QA Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA 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 745 631 681
Rank change year-on-year -114 +50 -49
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 35 97 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 28 61 102
10th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £74,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

QA 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the UK excluding London

QA Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the UK excluding 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
South East -35 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
Scotland - 12 £52,500 -
North of England 0 6 £52,500 -12.50% 1
North West -28 6 £52,500 -16.00%
East of England -38 2 £38,000 - 1
South West -43 2 £66,250 +1.92%
Wales +12 1 £82,500 +32.00%
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) BrowserStack
6 2 (5.71%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Cypress.io
2 13 (37.14%) Selenium
3 9 (25.71%) Postman
4 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (17.14%) Cucumber
6 5 (14.29%) JIRA
6 5 (14.29%) JMeter
7 4 (11.43%) Git
8 3 (8.57%) Appium
8 3 (8.57%) JUnit
8 3 (8.57%) Mockito
8 3 (8.57%) SpecFlow
9 2 (5.71%) NUnit
9 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (5.71%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
9 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.86%) Subversion
10 1 (2.86%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (11.43%) Electronics
1 4 (11.43%) Games
2 3 (8.57%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) QA Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Lead
2 10 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) QA Leader
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.71%) QA Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
6 1 (2.86%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Head of Test
6 1 (2.86%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (2.86%) QA Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) Playwright
2 7 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) Spring
3 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.57%) Swagger
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
3 3 (8.57%) WireMock
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.86%) COM
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Test Automation
2 21 (60.00%) Agile
3 13 (37.14%) Software Testing
4 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 8 (22.86%) API Testing
5 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Performance Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Test Scripting
8 5 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
8 5 (14.29%) Microservices
8 5 (14.29%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) BDD
9 4 (11.43%) Manual Testing
9 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Test Strategy
10 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Java
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.14%) C#
3 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 9001
2 4 (11.43%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.86%) VMware