) Debian
11 9 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.21%) VMS
14 3 (0.15%) CentOS
15 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,118 (57.45%) Agile
2 643 (33.04%) Software Engineering
3 580 (29.80%) CI/CD
4 548 (28.16%) DevOps
5 458 (23.54%) Software Testing
6 417 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 380 (19.53%) SDLC
8 354 (18.19%) Mentoring
9 286 (14.70%) TDD
10 261 (13.41%) Continuous Integration
11 252 (12.95%) Coaching
12 248 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 238 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
14 234 (12.02%) Scrum
15 226 (11.61%) Microservices
16 206 (10.59%) Test Scripting
17 204 (10.48%) Operational Stability
18 195 (10.02%) Computer Science
18 195 (10.02%) Roadmaps
19 191 (9.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 486 (24.97%) SQL
2 482 (24.77%) Java
3 446 (22.92%) Python
4 387 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 373 (19.17%) C#
6 143 (7.35%) C
7 122 (6.27%) C++
8 120 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 111 (5.70%) PL/SQL
10 106 (5.45%) Go
11 70 (3.60%) PHP
12 65 (3.34%) Prolog
12 65 (3.34%) SPARQL
13 52 (2.67%) Kotlin
14 40 (2.06%) PowerShell
15 38 (1.95%) Bash
16 33 (1.70%) MATLAB
16 33 (1.70%) T-SQL
17 25 (1.28%) Ruby
18 18 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 372 (19.12%) Degree
2 228 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 138 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 112 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (4.68%) ISTQB
6 61 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.64%) ISEB
9 24 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 22 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 12 (0.62%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.57%) HND
14 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.21%) CIPD
16 4 (0.21%) HNC
16 4 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 493 (25.33%) QA
2 31 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 31 (1.59%) GDPR
3 22 (1.13%) ISO 9001
3 22 (1.13%) Software Quality Assurance
4 20 (1.03%) PMO
5 16 (0.82%) SLA
6 11 (0.57%) NCSC
7 10 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.51%) WAI
8 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.41%) MISRA
9 7 (0.36%) JTAG
9 7 (0.36%) PSD2
10 4 (0.21%) DICOM
10 4 (0.21%) HL7
10 4 (0.21%) ISO 13485
10 4 (0.21%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 183 (9.40%) Docker
2 81 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 81 (4.16%) HDFS
3 40 (2.06%) Firmware
4 26 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 16 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.21%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 225 (11.56%) Terraform
2 187 (9.61%) Kubernetes
3 81 (4.16%) Ansible
4 52 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 13 (0.67%) Grafana
6 13 (0.67%) Kibana
7 9 (0.46%) Puppet
8 7 (0.36%) MIIS
9 4 (0.21%) WMI
10 3 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.10%) Nagios
11 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.051%) Iperf
12 1 (0.051%) Nessus
12 1 (0.051%) Nmap
12 1 (0.051%) Podman
Vendors
1 203 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.14%) Databricks
3 81 (4.16%) Informatica
4 61 (3.13%) Oracle
5 56 (2.88%) IBM
6 54 (2.77%) Dynatrace
6 54 (2.77%) Red Hat
7 51 (2.62%) Cloudera
8 46 (2.36%) Google
9 29 (1.49%) Xamarin
10 19 (0.98%) Alteryx
11 17 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.77%) Sybase
13 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.72%) SAP
13 14 (0.72%) Splunk
14 13 (0.67%) BT
14 13 (0.67%) Cognos
15 12 (0.62%) YouTube
16 11 (0.57%) VMware