Test Automation Jobs in South London

Automated Testing
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 53 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -37 +8 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 39 106 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 4.34% 17.26% 17.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 18.83% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 33 24 77
10th Percentile - £38,350 £36,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £49,375 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +11.90% -19.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 849 563 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 94.54% 91.69% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 357 344 628
10th Percentile £27,221 £31,250 £29,849
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -12.94%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £63,758
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £79,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South London

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South London

Test Automation
Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Croydon -1 26 £57,500 -23.33% 1
Kingston Upon Thames -22 9 £47,500 -8.65% 1
Merton -9 5 £85,000 - 1
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 9 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) Serverless
3 8 (20.51%) AWS
4 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Selenium
2 10 (25.64%) Cucumber
2 10 (25.64%) JUnit
2 10 (25.64%) TestNG
3 9 (23.08%) REST Assured
3 9 (23.08%) WebDriver
4 6 (15.38%) JIRA
5 4 (10.26%) Git
5 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.56%) JMeter
7 1 (2.56%) Mocha
7 1 (2.56%) Postman
7 1 (2.56%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (17.95%) Police
5 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Local Government
6 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Automation Tester
2 8 (20.51%) Tester
3 7 (17.95%) Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Test Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Systems Test Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Automation Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Developer in Test
8 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) REST
2 9 (23.08%) Apache Commons
2 9 (23.08%) Guava
2 9 (23.08%) Java Concurrency
2 9 (23.08%) WireMock
3 6 (15.38%) Node.js
4 5 (12.82%) Spring
4 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.26%) .NET
5 4 (10.26%) CSS
5 4 (10.26%) Web Services
6 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.69%) Apache Camel
6 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (7.69%) JSON
6 3 (7.69%) XML
7 2 (5.13%) HTML
8 1 (2.56%) Celery
8 1 (2.56%) React
8 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Wiki
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) Scrum
3 16 (41.03%) Software Testing
4 13 (33.33%) DevOps
5 12 (30.77%) BDD
5 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 12 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
5 12 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
6 11 (28.21%) Coaching
6 11 (28.21%) Mentoring
7 10 (25.64%) API Testing
7 10 (25.64%) Code Quality
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
8 9 (23.08%) Design Patterns
8 9 (23.08%) Kanban
9 8 (20.51%) Performance Testing
10 7 (17.95%) Compatibility Testing
10 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (15.38%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Java
2 14 (35.90%) C#
3 10 (25.64%) Python
3 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Sun Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Def Stans
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) YouTube
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) WSO2
4 2 (5.13%) Progress