Test Automation Jobs in Manchester

Automated Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 37 30
Rank change year-on-year -47 -7 +25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 158 392 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.05% 8.03% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 8.31% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 84 119 285
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,482 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +8.26% +6.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,347 £77,543 £75,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% +18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,476 4,718 5,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.38% 96.64% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,412 2,511 3,579
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,389
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,600 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 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
Stockport +4 10 £70,000 +115.38% 2
Rochdale +6 6 - -
Bolton -2 6 - - 2
Salford -8 6 - - 4
Altrincham -10 2 - - 3
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (3.80%) Confluence
2 4 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (2.53%) CMS
2 4 (2.53%) IIS
2 4 (2.53%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.27%) WordPress
4 1 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.51%) AWS
2 34 (21.52%) Amazon S3
3 31 (19.62%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (18.99%) Amazon ECR
4 30 (18.99%) IBM Cloud
4 30 (18.99%) OCI
4 30 (18.99%) Route 53
5 21 (13.29%) Azure
6 15 (9.49%) SaaS
7 11 (6.96%) GitHub
8 10 (6.33%) Google Play
9 7 (4.43%) Serverless
10 5 (3.16%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.27%) CloudFront
13 2 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) DNS
1 4 (2.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.99%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.96%) MySQL
4 8 (5.06%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.27%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 30 (18.99%) Git
2 17 (10.76%) Appium
3 15 (9.49%) Cypress.io
3 15 (9.49%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.96%) Jasmine
5 8 (5.06%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.43%) JIRA
6 7 (4.43%) Selenium
7 6 (3.80%) Postman
8 5 (3.16%) Clang
8 5 (3.16%) JMeter
9 2 (1.27%) GitLab
9 2 (1.27%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.27%) Storybook
9 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.27%) webpack
10 1 (0.63%) Capybara
10 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 47 (29.75%) Public Sector
2 41 (25.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (17.72%) Finance
4 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
5 12 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.33%) Retail
7 6 (3.80%) Automotive
8 3 (1.90%) Advertising
8 3 (1.90%) Aviation
9 2 (1.27%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (37.34%) Senior
2 46 (29.11%) Developer
3 31 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (18.99%) Senior DevOps
4 30 (18.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 21 (13.29%) Lead
5 21 (13.29%) Software Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.49%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Android Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Android Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Analyst
10 8 (5.06%) Compiler Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.06%) Test Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) React Developer
11 7 (4.43%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.66%) RESTful
2 19 (12.03%) CSS
3 17 (10.76%) HTML
3 17 (10.76%) JSON
4 16 (10.13%) REST
5 14 (8.86%) Node.js
5 14 (8.86%) React
6 13 (8.23%) Jest
7 10 (6.33%) Android SDK
8 9 (5.70%) .NET
8 9 (5.70%) CSS3
9 8 (5.06%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.06%) HTML5
9 8 (5.06%) LLVM
10 7 (4.43%) Playwright
10 7 (4.43%) React Native
11 6 (3.80%) NestJS
12 5 (3.16%) Sass
13 4 (2.53%) OAuth
13 4 (2.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.99%) Blockchain
1 30 (18.99%) e-Learning
1 30 (18.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (8.23%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.80%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.90%) Blog
8 3 (1.90%) IoT
9 2 (1.27%) Animation
10 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) FMCG
10 1 (0.63%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.63%) PMI
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
10 1 (0.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.92%) Linux
2 19 (12.03%) Windows
3 13 (8.23%) Android
4 7 (4.43%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.53%) VMS
5 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (78.48%) Agile
2 63 (39.87%) Mentoring
3 62 (39.24%) DevOps
4 57 (36.08%) Coaching
5 41 (25.95%) Software Engineering
6 40 (25.32%) TDD
7 36 (22.78%) Containerisation
8 34 (21.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 32 (20.25%) CI/CD
10 31 (19.62%) Observability
11 30 (18.99%) Secrets Management
12 25 (15.82%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (15.19%) Software Testing
14 22 (13.92%) Design Patterns
15 21 (13.29%) Fintech
16 19 (12.03%) Microservices
17 16 (10.13%) Computer Science
17 16 (10.13%) Pair Programming
17 16 (10.13%) SDLC
18 15 (9.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.95%) Java
2 31 (19.62%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.35%) Python
4 24 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.66%) C
6 18 (11.39%) SQL
7 17 (10.76%) C#
8 14 (8.86%) Go
9 12 (7.59%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.80%) Ruby
11 5 (3.16%) Fortran
12 4 (2.53%) C++
13 3 (1.90%) PHP
14 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (18.99%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.27%) BC Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.27%) HND
3 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.27%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.89%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (4.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (24.68%) Terraform
2 34 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 11 (6.96%) Ansible
5 8 (5.06%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.80%) Kibana
7 5 (3.16%) Grafana
8 1 (0.63%) Kiali
Vendors
1 30 (18.99%) Dynatrace
1 30 (18.99%) IBM
1 30 (18.99%) Red Hat
2 10 (6.33%) Google
3 6 (3.80%) Adobe
4 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.16%) YouTube
5 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.63%) BT
7 1 (0.63%) SAP
7 1 (0.63%) Workday