Test Automation Jobs in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 40 36
Rank change year-on-year -83 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 377 1,092 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.92% 6.88% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 7.11% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 237 284 733
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,975 £36,637
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +12.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £84,717 £74,718
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 of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,767 15,361 17,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.40% 96.77% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,705 7,790 10,781
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,250
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -67 234 £57,500 - 74
Yorkshire -66 116 £55,000 -6.38% 21
North East -53 27 £64,232 +11.71% 6
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 19 (5.04%) Confluence
2 8 (2.12%) IIS
3 4 (1.06%) CMS
3 4 (1.06%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.53%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.53%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 121 (32.10%) AWS
2 111 (29.44%) Azure
3 42 (11.14%) Amazon S3
3 42 (11.14%) SaaS
4 39 (10.34%) OCI
5 37 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (9.55%) Amazon ECR
6 36 (9.55%) IBM Cloud
6 36 (9.55%) Route 53
7 29 (7.69%) GCP
8 20 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.77%) Power Platform
10 17 (4.51%) GitHub
11 16 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (3.71%) Power Automate
13 13 (3.45%) BrowserStack
13 13 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.45%) Serverless
14 10 (2.65%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.45%) 3G
1 13 (3.45%) 4G
1 13 (3.45%) MQTT
1 13 (3.45%) RS-485
1 13 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (3.45%) Wireless
2 7 (1.86%) Firewall
3 5 (1.33%) Internet
4 4 (1.06%) DNS
5 2 (0.53%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) Broadband
6 1 (0.27%) Multicast
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (8.49%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (7.16%) MySQL
5 25 (6.63%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.12%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.53%) Power BI
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
12 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.27%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 57 (15.12%) Git
2 56 (14.85%) Selenium
3 33 (8.75%) Appium
4 31 (8.22%) JIRA
5 26 (6.90%) JMeter
6 25 (6.63%) Jenkins
6 25 (6.63%) Postman
7 23 (6.10%) Cucumber
7 23 (6.10%) Cypress.io
8 16 (4.24%) CircleCI
9 15 (3.98%) JUnit
10 12 (3.18%) SpecFlow
11 10 (2.65%) Jasmine
12 9 (2.39%) GitLab
12 9 (2.39%) LoadRunner
13 8 (2.12%) TeamCity
13 8 (2.12%) Visual Studio
13 8 (2.12%) WebDriver
14 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.86%) MSTest
General
1 95 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.49%) Public Sector
3 64 (16.98%) Finance
4 49 (13.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (6.90%) Retail
7 17 (4.51%) Marketing
8 14 (3.71%) Automotive
9 12 (3.18%) Law
9 12 (3.18%) Mandarin Language
9 12 (3.18%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.92%) Banking
11 8 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.12%) Electronics
12 6 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.33%) Legal
13 5 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.33%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.06%) Advertising
14 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (30.24%) Senior
2 74 (19.63%) Developer
3 61 (16.18%) Software Engineer
4 49 (13.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 48 (12.73%) Lead
6 45 (11.94%) Senior DevOps
6 45 (11.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 26 (6.90%) Tester
8 23 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (6.10%) Test Engineer
9 22 (5.84%) Java Engineer
9 22 (5.84%) Software Developer
10 20 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (5.31%) Senior Java Engineer
10 20 (5.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Embedded Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.77%) Analyst
13 15 (3.98%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.20%) RESTful
2 35 (9.28%) .NET
3 31 (8.22%) REST
4 24 (6.37%) HTML
5 22 (5.84%) CSS
5 22 (5.84%) Node.js
6 21 (5.57%) JSON
7 20 (5.31%) React
8 16 (4.24%) Playwright
9 15 (3.98%) Gherkin
10 14 (3.71%) Jest
11 10 (2.65%) Android SDK
11 10 (2.65%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.65%) Web Services
12 9 (2.39%) React Native
13 8 (2.12%) LLVM
13 8 (2.12%) OAuth
13 8 (2.12%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.59%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.59%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.55%) Blockchain
1 36 (9.55%) e-Learning
1 36 (9.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (6.10%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.84%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.71%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.12%) NHS
9 6 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.06%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.06%) SCADA
12 3 (0.80%) Blog
12 3 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.08%) Linux
2 24 (6.37%) Windows
3 15 (3.98%) Android
4 13 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (2.65%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.59%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (1.59%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.06%) VMS
8 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (67.37%) Agile
2 142 (37.67%) DevOps
3 117 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 115 (30.50%) Mentoring
5 104 (27.59%) Coaching
6 103 (27.32%) Software Engineering
7 98 (25.99%) Software Testing
8 71 (18.83%) Continuous Integration
9 65 (17.24%) TDD
10 61 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 52 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (13.26%) BDD
13 43 (11.41%) Scrum
13 43 (11.41%) SDLC
14 42 (11.14%) Roadmaps
15 41 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (10.61%) Continuous Deployment
17 39 (10.34%) Microservices
18 38 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (9.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 94 (24.93%) JavaScript
2 78 (20.69%) Java
3 72 (19.10%) C#
4 67 (17.77%) SQL
5 52 (13.79%) Python
6 41 (10.88%) C
7 30 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.31%) C++
9 16 (4.24%) Go
10 13 (3.45%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.12%) Ruby
12 5 (1.33%) Fortran
12 5 (1.33%) PHP
13 4 (1.06%) Groovy
13 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.06%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.80%) Swift
15 2 (0.53%) Perl
15 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (13.26%) Degree
2 22 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.77%) ISTQB
4 17 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.06%) CIPD
8 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.80%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.80%) ISEB
10 2 (0.53%) HND
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (22.28%) QA
2 21 (5.57%) GDPR
3 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.86%) PSD2
5 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (6.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.06%) VMware Server
3 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (15.38%) Terraform
2 56 (14.85%) Kubernetes
3 36 (9.55%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.71%) Ansible
5 9 (2.39%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.59%) Kibana
7 5 (1.33%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.27%) Kiali
Vendors
1 45 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.55%) Dynatrace
2 36 (9.55%) IBM
2 36 (9.55%) Red Hat
3 23 (6.10%) Google
4 11 (2.92%) BT
5 7 (1.86%) Duck Creek
6 5 (1.33%) Automation Anywhere
6 5 (1.33%) iManage
6 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.33%) YouTube
7 4 (1.06%) Facebook
7 4 (1.06%) VMware
8 3 (0.80%) Adobe
8 3 (0.80%) Black Duck
8 3 (0.80%) SAP
9 2 (0.53%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.53%) EMC
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle
9 2 (0.53%) Splunk