Test Automation Jobs in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 41 33
Rank change year-on-year -69 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 116 498 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.81% 6.77% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 6.91% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 84 119 345
10th Percentile £34,075 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +19.59% +5.63%
75th Percentile £73,075 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £85,200 £71,250
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,154 7,206 6,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 80.22% 97.89% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 3,357 4,417
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,576
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £50,979
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +7.66% +7.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 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 Yorkshire -27 78 £53,500 -10.83% 15
South Yorkshire -69 16 £60,000 +11.63% 5
North Yorkshire -8 5 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (7.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 53 (45.69%) Azure
2 36 (31.03%) AWS
3 25 (21.55%) GCP
4 11 (9.48%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.03%) BrowserStack
7 7 (6.03%) Slack
8 6 (5.17%) BlazeMeter
8 6 (5.17%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Serverless
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.86%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.21%) 3G
1 13 (11.21%) 4G
1 13 (11.21%) MQTT
1 13 (11.21%) RS-485
1 13 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (11.21%) Wireless
2 4 (3.45%) Internet
3 3 (2.59%) Firewall
4 2 (1.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) Broadband
5 1 (0.86%) Multicast
5 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.03%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.03%) MySQL
4 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (25.86%) Selenium
2 22 (18.97%) Git
3 16 (13.79%) CircleCI
4 14 (12.07%) JMeter
5 13 (11.21%) JIRA
6 12 (10.34%) Postman
7 11 (9.48%) Appium
7 11 (9.48%) Cucumber
8 9 (7.76%) LoadRunner
9 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
9 8 (6.90%) JUnit
10 7 (6.03%) GitLab
10 7 (6.03%) MSTest
11 6 (5.17%) HP UFT
11 6 (5.17%) SpecFlow
12 5 (4.31%) Cypress.io
12 5 (4.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (3.45%) Protractor
13 4 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
2 18 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.34%) Mandarin Language
4 8 (6.90%) Banking
5 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Aerospace
6 6 (5.17%) Automotive
6 6 (5.17%) Electronics
6 6 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.31%) Marketing
7 5 (4.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.59%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.86%) Games
10 1 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (27.59%) Software Engineer
2 23 (19.83%) Senior
3 21 (18.10%) Lead
4 19 (16.38%) Embedded Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 13 (11.21%) Test Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) QA Leader
9 7 (6.03%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Software Engineering Manager
10 6 (5.17%) Software Manager
11 5 (4.31%) Pensions Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) RESTful
2 15 (12.93%) REST
3 11 (9.48%) .NET
4 6 (5.17%) Gherkin
4 6 (5.17%) Node.js
4 6 (5.17%) Playwright
4 6 (5.17%) Web Services
5 5 (4.31%) HTML
6 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.45%) XML
6 4 (3.45%) XSLT
7 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.59%) CSS
8 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.72%) Jest
8 2 (1.72%) OAuth
8 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.72%) React
8 2 (1.72%) Sass
9 1 (0.86%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.76%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.90%) NHS
5 7 (6.03%) Mobile App
6 6 (5.17%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (3.45%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.21%) Embedded Linux
1 13 (11.21%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (2.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (63.79%) Agile
2 54 (46.55%) Software Testing
3 45 (38.79%) DevOps
4 42 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 38 (32.76%) CI/CD
6 31 (26.72%) Mentoring
7 27 (23.28%) Coaching
8 26 (22.41%) BDD
9 20 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (15.52%) Containerisation
11 16 (13.79%) Roadmaps
12 15 (12.93%) Continuous Deployment
12 15 (12.93%) Microservices
12 15 (12.93%) Performance Testing
12 15 (12.93%) Regression Testing
12 15 (12.93%) Scrum
12 15 (12.93%) TDD
12 15 (12.93%) Test Scripting
12 15 (12.93%) User Experience
13 13 (11.21%) OO
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.59%) JavaScript
2 27 (23.28%) SQL
3 22 (18.97%) C#
4 19 (16.38%) C
5 16 (13.79%) Java
6 13 (11.21%) C++
6 13 (11.21%) Python
7 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.45%) Groovy
9 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.86%) PHP
10 1 (0.86%) Ruby
10 1 (0.86%) Swift
10 1 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (12.07%) Degree
2 9 (7.76%) ISTQB
3 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.45%) CIPD
5 4 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) ISEB
7 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (27.59%) QA
2 20 (17.24%) GDPR
3 7 (6.03%) PSD2
4 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (11.21%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.45%) VMware Server
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.48%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Duck Creek
4 4 (3.45%) BT
4 4 (3.45%) VMware
5 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.72%) Brio
7 1 (0.86%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.86%) Cadence
7 1 (0.86%) Infor
7 1 (0.86%) Splunk