Test Automation Jobs in Leicestershire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -53 +18 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 20 78 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.84% 9.63% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 9.85% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 55
10th Percentile - £37,500 £24,850
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% +71.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £49,250 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £66,500
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 956 792 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 87.87% 97.78% 89.82%
Number of salaries quoted 540 250 588
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £24,588
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £43,162
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +10.05% -4.09%
75th Percentile £59,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,575 £67,810 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £44,162 £50,498 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.55% +6.31% +5.56%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Loughborough -14 8 £36,500 - 2
Coalville -2 5 £48,500 +21.25%
Leicester -39 3 - - 3
Hinckley - 1 - - 1
Lutterworth - 1 - - 1
Market Harborough - 1 - -
Wigston - 1 - -
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) OCI
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) IBM Cloud
2 8 (40.00%) Route 53
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeStar
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 7 (35.00%) QA Leader
2 7 (35.00%) Test Leader
3 4 (20.00%) Control Systems Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Blockchain
1 8 (40.00%) e-Learning
1 8 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (35.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (20.00%) FMCG
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
1 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (40.00%) Coaching
3 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (40.00%) Observability
3 8 (40.00%) Secrets Management
3 8 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
4 7 (35.00%) Manual Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.00%) Scrum
5 1 (5.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) ISEB
1 7 (35.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 8 (40.00%) IBM
1 8 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Siemens
4 1 (5.00%) Black Duck
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow