Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -71 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 662 2,316 6,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.80% 6.87% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 7.20% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 478 1,238 2,333
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £55,293 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £100,000
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
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 32,155 68,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.97% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,872 23,232 34,355
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,171 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -11 112 £80,000 +2.89% 23
South London -27 43 £57,500 -8.00% 6
West London -60 10 £63,750 +27.50% 14
East London +13 3 £80,000 +77.78% 52
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (4.38%) Confluence
2 16 (2.42%) Apache
2 16 (2.42%) IIS
3 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.76%) nginx
5 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.60%) WordPress
6 3 (0.45%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Findur
4 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 249 (37.61%) AWS
2 208 (31.42%) Azure
3 91 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (11.48%) GCP
5 51 (7.70%) Serverless
6 49 (7.40%) Amazon S3
7 48 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (6.19%) SaaS
9 36 (5.44%) GitHub
10 35 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (4.38%) Power Platform
12 21 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.02%) PaaS
14 18 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.42%) OpenShift
16 15 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (1.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.72%) DNS
2 14 (2.11%) Internet
3 11 (1.66%) Firewall
3 11 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.36%) SNMP
4 9 (1.36%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.91%) HTTP
6 4 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.30%) SMTP
7 2 (0.30%) SSH
7 2 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.15%) SMS
8 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.39%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 43 (6.50%) MongoDB
4 39 (5.89%) Relational Database
5 38 (5.74%) MySQL
6 30 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.11%) Big Data
11 11 (1.66%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.51%) DB2
13 9 (1.36%) Power BI
14 8 (1.21%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.21%) Metadata
15 5 (0.76%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.76%) SAP HANA
16 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 112 (16.92%) Git
2 80 (12.08%) Selenium
3 67 (10.12%) JIRA
4 65 (9.82%) Jenkins
5 42 (6.34%) Cucumber
6 41 (6.19%) JUnit
7 30 (4.53%) GitLab
8 28 (4.23%) Cypress.io
9 26 (3.93%) WebDriver
10 25 (3.78%) JMeter
11 23 (3.47%) REST Assured
11 23 (3.47%) TeamCity
12 21 (3.17%) Postman
13 20 (3.02%) TestNG
14 19 (2.87%) Visual Studio
15 15 (2.27%) SpecFlow
16 12 (1.81%) SoapUI
17 10 (1.51%) Appium
17 10 (1.51%) SonarQube
18 9 (1.36%) TestRail
General
1 185 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 165 (24.92%) Finance
3 98 (14.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (9.82%) Law
5 64 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.80%) Banking
8 38 (5.74%) Marketing
9 29 (4.38%) Front Office
10 27 (4.08%) Retail
11 18 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.96%) Legal
13 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.81%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.06%) Back Office
15 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.06%) Police
16 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (23.87%) Developer
2 149 (22.51%) Senior
3 103 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 102 (15.41%) Lead
5 51 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (6.19%) Senior Developer
7 38 (5.74%) Tester
8 34 (5.14%) Analyst
8 34 (5.14%) Java Engineer
9 33 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (4.53%) .NET Developer
10 30 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.23%) Full Stack Developer
12 26 (3.93%) QA Engineer
13 21 (3.17%) Java Developer
13 21 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
13 21 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.02%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.87%) Automation Tester
15 19 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (21.75%) .NET
2 106 (16.01%) REST
3 93 (14.05%) React
4 58 (8.76%) Web Services
5 53 (8.01%) AngularJS
6 49 (7.40%) JSON
7 48 (7.25%) Spring
8 41 (6.19%) HTML
9 40 (6.04%) Node.js
10 39 (5.89%) .NET Framework
10 39 (5.89%) CSS
11 37 (5.59%) ASP.NET
12 36 (5.44%) RESTful
13 34 (5.14%) XML
14 28 (4.23%) .NET Core
14 28 (4.23%) Spring Boot
15 26 (3.93%) Playwright
16 19 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (2.72%) Redux
18 16 (2.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.23%) Cloud Native
1 28 (4.23%) Mobile App
2 25 (3.78%) Blog
3 24 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 21 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.27%) Hedge funds
9 14 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.81%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.81%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.66%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.66%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.51%) Clustering
14 9 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.46%) Linux
2 27 (4.08%) Windows
3 22 (3.32%) Android
4 20 (3.02%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.27%) Unix
6 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (49.85%) Agile
2 238 (35.95%) DevOps
3 207 (31.27%) CI/CD
4 176 (26.59%) Software Engineering
5 137 (20.69%) Microservices
6 121 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (17.67%) Software Testing
8 115 (17.37%) Scrum
9 114 (17.22%) Mentoring
10 100 (15.11%) TDD
11 97 (14.65%) Continuous Integration
12 83 (12.54%) Test Strategy
13 81 (12.24%) Unit Testing
14 76 (11.48%) Coaching
14 76 (11.48%) Containerisation
15 73 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (10.12%) Computer Science
17 65 (9.82%) SDET
18 62 (9.37%) Code Quality
18 62 (9.37%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 216 (32.63%) Java
2 180 (27.19%) Python
3 153 (23.11%) SQL
4 151 (22.81%) C#
5 131 (19.79%) JavaScript
6 87 (13.14%) TypeScript
7 45 (6.80%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.78%) Perl
9 23 (3.47%) Go
9 23 (3.47%) Kotlin
10 22 (3.32%) Bash
11 21 (3.17%) C++
12 19 (2.87%) Scala
13 13 (1.96%) PHP
14 12 (1.81%) Rust
15 10 (1.51%) Bicep
15 10 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.51%) Swift
15 10 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.21%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (12.69%) Degree
2 50 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.36%) ISEB
9 7 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.60%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.30%) MCAD
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (19.49%) QA
2 15 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.36%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.91%) SLA
7 5 (0.76%) GDPR
8 4 (0.60%) NCSC
8 4 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.45%) ITGC
9 3 (0.45%) JTAG
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (15.11%) Docker
2 9 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.76%) Firmware
4 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.30%) Varnish
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 117 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 113 (17.07%) Terraform
3 46 (6.95%) Ansible
4 27 (4.08%) Puppet
5 20 (3.02%) Grafana
6 16 (2.42%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.96%) Nagios
8 11 (1.66%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.36%) Graphite
9 9 (1.36%) HAProxy
9 9 (1.36%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.21%) Packer
10 8 (1.21%) Salt
11 5 (0.76%) Istio
11 5 (0.76%) Kibana
12 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.45%) Control-M
12 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.45%) logstash
12 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.23%) Google
3 22 (3.32%) Oracle
4 14 (2.11%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.11%) IBM
5 13 (1.96%) Databricks
6 12 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.81%) YouTube
7 11 (1.66%) Sybase
7 11 (1.66%) UiPath
8 8 (1.21%) Xero
9 7 (1.06%) SAP
9 7 (1.06%) Splunk
10 6 (0.91%) Amplitude
10 6 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.91%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.91%) Blue Prism
10 6 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.76%) New Relic
11 5 (0.76%) VMware