Test Automation Jobs in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 39 28
Rank change year-on-year -33 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 65 203 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.85% 6.64% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 6.82% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 50 73 213
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,778 £36,654
25th Percentile £45,313 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,200 £72,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,250 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.66% +6.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,977 3,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 86.92% 97.41% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 1,720 2,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,308 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,950 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire 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 Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (13.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 36 (55.38%) Azure
2 29 (44.62%) AWS
3 21 (32.31%) GCP
4 11 (16.92%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (12.31%) Slack
6 6 (9.23%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (9.23%) BrowserStack
7 5 (7.69%) GitHub
7 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.62%) SaaS
9 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.31%) Data Lake
2 8 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) MySQL
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (36.92%) Selenium
2 17 (26.15%) Git
3 13 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 11 (16.92%) Cucumber
4 11 (16.92%) JIRA
4 11 (16.92%) JMeter
5 9 (13.85%) Postman
6 8 (12.31%) GitLab
6 8 (12.31%) Jenkins
6 8 (12.31%) JUnit
7 6 (9.23%) Appium
8 5 (7.69%) HP UFT
8 5 (7.69%) LoadRunner
8 5 (7.69%) MSTest
8 5 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
9 4 (6.15%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (3.08%) Burp Suite
10 2 (3.08%) SpecFlow
10 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.15%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Games
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Local Government
8 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Lead
2 14 (21.54%) Senior
3 10 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) QA Leader
5 7 (10.77%) Engineering Manager
5 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering Manager
5 7 (10.77%) Software Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Administrator
6 5 (7.69%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Pensions Administrator
6 5 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) RESTful
2 8 (12.31%) .NET
3 6 (9.23%) Web Services
4 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.15%) Gherkin
4 4 (6.15%) HTML
4 4 (6.15%) Node.js
4 4 (6.15%) XML
4 4 (6.15%) XSLT
5 3 (4.62%) Playwright
5 3 (4.62%) REST
6 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.08%) Blazor
6 2 (3.08%) SignalR
7 1 (1.54%) React
7 1 (1.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.77%) NHS
3 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Android
1 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (63.08%) Agile
2 35 (53.85%) DevOps
3 31 (47.69%) Software Testing
4 25 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 23 (35.38%) BDD
5 23 (35.38%) Coaching
6 18 (27.69%) Mentoring
7 14 (21.54%) Roadmaps
7 14 (21.54%) Software Engineering
8 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 12 (18.46%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (16.92%) Microservices
10 11 (16.92%) Performance Testing
10 11 (16.92%) Test Scripting
11 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (15.38%) Project Management
12 9 (13.85%) Process Improvement
12 9 (13.85%) Regression Testing
12 9 (13.85%) Scrum
12 9 (13.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.31%) SQL
2 16 (24.62%) C#
3 10 (15.38%) Java
3 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) Groovy
4 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.62%) Python
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) Ruby
6 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) ISTQB
2 7 (10.77%) Degree
3 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (6.15%) CIPD
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) ISEB
7 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.15%) QA
2 8 (12.31%) GDPR
2 8 (12.31%) PSD2
3 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.46%) Google
3 8 (12.31%) Duck Creek
4 4 (6.15%) VMware
5 2 (3.08%) Brio
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) BT
6 1 (1.54%) Cadence
6 1 (1.54%) New Relic
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk