Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 26 60
Rank change year-on-year -78 +34 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 179 450 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.23% 7.73% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 7.99% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 152 156 211
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £50,000 £38,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £64,063 £65,000 £62,625
90th Percentile £76,125 £78,750 £84,250
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -29 73 £50,000 -16.67% 21
Warwickshire -30 26 £44,000 -18.89% 7
Staffordshire -24 18 £52,500 +2.44% 7
Coventry -18 10 £58,500 +6.36% 3
Shropshire -21 10 £52,500 -12.50%
Solihull -5 8 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Worcestershire -21 8 £50,000 +43.81% 4
Wolverhampton -3 4 £60,000 - 1
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (0.56%) Confluence
1 1 (0.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.05%) Azure
2 42 (23.46%) AWS
3 20 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (10.06%) GitHub
5 14 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.15%) PaaS
6 11 (6.15%) SaaS
7 10 (5.59%) IaaS
8 6 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.79%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.79%) Serverless
10 4 (2.23%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.23%) GCP
10 4 (2.23%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.79%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.23%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.23%) Wireless
4 3 (1.68%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.68%) MQTT
5 2 (1.12%) 5G
5 2 (1.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.56%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.56%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.15%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.59%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.91%) InterSystems Cache
4 7 (3.91%) MySQL
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.79%) Power BI
7 4 (2.23%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (15.64%) Git
2 11 (6.15%) Postman
2 11 (6.15%) Selenium
3 10 (5.59%) MSTest
3 10 (5.59%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.47%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.47%) JIRA
4 8 (4.47%) LabVIEW
5 7 (3.91%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.79%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.68%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.12%) Maven
9 2 (1.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.56%) Moq
10 1 (0.56%) TestNG
General
1 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.50%) Automotive
5 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.15%) Banking
8 9 (5.03%) Electronics
9 6 (3.35%) Retail
10 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.23%) Police
12 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Games
13 2 (1.12%) Law
14 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (24.58%) Developer
2 28 (15.64%) Senior
3 25 (13.97%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.73%) Test Engineer
5 12 (6.70%) Lead
5 12 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (6.15%) IT Manager
7 10 (5.59%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Tester
8 8 (4.47%) QA Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Software Developer
9 7 (3.91%) Audit Manager
9 7 (3.91%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (3.91%) IT Audit Manager
9 7 (3.91%) Java Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.35%) Embedded Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Head of Development
10 6 (3.35%) Head of Software Development
10 6 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.88%) .NET
2 17 (9.50%) React
3 16 (8.94%) HTML
4 14 (7.82%) XML
5 13 (7.26%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.70%) ASP.NET
7 10 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.59%) ARM Templates
7 10 (5.59%) Azure Blueprints
7 10 (5.59%) JSON
7 10 (5.59%) REST
8 9 (5.03%) RESTful
8 9 (5.03%) Web Services
9 8 (4.47%) Blazor
9 8 (4.47%) CSS
9 8 (4.47%) Spring
9 8 (4.47%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.79%) Node.js
10 5 (2.79%) SOAP
10 5 (2.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.20%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.97%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.73%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (11.17%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.70%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (6.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.35%) IoT
8 2 (1.12%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.56%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.56%) FMCG
9 1 (0.56%) Genomics
9 1 (0.56%) NHS
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Windows
2 5 (2.79%) Linux
3 4 (2.23%) Unix
4 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (51.96%) Agile
2 66 (36.87%) DevOps
3 57 (31.84%) Software Testing
4 56 (31.28%) Mentoring
5 42 (23.46%) Functional Testing
6 38 (21.23%) Software Engineering
7 32 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.88%) Test Strategy
8 31 (17.32%) CI/CD
8 31 (17.32%) SDLC
9 29 (16.20%) Scrum
10 28 (15.64%) Non-Functional Testing
10 28 (15.64%) Test Scripting
11 26 (14.53%) Security Testing
12 20 (11.17%) Computer Science
12 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.61%) Containerisation
13 19 (10.61%) Performance Testing
13 19 (10.61%) Project Management
13 19 (10.61%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.37%) C#
2 44 (24.58%) SQL
3 29 (16.20%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.08%) Python
5 23 (12.85%) Java
6 17 (9.50%) C
7 11 (6.15%) C++
8 8 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.79%) Embedded C
9 5 (2.79%) Embedded C++
9 5 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.23%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.23%) VB
11 3 (1.68%) Dart
11 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (18.44%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) HNC
8 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.49%) QA
2 11 (6.15%) NCSC
3 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) JTAG
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.26%) Terraform
3 10 (5.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) InterSystems
2 7 (3.91%) Xamarin
3 6 (3.35%) Databricks
3 6 (3.35%) Google
3 6 (3.35%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (3.35%) YouTube
4 5 (2.79%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.79%) SAP
5 4 (2.23%) SYSPRO
6 3 (1.68%) IBM
6 3 (1.68%) Lauterbach
6 3 (1.68%) Oracle
6 3 (1.68%) Telerik
7 1 (0.56%) Denodo
7 1 (0.56%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Talend