Test Automation Jobs in Birmingham

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 45 85
Rank change year-on-year -35 +40 -26
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 71 95 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.26% 5.29% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 5.47% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 67 58 95
10th Percentile £35,500 £46,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,094 £92,500 £77,102
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -0.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,460 1,737 3,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 78.37% 96.66% 97.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,940 1,297 2,249
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,089 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Azure
2 16 (22.54%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) GitHub
4 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.23%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.41%) 5G
1 1 (1.41%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
1 1 (1.41%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.86%) InterSystems Cache
3 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.45%) MySQL
3 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.41%) Power BI
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) JIRA
2 6 (8.45%) Selenium
3 5 (7.04%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.04%) Postman
4 3 (4.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) JMeter
5 2 (2.82%) NUnit
6 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.41%) Moq
6 1 (1.41%) Sourcetree
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.13%) Finance
4 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
5 11 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (11.27%) Banking
7 5 (7.04%) Retail
8 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (5.63%) Police
9 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.41%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.41%) Electronics
10 1 (1.41%) Games
10 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Senior
4 8 (11.27%) Tester
5 7 (9.86%) Java Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Java Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Junior
7 5 (7.04%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.63%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Development Manager
8 4 (5.63%) IT Development Manager
8 4 (5.63%) IT Manager
8 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Web Applications Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) .NET
2 10 (14.08%) React
3 9 (12.68%) HTML
4 7 (9.86%) Web Services
5 6 (8.45%) .NET Core
5 6 (8.45%) RESTful
6 5 (7.04%) CSS
6 5 (7.04%) Spring
6 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
7 4 (5.63%) YAML
8 3 (4.23%) jQuery
8 3 (4.23%) Playwright
9 2 (2.82%) Flutter
10 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.41%) FHIR
10 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.49%) Mobile App
3 9 (12.68%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.41%) FMCG
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) NHS
4 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Unix
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
1 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) Agile
2 34 (47.89%) Mentoring
3 29 (40.85%) Software Testing
4 25 (35.21%) DevOps
5 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.94%) Functional Testing
6 17 (23.94%) SDLC
6 17 (23.94%) Test Strategy
7 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
7 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
8 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (18.31%) Coaching
10 12 (16.90%) User Experience
11 11 (15.49%) BDD
11 11 (15.49%) Performance Testing
11 11 (15.49%) Scrum
11 11 (15.49%) TDD
11 11 (15.49%) Test Scripting
12 10 (14.08%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) SQL
2 18 (25.35%) Java
3 17 (23.94%) C#
4 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) Python
6 4 (5.63%) C++
6 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) VB
7 2 (2.82%) Dart
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.80%) QA
2 6 (8.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) InterSystems
2 6 (8.45%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) YouTube
4 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.23%) Google
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) SAP