Test Automation Jobs in South Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 19 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 51 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -32
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 28 17 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.30% 3.32% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.51% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 21
10th Percentile £47,431 £46,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £54,829 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,993 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,597 - £66,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.80% +19.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 485 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 77.59% 94.73% 97.24%
Number of salaries quoted 304 396 550
10th Percentile £35,075 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield +11 28 £65,465 +19.03% 5
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (7.14%) Appian
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Tuxedo
1 2 (7.14%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.57%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MySQL
2 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Postman
1 10 (35.71%) Selenium
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Mocha
2 2 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (7.14%) Subversion
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.57%) TestComplete
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Test Automation Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Verification Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Node.js
2 7 (25.00%) RESTful
3 5 (17.86%) JSON
4 3 (10.71%) HTML
4 3 (10.71%) XML
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) Ajax
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) HTML5
5 2 (7.14%) jQuery
5 2 (7.14%) JSON Schema
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Phone
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) DevOps
2 12 (42.86%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 11 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (35.71%) SDLC
5 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
6 8 (28.57%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) BDD
7 7 (25.00%) Coaching
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (21.43%) Microservices
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
10 3 (10.71%) Customer Requirements
10 3 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Regression Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Scrum
10 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) COBOL
5 2 (7.14%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 1 (3.57%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) ISTQB
2 9 (32.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) PhD
5 1 (3.57%) ISEB
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) QA
2 9 (32.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) ANSYS
2 2 (7.14%) Micro Focus
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Concur