Test Automation Jobs in the North West

Automated Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -70 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 245 522 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 7.19% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 7.52% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 134 130 349
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.26% +18.03%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,347 £78,875 £78,750
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 West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,085 6,941 9,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 79.65% 95.62% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,603 3,839 5,331
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester -45 174 £56,482 +2.70% 59
Cheshire -11 44 £57,500 -13.21% 9
Merseyside -38 14 £41,235 -37.76% 3
Lancashire -41 12 £57,500 +6.98% 2
Cumbria - 1 £27,000 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (4.08%) Confluence
2 8 (3.27%) IIS
3 4 (1.63%) CMS
3 4 (1.63%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.82%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.82%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.29%) AWS
2 47 (19.18%) Amazon S3
3 44 (17.96%) OCI
4 43 (17.55%) Amazon EKS
5 42 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
5 42 (17.14%) IBM Cloud
5 42 (17.14%) Route 53
6 41 (16.73%) Azure
7 29 (11.84%) SaaS
8 10 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.08%) Google Play
9 9 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.67%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.27%) GitHub
10 8 (3.27%) Serverless
11 6 (2.45%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.22%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (1.22%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.63%) DNS
1 4 (1.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.49%) MySQL
4 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.82%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Big Data
8 1 (0.41%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 35 (14.29%) Git
2 27 (11.02%) Selenium
3 23 (9.39%) Appium
4 17 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.94%) JIRA
5 16 (6.53%) Cypress.io
6 14 (5.71%) JMeter
7 13 (5.31%) Postman
8 12 (4.90%) Jasmine
9 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
9 9 (3.67%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.67%) TeamCity
9 9 (3.67%) WebDriver
10 7 (2.86%) JUnit
10 7 (2.86%) SpecFlow
11 6 (2.45%) TestNG
12 5 (2.04%) Clang
13 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
14 3 (1.22%) Maven
15 2 (0.82%) LabVIEW
General
1 62 (25.31%) Public Sector
2 53 (21.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 51 (20.82%) Social Skills
4 41 (16.73%) Finance
5 22 (8.98%) Retail
6 16 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.90%) Marketing
8 8 (3.27%) Automotive
9 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Advertising
10 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.22%) Aviation
11 3 (1.22%) Banking
12 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.82%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.41%) Back Office
13 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (33.06%) Senior
2 61 (24.90%) Developer
3 45 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (17.14%) Senior DevOps
4 42 (17.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.39%) Lead
6 22 (8.98%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.57%) Tester
8 20 (8.16%) Software Developer
9 19 (7.76%) Analyst
10 15 (6.12%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.90%) Test Analyst
12 11 (4.49%) Automation Tester
13 10 (4.08%) Android Developer
13 10 (4.08%) QA Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) Senior Android Developer
14 9 (3.67%) Full Stack Developer
14 9 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.57%) .NET
1 21 (8.57%) JSON
2 19 (7.76%) CSS
3 18 (7.35%) RESTful
4 17 (6.94%) HTML
4 17 (6.94%) React
5 16 (6.53%) Node.js
5 16 (6.53%) REST
6 14 (5.71%) Jest
7 11 (4.49%) React Native
8 10 (4.08%) Android SDK
8 10 (4.08%) Playwright
9 9 (3.67%) Gherkin
10 8 (3.27%) JWT
10 8 (3.27%) LLVM
10 8 (3.27%) OAuth
10 8 (3.27%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.45%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.45%) CSS3
12 5 (2.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.14%) Blockchain
1 42 (17.14%) e-Learning
1 42 (17.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (6.94%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.63%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.63%) SCADA
9 3 (1.22%) Blog
9 3 (1.22%) IoT
10 2 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Animation
10 2 (0.82%) FMCG
11 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.80%) Linux
2 19 (7.76%) Windows
3 14 (5.71%) Android
4 11 (4.49%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.63%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.63%) VMS
5 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (71.84%) Agile
2 102 (41.63%) DevOps
3 79 (32.24%) Mentoring
4 76 (31.02%) Coaching
5 71 (28.98%) CI/CD
6 56 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 49 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 47 (19.18%) Software Engineering
8 47 (19.18%) Software Testing
9 46 (18.78%) Continuous Integration
10 44 (17.96%) TDD
11 43 (17.55%) Observability
12 42 (17.14%) Secrets Management
13 29 (11.84%) SDLC
14 28 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.02%) Scrum
16 25 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (10.20%) Fintech
17 24 (9.80%) Design Patterns
18 22 (8.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.71%) JavaScript
2 53 (21.63%) Java
3 49 (20.00%) C#
4 37 (15.10%) Python
5 26 (10.61%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.20%) SQL
7 22 (8.98%) C
8 18 (7.35%) Go
9 13 (5.31%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.86%) C++
11 6 (2.45%) Ruby
12 5 (2.04%) Fortran
13 4 (1.63%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.22%) PHP
14 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.82%) Perl
15 2 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (13.06%) Degree
2 15 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.49%) ISTQB
3 11 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.22%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.82%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.22%) QA
2 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (4.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (21.63%) Terraform
2 50 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (17.14%) Prometheus
4 13 (5.31%) Ansible
5 9 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.45%) Kibana
7 5 (2.04%) Grafana
8 1 (0.41%) Kiali
Vendors
1 42 (17.14%) Dynatrace
1 42 (17.14%) IBM
1 42 (17.14%) Red Hat
2 17 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.49%) Google
4 7 (2.86%) BT
5 5 (2.04%) YouTube
6 4 (1.63%) Facebook
7 3 (1.22%) Adobe
7 3 (1.22%) SAP
8 2 (0.82%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.82%) Black Duck
8 2 (0.82%) EMC
8 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk
9 1 (0.41%) Workday