Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 28 50
Rank change year-on-year -93 +22 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 242 695 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.00% 7.67% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 7.94% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 203 233 361
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +0.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,850 8,748 10,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.45% 96.48% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7,187 4,437 6,921
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,437 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 Midlands -66 181 £52,500 -4.55% 56
East Midlands -104 60 £47,500 -13.64% 28
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (0.41%) Confluence
1 1 (0.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.75%) Azure
2 59 (24.38%) AWS
3 20 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (7.85%) GitHub
5 13 (5.37%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (4.96%) SaaS
7 10 (4.13%) PaaS
8 9 (3.72%) IaaS
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.31%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.31%) OCI
9 8 (3.31%) Route 53
10 6 (2.48%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.07%) Serverless
11 5 (2.07%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.89%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.07%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.65%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.65%) HTTP
3 4 (1.65%) MQTT
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.65%) Wireless
4 3 (1.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) Internet
5 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.41%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.96%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.13%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.89%) InterSystems Cache
6 7 (2.89%) MySQL
7 6 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.07%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (2.07%) Power BI
9 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (14.05%) Git
2 20 (8.26%) Selenium
3 16 (6.61%) JIRA
3 16 (6.61%) Postman
4 15 (6.20%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.37%) SoapUI
6 12 (4.96%) JMeter
6 12 (4.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (4.13%) MSTest
7 10 (4.13%) Visual Studio
8 9 (3.72%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.89%) LabVIEW
10 6 (2.48%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.48%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.48%) TestRail
11 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.65%) Appium
12 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
12 4 (1.65%) JUnit
13 3 (1.24%) JBehave
General
1 55 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.64%) Finance
3 27 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.02%) Automotive
7 13 (5.37%) Banking
8 12 (4.96%) Law
9 9 (3.72%) Electronics
9 9 (3.72%) Retail
10 7 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Police
14 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.83%) Games
16 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
16 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (26.45%) Developer
2 33 (13.64%) Senior
3 28 (11.57%) Software Engineer
4 25 (10.33%) Lead
5 24 (9.92%) Test Engineer
6 15 (6.20%) QA Leader
6 15 (6.20%) Tester
7 14 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.55%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.55%) Test Leader
11 10 (4.13%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.72%) Applications Developer
12 9 (3.72%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (3.72%) Test Manager
13 8 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.12%) .NET
2 23 (9.50%) React
3 22 (9.09%) HTML
4 21 (8.68%) REST
5 15 (6.20%) XML
6 14 (5.79%) .NET Core
6 14 (5.79%) CSS
7 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.37%) SOAP
8 10 (4.13%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.13%) JSON
9 9 (3.72%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.72%) Azure Blueprints
9 9 (3.72%) RESTful
9 9 (3.72%) Spring
9 9 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.72%) Web Services
10 8 (3.31%) Blazor
10 8 (3.31%) Playwright
11 6 (2.48%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 27 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (10.74%) Mobile App
4 19 (7.85%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.20%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.13%) e-Learning
6 10 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.31%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.48%) IoT
9 5 (2.07%) FMCG
10 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.83%) Infotainment
11 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.83%) Mobile Computing
12 1 (0.41%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.41%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Linux
2 6 (2.48%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.24%) Android
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.96%) Agile
2 85 (35.12%) DevOps
3 70 (28.93%) Mentoring
4 68 (28.10%) Software Testing
5 46 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (17.77%) Software Engineering
7 42 (17.36%) Functional Testing
8 40 (16.53%) SDLC
9 36 (14.88%) CI/CD
9 36 (14.88%) Test Strategy
10 32 (13.22%) Scrum
11 30 (12.40%) Test Scripting
12 28 (11.57%) Non-Functional Testing
13 27 (11.16%) Coaching
14 26 (10.74%) Containerisation
14 26 (10.74%) Performance Testing
14 26 (10.74%) Security Testing
15 25 (10.33%) Manual Testing
16 23 (9.50%) API Testing
16 23 (9.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.17%) C#
2 54 (22.31%) SQL
3 38 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.88%) Python
5 35 (14.46%) Java
6 22 (9.09%) C
7 13 (5.37%) C++
8 9 (3.72%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.89%) PHP
10 5 (2.07%) Embedded C
10 5 (2.07%) Embedded C++
10 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.65%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.65%) VB
12 3 (1.24%) Dart
12 3 (1.24%) Groovy
12 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (14.88%) Degree
2 21 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.89%) ISEB
5 7 (2.89%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (31.82%) QA
2 10 (4.13%) NCSC
3 6 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) JTAG
4 3 (1.24%) MISRA
4 3 (1.24%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (9.09%) Docker
2 8 (3.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.68%) Terraform
3 9 (3.72%) Ansible
4 8 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.55%) IBM
3 8 (3.31%) Databricks
3 8 (3.31%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.31%) Xamarin
4 7 (2.89%) InterSystems
5 6 (2.48%) Google
5 6 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.48%) Oracle
5 6 (2.48%) SAP
5 6 (2.48%) YouTube
6 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.07%) SYSPRO
7 4 (1.65%) Siemens
8 3 (1.24%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.24%) Telerik
9 1 (0.41%) Denodo
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk