Test Automation Jobs in the South West

Automated Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 111 50 37
Rank change year-on-year -61 -13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 231 350 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.19% 5.43% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 5.74% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 128 197 366
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,675
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,437 6,100 8,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 79.87% 94.60% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,959 3,496 4,999
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,241
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £53,519 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +7.04% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,675 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the South West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -57 68 £62,500 +4.17% 15
Devon +1 67 £62,500 +42.86% 13
Gloucestershire -31 40 £65,000 +23.81% 13
Dorset -11 39 £52,500 -7.08% 11
Wiltshire -29 12 £51,750 -23.33% 8
Somerset -27 3 £45,000 -5.26% 11
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (6.49%) Confluence
2 9 (3.90%) Apache
3 6 (2.60%) SAS
4 4 (1.73%) CMS
4 4 (1.73%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.58%) AWS
2 24 (10.39%) Azure
3 13 (5.63%) npm
4 11 (4.76%) GitHub
5 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.60%) GCP
7 5 (2.16%) OCI
7 5 (2.16%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.73%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.73%) Route 53
9 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.30%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.87%) Datadog
10 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.15%) 5G
1 35 (15.15%) SD-WAN
1 35 (15.15%) WAN
2 9 (3.90%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.46%) DNS
3 8 (3.46%) HTTP
3 8 (3.46%) Internet
3 8 (3.46%) SMTP
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Broadband
5 1 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.93%) MySQL
2 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.60%) Power BI
5 6 (2.60%) Tableau
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.73%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.87%) DB2
8 2 (0.87%) GIS
8 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Big Data
9 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (14.72%) JIRA
2 33 (14.29%) Git
2 33 (14.29%) Selenium
3 31 (13.42%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.63%) Storybook
6 11 (4.76%) TeamCity
7 10 (4.33%) Postman
8 9 (3.90%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.90%) Subversion
9 8 (3.46%) LabVIEW
9 8 (3.46%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (3.03%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.60%) SpecFlow
12 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.16%) JMeter
13 4 (1.73%) Appium
13 4 (1.73%) Maven
13 4 (1.73%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.73%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.27%) Finance
3 58 (25.11%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (13.85%) Electronics
6 24 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (8.23%) Law
8 16 (6.93%) Banking
9 15 (6.49%) Public Sector
10 14 (6.06%) Financial Institution
11 13 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (4.33%) Investment Banking
13 8 (3.46%) Legal
14 6 (2.60%) Automotive
14 6 (2.60%) Retail
15 3 (1.30%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.87%) Games
16 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 66 (28.57%) Developer
2 43 (18.61%) Senior
3 30 (12.99%) Software Engineer
4 28 (12.12%) Test Engineer
5 27 (11.69%) Lead
5 27 (11.69%) Software Developer
6 17 (7.36%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.93%) GNSS Engineer
7 16 (6.93%) RF Engineer
8 14 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Project Leader
9 11 (4.76%) QA Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Technical Leader
9 11 (4.76%) Technical Project Leader
10 10 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Test Leader
11 9 (3.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (3.90%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.99%) .NET
2 23 (9.96%) Node.js
3 16 (6.93%) React
4 15 (6.49%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.63%) Sass
6 12 (5.19%) Gherkin
7 11 (4.76%) CSS
7 11 (4.76%) HTML
7 11 (4.76%) Spring
8 10 (4.33%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.90%) LAMP
10 8 (3.46%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.46%) pytest
10 8 (3.46%) RESTful
10 8 (3.46%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.03%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.03%) jQuery
11 7 (3.03%) Laravel
11 7 (3.03%) SVG
12 6 (2.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.55%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (10.39%) GNSS
3 15 (6.49%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.19%) Mobile App
5 11 (4.76%) FPGA
5 11 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.46%) CUDA
7 8 (3.46%) MicroBlaze
7 8 (3.46%) Robotics
7 8 (3.46%) Tandem
7 8 (3.46%) VHDL
8 7 (3.03%) Animation
8 7 (3.03%) Video Editing
9 6 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.60%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.60%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.73%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.78%) Linux
2 42 (18.18%) Windows
3 21 (9.09%) Apple iOS
4 16 (6.93%) Unix
5 8 (3.46%) Debian
5 8 (3.46%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.73%) Android
7 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) CentOS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (49.35%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (37.23%) Agile
3 59 (25.54%) B2B
4 58 (25.11%) DevOps
5 57 (24.68%) Computer Science
6 56 (24.24%) Software Engineering
7 51 (22.08%) CI/CD
8 49 (21.21%) Mentoring
9 42 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 42 (18.18%) Project Delivery
10 40 (17.32%) Scrum
11 37 (16.02%) Continuous Integration
12 35 (15.15%) Test Assurance
13 33 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
14 32 (13.85%) Coaching
15 27 (11.69%) Time Management
16 24 (10.39%) Continuous Delivery
16 24 (10.39%) User Stories
17 23 (9.96%) Defect Tracking
17 23 (9.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (28.57%) Java
2 64 (27.71%) Python
3 49 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.85%) C#
4 32 (13.85%) C++
5 27 (11.69%) C
6 22 (9.52%) SQL
7 19 (8.23%) MATLAB
8 18 (7.79%) TypeScript
9 14 (6.06%) PHP
10 12 (5.19%) Bash
11 8 (3.46%) Go
11 8 (3.46%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.46%) Perl
11 8 (3.46%) Rust
11 8 (3.46%) Tcl
11 8 (3.46%) VB
12 6 (2.60%) R
12 6 (2.60%) Ruby
12 6 (2.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (45.02%) Degree
2 16 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.46%) HND
6 6 (2.60%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.16%) ISEB
8 4 (1.73%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) HNC
10 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.43%) MCSA
11 1 (0.43%) MCSD
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.02%) QA
2 19 (8.23%) PMO
3 7 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.30%) JTAG
5 2 (0.87%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (12.12%) Docker
2 18 (7.79%) Firmware
3 16 (6.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.06%) Terraform
3 10 (4.33%) Ansible
4 9 (3.90%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.16%) Puppet
6 4 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.30%) Argo
8 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.87%) Nagios
8 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.76%) Xamarin
3 9 (3.90%) UiPath
4 8 (3.46%) Altera
4 8 (3.46%) Green Hills
4 8 (3.46%) Motorola
4 8 (3.46%) Xilinx
5 7 (3.03%) Oracle
5 7 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.60%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.60%) Google
6 6 (2.60%) Pega
7 4 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.73%) IBM
8 3 (1.30%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (1.30%) Blue Prism
8 3 (1.30%) Coverity
8 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.87%) New Relic