Test Automation Jobs in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East 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 133 29 40
Rank change year-on-year -104 +11 +23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 60 221 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.21% 8.19% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 8.54% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 44 71 153
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £27,625
25th Percentile £35,125 £40,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £56,128
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £68,500
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
East 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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,853 2,589 3,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.93% 95.96% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,652 1,204 2,028
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,941 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +10.53% +6.74%
75th Percentile £56,213 £65,438 £60,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the East 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 East 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
Leicestershire -63 20 £36,500 -36.52% 4
Nottinghamshire -54 16 £57,500 - 2
Lincolnshire 0 13 £47,500 +35.71%
Derbyshire -42 8 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Northamptonshire -39 3 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) OCI
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 8 (13.33%) IBM Cloud
4 8 (13.33%) Route 53
5 3 (5.00%) BrowserStack
5 3 (5.00%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CodeStar
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) HTTP
1 2 (3.33%) Internet
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
1 9 (15.00%) JMeter
1 9 (15.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (13.33%) Selenium
2 8 (13.33%) SoapUI
3 6 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (10.00%) Git
3 6 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 6 (10.00%) TestRail
4 5 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (8.33%) Postman
5 3 (5.00%) Appium
5 3 (5.00%) Gatling
5 3 (5.00%) JBehave
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (3.33%) Android Studio
6 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (15.00%) Law
1 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Games
6 1 (1.67%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Developer
2 11 (18.33%) Lead
3 10 (16.67%) Test Leader
4 8 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) QA Leader
5 7 (11.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Test Manager
7 5 (8.33%) QA Manager
7 5 (8.33%) QA Test Manager
7 5 (8.33%) Senior
8 4 (6.67%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Backend Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Control Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Software Tester
8 4 (6.67%) Symfony Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 8 (13.33%) SOAP
3 7 (11.67%) .NET
3 7 (11.67%) HTML
4 6 (10.00%) CSS
4 6 (10.00%) React
5 4 (6.67%) Playwright
5 4 (6.67%) Symfony
5 4 (6.67%) Vue
6 3 (5.00%) Node.js
6 3 (5.00%) Swagger
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.33%) WinForms
7 2 (3.33%) XHTML
8 1 (1.67%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (1.67%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.67%) HTML5
8 1 (1.67%) Jest
8 1 (1.67%) JSON
8 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 8 (13.33%) Blockchain
2 8 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.67%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.67%) FMCG
5 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
5 3 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.67%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (63.33%) Agile
2 23 (38.33%) DevOps
3 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 11 (18.33%) Software Testing
6 10 (16.67%) SDLC
7 9 (15.00%) Coaching
8 8 (13.33%) API Testing
8 8 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.33%) Observability
8 8 (13.33%) Secrets Management
8 8 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
9 7 (11.67%) OO
9 7 (11.67%) Performance Testing
10 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
10 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) C#
2 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.67%) Java
4 9 (15.00%) Python
5 6 (10.00%) C
6 5 (8.33%) SQL
7 4 (6.67%) C++
7 4 (6.67%) PHP
8 3 (5.00%) Groovy
8 3 (5.00%) Ruby
8 3 (5.00%) Rust
9 2 (3.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.67%) RPG
10 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) ISEB
1 7 (11.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (35.00%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) MISRA
2 3 (5.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (5.00%) Firmware
2 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 10 (16.67%) Terraform
2 8 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) IBM
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 8 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.67%) Siemens
4 1 (1.67%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow