Test Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Automated Testing
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 41 31
Rank change year-on-year -71 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 149 363 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.09% 6.36% 7.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 6.72% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 91 120 335
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68,875 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,941 5,401 6,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.42% 94.65% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 3,005 3,894
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Thames Valley

Test Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -51 76 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Buckinghamshire -12 43 £47,500 +2.15% 20
Oxfordshire -50 30 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (9.40%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.05%) Apache
3 9 (6.04%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (6.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.20%) Azure
2 24 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (14.77%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (13.42%) AWS
5 16 (10.74%) Power Automate
6 10 (6.71%) GitHub
7 7 (4.70%) IaaS
7 7 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.03%) SaaS
9 5 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.36%) PaaS
9 5 (3.36%) Serverless
10 4 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.01%) GCP
11 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.44%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (14.77%) 5G
2 22 (14.77%) Bluetooth
2 22 (14.77%) GSM
2 22 (14.77%) ISDN
2 22 (14.77%) LTE
2 22 (14.77%) PSTN
2 22 (14.77%) UMTS
2 22 (14.77%) Wireless
3 4 (2.68%) Internet
4 3 (2.01%) Broadband
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) DNS
5 1 (0.67%) MQTT
5 1 (0.67%) RS-485
5 1 (0.67%) RTP
5 1 (0.67%) VLAN
5 1 (0.67%) VoIP
5 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.40%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.34%) Big Data
5 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.67%) GIS
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (23.49%) Selenium
2 22 (14.77%) LabVIEW
2 22 (14.77%) WebDriver
3 19 (12.75%) Cucumber
3 19 (12.75%) Git
4 13 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.72%) JUnit
5 12 (8.05%) REST Assured
5 12 (8.05%) TestNG
5 12 (8.05%) Visual Studio
6 11 (7.38%) NUnit
7 8 (5.37%) TestRail
8 6 (4.03%) JIRA
9 5 (3.36%) JMeter
9 5 (3.36%) Postman
10 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.68%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.01%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
General
1 23 (15.44%) Telecoms
2 22 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 22 (14.77%) Law
3 18 (12.08%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Retail
7 7 (4.70%) Back Office
7 7 (4.70%) Police
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.34%) Electronics
9 2 (1.34%) Finance
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Developer
2 16 (10.74%) Consultant
3 15 (10.07%) Hardware Engineer
3 15 (10.07%) QA Engineer
3 15 (10.07%) Test Engineer
4 14 (9.40%) Analyst
4 14 (9.40%) Tester
5 13 (8.72%) Automation Tester
5 13 (8.72%) CRM Consultant
5 13 (8.72%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 13 (8.72%) Test Analyst
6 12 (8.05%) Mobile Developer
7 10 (6.71%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Consultant
9 8 (5.37%) Hardware Test Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
10 7 (4.70%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
10 7 (4.70%) Systems Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.81%) .NET
2 19 (12.75%) .NET Core
3 18 (12.08%) REST
4 16 (10.74%) Web Services
5 15 (10.07%) JSON
6 13 (8.72%) XML
7 12 (8.05%) React Native
7 12 (8.05%) WireMock
8 11 (7.38%) Apache Commons
8 11 (7.38%) Guava
8 11 (7.38%) Java Concurrency
9 9 (6.04%) CSS
10 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.36%) Node.js
11 5 (3.36%) React
11 5 (3.36%) Spring
11 5 (3.36%) Spring Boot
12 4 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.68%) RESTful
13 3 (2.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Acoustics
1 22 (14.77%) Satnav
2 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.70%) Life Science
3 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.01%) IoT
4 3 (2.01%) Robotics
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.67%) Molecular Biology
6 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.07%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) CentOS
2 2 (1.34%) Debian
2 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) Agile
2 51 (34.23%) DevOps
3 38 (25.50%) Continuous Integration
4 36 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 28 (18.79%) Coaching
5 28 (18.79%) SDET
5 28 (18.79%) Test Scripting
6 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (18.12%) Software Testing
7 26 (17.45%) Containerisation
8 25 (16.78%) CRM
9 24 (16.11%) Scrum
10 22 (14.77%) Critical Thinking
10 22 (14.77%) Data Management
11 21 (14.09%) Microservices
12 20 (13.42%) Manual Testing
13 19 (12.75%) API Testing
13 19 (12.75%) Software Engineering
14 18 (12.08%) Artificial Intelligence
14 18 (12.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.19%) C#
1 42 (28.19%) Python
2 38 (25.50%) SQL
3 27 (18.12%) Java
4 15 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.03%) Bash
5 6 (4.03%) Ruby
6 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.01%) C
8 2 (1.34%) Go
8 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.67%) C++
9 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (38.93%) Degree
2 28 (18.79%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.71%) ISTQB
6 8 (5.37%) DBS Check
6 8 (5.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.70%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.34%) ISEB
9 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (32.89%) QA
System Software
1 33 (22.15%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (24.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.71%) Ansible
3 7 (4.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.34%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.67%) Kibana
5 1 (0.67%) Packer
5 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) Xamarin
3 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.01%) Conga
4 3 (2.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (2.01%) WSO2
5 2 (1.34%) Google
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.67%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.67%) YouTube