Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 131 27 56
Rank change year-on-year -104 +29 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 240 673 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.84% 7.87% 5.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 8.15% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 197 229 365
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,100 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
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
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,426 8,254 10,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.81% 96.48% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,458 4,379 6,963
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,276 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,374 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the 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 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
West Midlands -78 179 £52,500 -12.50% 46
East Midlands -104 60 £47,500 -13.64% 16
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (0.42%) Confluence
1 1 (0.42%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (30.83%) Azure
2 58 (24.17%) AWS
3 21 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.50%) GitHub
5 14 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (5.42%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.58%) PaaS
7 11 (4.58%) SaaS
8 10 (4.17%) IaaS
9 9 (3.75%) OCI
10 8 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
10 8 (3.33%) Route 53
11 7 (2.92%) BrowserStack
12 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.08%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.67%) HTTP
3 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.67%) Wireless
4 3 (1.25%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.25%) MQTT
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) Internet
5 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.42%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.42%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.58%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.58%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.92%) InterSystems Cache
5 7 (2.92%) MySQL
6 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.08%) Power BI
8 4 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (14.17%) Git
2 19 (7.92%) Selenium
3 17 (7.08%) JIRA
4 16 (6.67%) Postman
5 14 (5.83%) Cucumber
6 13 (5.42%) SoapUI
7 12 (5.00%) JMeter
7 12 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (4.58%) SonarQube
9 10 (4.17%) MSTest
10 9 (3.75%) Visual Studio
11 8 (3.33%) LabVIEW
12 6 (2.50%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.50%) SpecFlow
12 6 (2.50%) TestRail
13 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
14 4 (1.67%) Appium
14 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
14 4 (1.67%) JUnit
15 3 (1.25%) JBehave
General
1 60 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.50%) Finance
3 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.08%) Automotive
7 12 (5.00%) Banking
7 12 (5.00%) Law
8 10 (4.17%) Retail
9 9 (3.75%) Electronics
10 8 (3.33%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.67%) Police
14 3 (1.25%) Games
14 3 (1.25%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.42%) iGaming
16 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.25%) Developer
2 33 (13.75%) Senior
3 28 (11.67%) Software Engineer
4 24 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 23 (9.58%) Lead
6 14 (5.83%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (5.83%) Tester
7 13 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.42%) QA Leader
8 12 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.58%) IT Manager
9 11 (4.58%) Test Leader
10 10 (4.17%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.75%) Applications Developer
11 9 (3.75%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) QA Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.75%) Test Manager
12 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.25%) .NET
2 24 (10.00%) HTML
2 24 (10.00%) React
3 20 (8.33%) REST
4 15 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 15 (6.25%) CSS
5 14 (5.83%) XML
6 13 (5.42%) SOAP
7 12 (5.00%) ASP.NET
8 11 (4.58%) ARM Templates
8 11 (4.58%) JSON
9 10 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
10 9 (3.75%) Playwright
10 9 (3.75%) RESTful
10 9 (3.75%) Web Services
11 8 (3.33%) Blazor
11 8 (3.33%) Node.js
11 8 (3.33%) Spring
11 8 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 28 (11.67%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (10.42%) Mobile App
4 20 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (4.58%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.17%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.33%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.50%) IoT
10 5 (2.08%) FMCG
11 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.83%) Infotainment
12 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.83%) Mobile Computing
13 1 (0.42%) Acoustics
13 1 (0.42%) NHS
13 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
13 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Linux
2 6 (2.50%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 3 (1.25%) Android
4 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (55.00%) Agile
2 89 (37.08%) DevOps
3 72 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 68 (28.33%) Software Testing
5 48 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (18.33%) Software Engineering
7 42 (17.50%) Functional Testing
8 41 (17.08%) SDLC
9 36 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 36 (15.00%) Test Strategy
10 30 (12.50%) Scrum
10 30 (12.50%) Test Scripting
11 28 (11.67%) Non-Functional Testing
12 27 (11.25%) Coaching
12 27 (11.25%) Containerisation
13 26 (10.83%) Performance Testing
13 26 (10.83%) Security Testing
14 23 (9.58%) Computer Science
14 23 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.58%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.17%) C#
2 49 (20.42%) SQL
3 41 (17.08%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.00%) Python
5 33 (13.75%) Java
6 23 (9.58%) C
7 15 (6.25%) C++
8 9 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.92%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) Embedded C
10 5 (2.08%) Embedded C++
10 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.67%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.67%) VB
12 3 (1.25%) Dart
12 3 (1.25%) Groovy
12 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.25%) Ruby
12 3 (1.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (15.00%) Degree
2 24 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.92%) ISEB
5 7 (2.92%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.08%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) HNC
10 1 (0.42%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (30.00%) QA
2 11 (4.58%) NCSC
3 6 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) JTAG
4 3 (1.25%) MISRA
4 3 (1.25%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (10.00%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.58%) Terraform
3 11 (4.58%) Ansible
4 8 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.00%) IBM
3 8 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.92%) InterSystems
4 7 (2.92%) Xamarin
5 6 (2.50%) Databricks
5 6 (2.50%) Google
5 6 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.50%) YouTube
6 5 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.08%) SAP
7 4 (1.67%) Siemens
7 4 (1.67%) SYSPRO
8 3 (1.25%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle
8 3 (1.25%) Telerik
9 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) Splunk
10 1 (0.42%) Talend