Test Automation Jobs in London

Automated Testing
England > London

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 39 33
Rank change year-on-year -70 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 667 2,036 7,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.72% 6.48% 9.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 6.81% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 468 1,132 2,395
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £111,250 £100,000
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
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,954 29,884 72,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.57% 95.13% 97.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 21,954 34,489
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in London

Test Automation
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -11 113 £77,500 -8.82% 18
South London -32 40 £57,500 -2.13% 2
West London -63 9 £62,500 +20.77% 5
East London +16 3 £80,000 +56.10% 6
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (4.65%) Confluence
2 18 (2.70%) IIS
3 14 (2.10%) Apache
4 6 (0.90%) nginx
4 6 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) Moodle
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.15%) Findur
4 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.15%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 250 (37.48%) AWS
2 200 (29.99%) Azure
3 91 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (12.14%) GCP
5 49 (7.35%) Serverless
6 47 (7.05%) Amazon S3
7 44 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (6.30%) GitHub
9 36 (5.40%) SaaS
10 34 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (4.20%) Power Platform
12 21 (3.15%) PaaS
13 19 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (2.40%) OpenShift
17 14 (2.10%) Azure AKS
18 13 (1.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.55%) DNS
2 13 (1.95%) Internet
3 10 (1.50%) Firewall
3 10 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.20%) SNMP
4 8 (1.20%) tcpdump
5 6 (0.90%) HTTP
6 4 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.30%) SMTP
7 2 (0.30%) SSH
7 2 (0.30%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) Network Security
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (12.59%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.75%) NoSQL
3 42 (6.30%) MongoDB
4 40 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 37 (5.55%) MySQL
6 27 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.10%) Big Data
12 11 (1.65%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.50%) DB2
14 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.20%) Power BI
15 6 (0.90%) Metadata
16 5 (0.75%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.75%) SAP HANA
17 4 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 111 (16.64%) Git
2 81 (12.14%) Selenium
3 69 (10.34%) JIRA
4 64 (9.60%) Jenkins
5 44 (6.60%) JUnit
6 39 (5.85%) Cucumber
7 36 (5.40%) GitLab
8 27 (4.05%) Cypress.io
8 27 (4.05%) JMeter
8 27 (4.05%) WebDriver
9 24 (3.60%) TeamCity
10 21 (3.15%) REST Assured
11 20 (3.00%) Postman
11 20 (3.00%) TestNG
11 20 (3.00%) Visual Studio
12 19 (2.85%) SpecFlow
13 13 (1.95%) SonarQube
14 10 (1.50%) SoapUI
15 9 (1.35%) Appium
15 9 (1.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 177 (26.54%) Finance
3 97 (14.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 66 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 61 (9.15%) Law
7 46 (6.90%) Banking
8 38 (5.70%) Marketing
9 29 (4.35%) Front Office
10 28 (4.20%) Retail
11 19 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.95%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.95%) Legal
13 12 (1.80%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.50%) Back Office
15 8 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.05%) Police
17 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
18 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
19 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (23.39%) Senior
2 153 (22.94%) Developer
3 111 (16.64%) Software Engineer
4 108 (16.19%) Lead
5 50 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (6.00%) Senior Developer
8 38 (5.70%) Tester
9 37 (5.55%) Analyst
10 34 (5.10%) Java Engineer
11 31 (4.65%) .NET Developer
12 27 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
13 25 (3.75%) QA Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.15%) Test Analyst
16 20 (3.00%) Architect
16 20 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (21.89%) .NET
2 110 (16.49%) REST
3 88 (13.19%) React
4 65 (9.75%) Web Services
5 54 (8.10%) AngularJS
6 47 (7.05%) Spring
7 46 (6.90%) JSON
8 41 (6.15%) HTML
9 40 (6.00%) CSS
10 39 (5.85%) .NET Framework
10 39 (5.85%) Node.js
11 38 (5.70%) ASP.NET
12 37 (5.55%) RESTful
13 32 (4.80%) XML
14 28 (4.20%) .NET Core
15 27 (4.05%) Playwright
15 27 (4.05%) Spring Boot
16 23 (3.45%) GraphQL
17 18 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (2.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 29 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.90%) Blog
2 26 (3.90%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.40%) Hedge funds
6 16 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (1.95%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.65%) Blockchain
9 11 (1.65%) Derivative
9 11 (1.65%) e-Learning
10 10 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.35%) Clustering
11 9 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.35%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.95%) Linux
2 26 (3.90%) Windows
3 21 (3.15%) Android
4 19 (2.85%) Apple iOS
5 16 (2.40%) Unix
6 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (50.67%) Agile
2 234 (35.08%) DevOps
3 211 (31.63%) CI/CD
4 183 (27.44%) Software Engineering
5 134 (20.09%) Microservices
6 126 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (18.14%) Scrum
8 117 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 117 (17.54%) Software Testing
9 110 (16.49%) Continuous Integration
10 100 (14.99%) TDD
11 83 (12.44%) Test Strategy
12 81 (12.14%) Unit Testing
13 79 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (11.54%) Coaching
15 76 (11.39%) Containerisation
16 69 (10.34%) Computer Science
17 65 (9.75%) Full Stack Development
18 64 (9.60%) SDET
19 63 (9.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 216 (32.38%) Java
2 175 (26.24%) Python
3 156 (23.39%) C#
4 155 (23.24%) SQL
5 134 (20.09%) JavaScript
6 89 (13.34%) TypeScript
7 43 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 30 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 25 (3.75%) Scala
10 21 (3.15%) Bash
11 20 (3.00%) C++
11 20 (3.00%) Perl
12 18 (2.70%) Go
13 11 (1.65%) Rust
13 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.50%) Bicep
14 10 (1.50%) PHP
14 10 (1.50%) Swift
14 10 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.20%) C
Qualifications
1 86 (12.89%) Degree
2 52 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 32 (4.80%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.15%) ISTQB
6 17 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.10%) ISEB
8 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.60%) ISEB Practitioner
14 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.45%) Sun Certification
15 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.30%) MCAD
16 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (20.69%) QA
2 16 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.35%) ISO 9001
5 7 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.05%) SLA
6 5 (0.75%) GDPR
7 4 (0.60%) NCSC
7 4 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.45%) ITGC
8 3 (0.45%) JTAG
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 1
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (15.29%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.75%) Firmware
4 5 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.30%) Varnish
6 2 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (16.64%) Kubernetes
2 109 (16.34%) Terraform
3 43 (6.45%) Ansible
4 23 (3.45%) Puppet
5 20 (3.00%) Grafana
6 13 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.80%) Nagios
7 12 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.35%) Packer
9 8 (1.20%) Graphite
9 8 (1.20%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.90%) Istio
11 5 (0.75%) Kibana
12 4 (0.60%) Salt
13 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.45%) Control-M
13 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.45%) logstash
13 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.35%) Google
3 21 (3.15%) Oracle
4 15 (2.25%) Dynatrace
5 13 (1.95%) Databricks
5 13 (1.95%) IBM
5 13 (1.95%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.80%) YouTube
7 11 (1.65%) Sybase
7 11 (1.65%) UiPath
8 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.20%) Splunk
8 8 (1.20%) Xero
9 7 (1.05%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.05%) SAP
10 6 (0.90%) Amplitude
10 6 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (0.90%) Blue Prism
10 6 (0.90%) New Relic
11 5 (0.75%) VMware