Test Automation Jobs in the North West

Automated Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 114 39 38
Rank change year-on-year -75 -1 +19
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 222 525 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.08% 7.10% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 7.45% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 131 133 351
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year - +8.26% +18.03%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,543 £77,500
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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,616 7,048 9,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.75% 95.36% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 3,818 5,301
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the North West 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
Manchester -49 160 £55,000 -4.35% 52
Cheshire -16 35 £57,500 -13.21% 16
Merseyside -35 14 £39,000 -41.13% 5
Lancashire -40 12 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Cumbria - 1 £27,000 - 1
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (4.50%) Confluence
2 8 (3.60%) IIS
3 4 (1.80%) CMS
3 4 (1.80%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.90%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (32.88%) AWS
2 40 (18.02%) Amazon S3
3 38 (17.12%) OCI
4 37 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 37 (16.67%) Azure
5 36 (16.22%) Amazon ECR
5 36 (16.22%) IBM Cloud
5 36 (16.22%) Route 53
6 23 (10.36%) SaaS
7 10 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.50%) Google Play
8 9 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (4.05%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.60%) GitHub
10 7 (3.15%) Serverless
11 6 (2.70%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.80%) DNS
1 4 (1.80%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.95%) MySQL
4 10 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.90%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 34 (15.32%) Git
2 20 (9.01%) Appium
3 19 (8.56%) Selenium
4 17 (7.66%) Jenkins
5 15 (6.76%) Cypress.io
5 15 (6.76%) JIRA
6 11 (4.95%) Postman
7 10 (4.50%) JMeter
8 9 (4.05%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.60%) Jasmine
10 7 (3.15%) TeamCity
10 7 (3.15%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.25%) Clang
11 5 (2.25%) JUnit
11 5 (2.25%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.80%) TestNG
12 4 (1.80%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.90%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (25.23%) Public Sector
2 47 (21.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (19.82%) Social Skills
4 40 (18.02%) Finance
5 19 (8.56%) Retail
6 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.41%) Marketing
8 8 (3.60%) Automotive
9 6 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.35%) Advertising
10 3 (1.35%) Aviation
10 3 (1.35%) Banking
10 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.90%) Electronics
11 2 (0.90%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (31.98%) Senior
2 59 (26.58%) Developer
3 39 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (16.22%) Senior DevOps
4 36 (16.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.36%) Lead
6 21 (9.46%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.01%) Software Developer
7 20 (9.01%) Tester
8 15 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.86%) Analyst
10 10 (4.50%) Android Developer
10 10 (4.50%) Senior Android Developer
11 9 (4.05%) Applications Developer
11 9 (4.05%) Automation Tester
11 9 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.05%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.60%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) .NET
2 19 (8.56%) CSS
3 18 (8.11%) RESTful
4 17 (7.66%) HTML
4 17 (7.66%) JSON
4 17 (7.66%) React
5 16 (7.21%) Node.js
5 16 (7.21%) REST
6 10 (4.50%) Android SDK
6 10 (4.50%) Jest
7 9 (4.05%) Playwright
8 8 (3.60%) Gherkin
8 8 (3.60%) LLVM
9 7 (3.15%) React Native
10 6 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.70%) CSS3
11 5 (2.25%) HTML5
11 5 (2.25%) SOAP
12 4 (1.80%) OAuth
12 4 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.22%) Blockchain
1 36 (16.22%) e-Learning
1 36 (16.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (5.86%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.80%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.80%) SCADA
8 3 (1.35%) Blog
8 3 (1.35%) IoT
9 2 (0.90%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.90%) Animation
9 2 (0.90%) FMCG
10 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.36%) Linux
2 19 (8.56%) Windows
3 14 (6.31%) Android
4 7 (3.15%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.80%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.80%) VMS
5 4 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (71.62%) Agile
2 87 (39.19%) DevOps
3 72 (32.43%) Mentoring
4 68 (30.63%) Coaching
5 65 (29.28%) CI/CD
6 49 (22.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 47 (21.17%) Software Engineering
8 44 (19.82%) Continuous Integration
9 43 (19.37%) Containerisation
10 39 (17.57%) TDD
11 37 (16.67%) Observability
11 37 (16.67%) Software Testing
12 36 (16.22%) Secrets Management
13 26 (11.71%) SDLC
14 25 (11.26%) Fintech
14 25 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.26%) Scrum
15 24 (10.81%) Design Patterns
16 23 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (9.91%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.13%) JavaScript
2 50 (22.52%) Java
3 44 (19.82%) C#
4 34 (15.32%) Python
5 24 (10.81%) SQL
6 22 (9.91%) C
7 21 (9.46%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.31%) Go
9 13 (5.86%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.15%) C++
10 7 (3.15%) Ruby
11 5 (2.25%) Fortran
12 4 (1.80%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.35%) PHP
14 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.90%) Swift
15 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (13.96%) Degree
2 14 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.15%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.35%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.90%) HND
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.72%) QA
2 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.90%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (21.17%) Terraform
2 43 (19.37%) Kubernetes
3 36 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 13 (5.86%) Ansible
5 9 (4.05%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.70%) Kibana
7 5 (2.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.45%) Kiali
Vendors
1 36 (16.22%) Dynatrace
1 36 (16.22%) IBM
1 36 (16.22%) Red Hat
2 16 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.95%) Google
4 5 (2.25%) BT
4 5 (2.25%) YouTube
5 4 (1.80%) Facebook
6 3 (1.35%) Adobe
6 3 (1.35%) SAP
7 2 (0.90%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.90%) Black Duck
7 2 (0.90%) EMC
7 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle
8 1 (0.45%) Splunk
8 1 (0.45%) Workday