Test Automation Jobs in Bristol

Automated Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -57 -4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 68 157 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.92% 6.39% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 6.69% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 57 91 172
10th Percentile £39,108 £35,483 £37,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £69,609
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,977 2,348 3,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 84.12% 95.52% 97.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,409 2,137
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,723 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,162 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,191 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.62% +15.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £86,250
South West median annual salary £51,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +7.04% +8.70%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Bristol

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (7.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) AWS
2 14 (20.59%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
4 4 (5.88%) npm
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.94%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.94%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CodeStar
7 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Selenium
2 13 (19.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.65%) Git
4 11 (16.18%) JIRA
5 6 (8.82%) SpecFlow
6 4 (5.88%) Maven
6 4 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.88%) Storybook
6 4 (5.88%) Zephyr
7 3 (4.41%) Appium
7 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.41%) JMeter
7 3 (4.41%) Moq
7 3 (4.41%) Postman
7 3 (4.41%) xUnit.net
8 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.47%) Gatling
9 1 (1.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (35.29%) Finance
3 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (16.18%) Electronics
5 6 (8.82%) Automotive
5 6 (8.82%) Banking
6 5 (7.35%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.88%) Retail
8 2 (2.94%) Legal
8 2 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 18 (26.47%) Software Developer
3 16 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 15 (22.06%) Senior
5 12 (17.65%) Lead
6 10 (14.71%) Test Leader
7 8 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Compiler Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) iOS Developer
10 4 (5.88%) iOS Software Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Senior iOS Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (4.41%) CRM Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (4.41%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) .NET
2 8 (11.76%) Node.js
3 7 (10.29%) React
4 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.88%) LLVM
5 4 (5.88%) RESTful
5 4 (5.88%) Sass
6 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.41%) Redux
6 3 (4.41%) Spring
7 2 (2.94%) Playwright
8 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.47%) Flutter
8 1 (1.47%) Jest
8 1 (1.47%) Next.js
8 1 (1.47%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (5.88%) IoT
1 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Driving Licence
2 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.94%) iPhone
4 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.47%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Apple iOS
2 13 (19.12%) Windows
3 5 (7.35%) Linux
4 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) DevOps
1 28 (41.18%) Software Engineering
2 27 (39.71%) Agile
2 27 (39.71%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 21 (30.88%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (23.53%) Line Management
7 15 (22.06%) iOS Development
8 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 11 (16.18%) Refactoring
9 11 (16.18%) System Integration Testing
9 11 (16.18%) User Experience
9 11 (16.18%) UX Design
10 10 (14.71%) Analytical Thinking
10 10 (14.71%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
11 9 (13.24%) BDD
11 9 (13.24%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) Java
2 23 (33.82%) JavaScript
3 16 (23.53%) C#
4 12 (17.65%) SQL
5 8 (11.76%) Python
5 8 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.88%) C
6 4 (5.88%) Go
6 4 (5.88%) Swift
7 3 (4.41%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) C++
7 3 (4.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 7 (10.29%) Progress Chef
3 7 (10.29%) Terraform
4 3 (4.41%) Argo
4 3 (4.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Xamarin
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (4.41%) Blue Prism
4 3 (4.41%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.41%) UiPath
5 2 (2.94%) Apple
5 2 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.47%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.47%) Netlify
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Veracode