Automated Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 38 35
Rank change year-on-year -58 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2,785 6,959 13,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 6.87% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 7.18% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,778 3,045 5,567
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the UK

Test Automation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -70 2,162 £60,000 -7.69% 686
UK excluding London -61 1,964 £52,500 -8.70% 492
Work from Home -49 986 £55,000 -15.38% 368
London -64 675 £72,500 -3.33% 230
South East -56 510 £55,000 -7.17% 103
Scotland -32 421 £50,000 -16.67% 45
North of England -77 355 £56,250 -2.17% 124
Midlands -87 249 £50,000 -9.09% 72
South West -58 241 £55,000 +0.92% 72
North West -71 216 £55,000 -4.35% 75
West Midlands -62 187 £52,500 -7.05% 47
Yorkshire -65 107 £55,000 - 45
East of England -85 107 £55,000 -15.38% 70
Wales -27 72 £50,000 +19.05% 14
East Midlands -103 61 £47,500 -13.64% 25
North East -38 32 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Northern Ireland -22 10 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 115 (4.13%) Apache Spark
2 94 (3.38%) Confluence
3 41 (1.47%) Apache
4 29 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 24 (0.86%) IIS
6 18 (0.65%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 13 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.25%) nginx
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
10 7 (0.25%) WordPress
11 5 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.14%) TWiki
13 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 2 (0.072%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.072%) Moodle
14 2 (0.072%) Mule
Applications
1 37 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.14%) Doxygen
6 4 (0.14%) Simulink
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.072%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.036%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.036%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.036%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 43 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.32%) Magento
3 5 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.18%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.072%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.072%) Endur
4 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.072%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.036%) Findur
5 1 (0.036%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.036%) Postilion
5 1 (0.036%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 773 (27.76%) AWS
2 702 (25.21%) Azure
3 257 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (8.08%) SaaS
5 162 (5.82%) GCP
6 145 (5.21%) GitHub
7 128 (4.60%) Serverless
8 108 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 105 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
11 67 (2.41%) Power Platform
12 65 (2.33%) IBM Cloud
13 63 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
14 59 (2.12%) OCI
14 59 (2.12%) Route 53
15 58 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
16 56 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (2.01%) PaaS
17 43 (1.54%) Power Automate
18 39 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.44%) Kerberos
2 63 (2.26%) 5G
3 44 (1.58%) Wireless
4 39 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 38 (1.36%) SD-WAN
5 38 (1.36%) WAN
6 37 (1.33%) Internet
7 35 (1.26%) DNS
7 35 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.15%) HTTP
9 31 (1.11%) Bluetooth
10 23 (0.83%) Firewall
11 22 (0.79%) GSM
11 22 (0.79%) ISDN
11 22 (0.79%) LTE
11 22 (0.79%) PSTN
11 22 (0.79%) UMTS
12 19 (0.68%) MQTT
13 18 (0.65%) DSL
13 18 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (8.37%) NoSQL
2 222 (7.97%) SQL Server
3 126 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 121 (4.34%) MySQL
5 116 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 110 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
7 86 (3.09%) Apache Hive
7 86 (3.09%) Big Data
7 86 (3.09%) HBase
8 82 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 78 (2.80%) Metadata
10 64 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 63 (2.26%) Hadoop
12 51 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
13 49 (1.76%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.40%) Data Lake
15 32 (1.15%) DB2
16 26 (0.93%) Tableau
17 23 (0.83%) Power BI
18 18 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 561 (20.14%) Git
2 415 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 391 (14.04%) Selenium
4 274 (9.84%) JIRA
5 173 (6.21%) Cucumber
6 144 (5.17%) Cypress.io
7 135 (4.85%) Postman
8 131 (4.70%) Bitbucket
9 128 (4.60%) JMeter
10 97 (3.48%) Visual Studio
11 95 (3.41%) Bitbucket Server
12 85 (3.05%) JUnit
13 73 (2.62%) Appium
14 71 (2.55%) GitLab
15 68 (2.44%) Artifactory
16 65 (2.33%) TeamCity
16 65 (2.33%) WebDriver
17 58 (2.08%) SpecFlow
18 57 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
19 53 (1.90%) SoapUI
General
1 710 (25.49%) Finance
2 670 (24.06%) Social Skills
3 521 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 403 (14.47%) Law
5 281 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (8.26%) Marketing
7 206 (7.40%) Public Sector
8 172 (6.18%) Banking
9 113 (4.06%) Retail
10 109 (3.91%) Legal
11 87 (3.12%) Electronics
12 69 (2.48%) Investment Banking
12 69 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 66 (2.37%) Aerospace
14 60 (2.15%) Automotive
14 60 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 57 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 50 (1.80%) Financial Institution
17 46 (1.65%) Manufacturing
18 41 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 693 (24.88%) Developer
2 558 (20.04%) Software Engineer
3 514 (18.46%) Senior
4 399 (14.33%) Lead
5 205 (7.36%) Test Engineer
6 196 (7.04%) Tester
7 157 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 150 (5.39%) QA Engineer
9 149 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 146 (5.24%) Java Engineer
