Test Automation Jobs in Manchester

Automated Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 93 58
Rank change year-on-year +23 -35 -16
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 118 76 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.23% 2.88% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.03% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 30 60 207
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,125 £70,250
90th Percentile £83,775 £82,548 £81,750
North West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,134 2,512 5,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.79% 95.12% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 1,835 3,473
10th Percentile £31,675 £34,400 £32,331
25th Percentile £41,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,556 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +8.28% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,225 £84,474 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Stockport - 10 £57,500 - 1
Bolton - 7 - -
Rochdale - 7 - -
Salford - 5 - - 1
Altrincham -13 1 - - 1
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.85%) CMS
1 1 (0.85%) Drupal
1 1 (0.85%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Magento
1 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.39%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) OCI
3 35 (29.66%) Amazon S3
4 34 (28.81%) Amazon ECR
4 34 (28.81%) Amazon EKS
4 34 (28.81%) Route 53
5 33 (27.97%) IBM Cloud
6 28 (23.73%) Azure
7 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.08%) SaaS
9 5 (4.24%) GCP
9 5 (4.24%) Serverless
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.39%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.85%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Firewall
1 1 (0.85%) HTTP
1 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.81%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.24%) MySQL
4 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Selenium
2 5 (4.24%) JIRA
3 4 (3.39%) Appium
3 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.39%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) Jasmine
4 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.54%) Postman
4 3 (2.54%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.69%) Maven
5 2 (1.69%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.85%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 43 (36.44%) Public Sector
2 33 (27.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Finance
5 6 (5.08%) Retail
6 5 (4.24%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.54%) Automotive
8 2 (1.69%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Law
8 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (37.29%) Senior
2 35 (29.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (23.73%) Senior DevOps
3 28 (23.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 22 (18.64%) Developer
5 9 (7.63%) Lead
6 8 (6.78%) Tester
7 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Consultant
8 5 (4.24%) QA Leader
8 5 (4.24%) Test Manager
9 4 (3.39%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.39%) React Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Technology Consultant
9 4 (3.39%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Trainee
9 4 (3.39%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) .NET
2 10 (8.47%) AngularJS
2 10 (8.47%) CSS
2 10 (8.47%) HTML
2 10 (8.47%) RESTful
3 9 (7.63%) Web Services
4 8 (6.78%) Node.js
5 7 (5.93%) JSON
6 6 (5.08%) Jest
6 6 (5.08%) React
6 6 (5.08%) React Native
6 6 (5.08%) Spring
7 4 (3.39%) Ajax
7 4 (3.39%) Django
7 4 (3.39%) JWT
7 4 (3.39%) LDAP
7 4 (3.39%) OAuth
7 4 (3.39%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.39%) Playwright
7 4 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.66%) e-Learning
2 33 (27.97%) Blockchain
2 33 (27.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.93%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.39%) CMDB
5 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.54%) Life Science
7 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.69%) CUDA
7 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.69%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.24%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.39%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (73.73%) Agile
2 66 (55.93%) DevOps
3 54 (45.76%) Mentoring
4 53 (44.92%) Coaching
5 37 (31.36%) Artificial Intelligence
6 35 (29.66%) Containerisation
6 35 (29.66%) Observability
7 34 (28.81%) Secrets Management
8 30 (25.42%) TDD
9 26 (22.03%) CI/CD
10 18 (15.25%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.41%) Software Testing
12 16 (13.56%) Microservices
12 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.56%) Scrum
13 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.17%) Manual Testing
14 11 (9.32%) Test Strategy
15 10 (8.47%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.10%) JavaScript
2 18 (15.25%) SQL
3 17 (14.41%) Java
4 11 (9.32%) Python
4 11 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.47%) C#
6 4 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) C++
7 2 (1.69%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Degree
4 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.34%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) GDPR
4 3 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.54%) WAI
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (43.22%) Kubernetes
2 43 (36.44%) Terraform
3 34 (28.81%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.93%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.69%) Packer
5 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) Ansible
6 1 (0.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 34 (28.81%) Dynatrace
1 34 (28.81%) Red Hat
2 33 (27.97%) IBM
3 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.69%) BT
4 2 (1.69%) Cadence
4 2 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe
5 1 (0.85%) Black Duck
5 1 (0.85%) Google
5 1 (0.85%) HP
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) Splunk