11 134 (4.81%) Senior Developer
12 124 (4.45%) Software Developer
13 117 (4.20%) Analyst
14 115 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
15 111 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
16 108 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
17 91 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
18 81 (2.91%) Data Engineer
19 78 (2.80%) Automation Tester
20 77 (2.76%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 439 (15.76%) .NET
2 281 (10.09%) React
3 251 (9.01%) RESTful
4 221 (7.94%) HTML
5 216 (7.76%) REST
6 209 (7.50%) CSS
7 200 (7.18%) JSON
8 195 (7.00%) Web Services
9 166 (5.96%) XML
10 161 (5.78%) AngularJS
11 149 (5.35%) Node.js
12 148 (5.31%) Spring
13 135 (4.85%) Spring Boot
14 112 (4.02%) .NET Core
15 110 (3.95%) ASP.NET
16 88 (3.16%) OpenID
17 82 (2.94%) .NET Framework
18 77 (2.76%) Playwright
19 72 (2.59%) LDAP
20 71 (2.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 163 (5.85%) Management Information System
2 139 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 115 (4.13%) Mobile App
4 115 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
5 101 (3.63%) Cloud Native
6 88 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 77 (2.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 71 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 67 (2.41%) Reference Data
10 65 (2.33%) e-Learning
11 60 (2.15%) Blockchain
12 51 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.62%) Private Cloud
15 43 (1.54%) Satnav
16 42 (1.51%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.44%) IoT
18 38 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
19 34 (1.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 277 (9.95%) Linux
2 183 (6.57%) Windows
3 139 (4.99%) Unix
4 66 (2.37%) Android
5 65 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
10 12 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
12 10 (0.36%) Debian
13 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.14%) CentOS
14 4 (0.14%) VMS
14 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.072%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,570 (56.37%) Agile
2 850 (30.52%) CI/CD
3 846 (30.38%) Software Engineering
4 842 (30.23%) DevOps
5 583 (20.93%) Software Testing
6 578 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 479 (17.20%) SDLC
8 472 (16.95%) Mentoring
9 446 (16.01%) TDD
10 409 (14.69%) Microservices
11 380 (13.64%) Scrum
12 372 (13.36%) Continuous Integration
13 337 (12.10%) Coaching
14 324 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 303 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
16 273 (9.80%) Computer Science
17 261 (9.37%) Containerisation
17 261 (9.37%) Test Strategy
18 259 (9.30%) Test Scripting
19 249 (8.94%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 733 (26.32%) Java
2 711 (25.53%) SQL
3 654 (23.48%) Python
4 605 (21.72%) C#
5 562 (20.18%) JavaScript
6 254 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 163 (5.85%) C
8 150 (5.39%) C++
9 137 (4.92%) Go
10 129 (4.63%) PL/SQL
11 98 (3.52%) PowerShell
12 86 (3.09%) PHP
13 66 (2.37%) Bash
13 66 (2.37%) SPARQL
14 65 (2.33%) Prolog
15 63 (2.26%) Kotlin
16 47 (1.69%) T-SQL
17 41 (1.47%) Perl
18 38 (1.36%) Scala
19 36 (1.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 469 (16.84%) Degree
2 272 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 173 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 172 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 103 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 59 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.58%) ISEB
8 41 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 22 (0.79%) Azure Certification
12 21 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.57%) HND
13 16 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.22%) HNC
18 5 (0.18%) MCAD
18 5 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 656 (23.55%) QA
2 66 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.29%) GDPR
4 30 (1.08%) ISO 9001
5 28 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
6 27 (0.97%) SLA
7 25 (0.90%) PMO
8 23 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.54%) WAI
10 13 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 13 (0.47%) NCSC
11 10 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.36%) JTAG
12 8 (0.29%) MISRA
12 8 (0.29%) PSD2
13 7 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.18%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) DICOM
15 4 (0.14%) HL7
15 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 282 (10.13%) Docker
2 86 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 86 (3.09%) HDFS
3 42 (1.51%) Firmware
4 27 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
6 18 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.14%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.11%) vSphere
12 2 (0.072%) Varnish
13 1 (0.036%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 351 (12.60%) Terraform
2 309 (11.10%) Kubernetes
3 127 (4.56%) Ansible
4 63 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.47%) Grafana
5 41 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 41 (1.47%) Puppet
6 21 (0.75%) Kibana
7 16 (0.57%) Nagios
8 10 (0.36%) Graphite
8 10 (0.36%) HAProxy
8 10 (0.36%) Salt
8 10 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.32%) Packer
10 7 (0.25%) MIIS
11 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.18%) Argo
11 5 (0.18%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 4 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 289 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.67%) Databricks
3 92 (3.30%) Oracle
4 86 (3.09%) Informatica
5 75 (2.69%) Google
6 73 (2.62%) IBM
7 68 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 65 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 56 (2.01%) Cloudera
10 32 (1.15%) Xamarin
11 31 (1.11%) Sybase
12 27 (0.97%) Splunk
13 25 (0.90%) UiPath
14 24 (0.86%) Alteryx
14 24 (0.86%) SAP
14 24 (0.86%) YouTube
15 20 (0.72%) Cognos
16 19 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
16 19 (0.68%) VMware
17 18 (0.65%) ServiceNow