Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 30 57
Rank change year-on-year -83 +27 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 248 713 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.12% 7.50% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 7.76% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 209 240 349
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,875 £72,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,646 9,184 10,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.40% 96.58% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,120 4,626 6,973
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £34,834 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,625 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Midlands -61 186 £50,000 -11.47% 48
East Midlands -102 61 £47,500 -13.64% 30
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.65%) Azure
2 62 (25.00%) AWS
3 21 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.26%) GitHub
5 13 (5.24%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.44%) SaaS
8 9 (3.63%) PaaS
9 8 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.23%) IaaS
9 8 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.23%) OCI
9 8 (3.23%) Route 53
10 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.42%) BrowserStack
11 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.42%) Serverless
12 5 (2.02%) Azure Pipelines
12 5 (2.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.82%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.02%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.61%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.61%) MQTT
3 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.61%) Wireless
4 3 (1.21%) HTTP
4 3 (1.21%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.81%) 5G
5 2 (0.81%) Internet
5 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.40%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.03%) DynamoDB
3 10 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.82%) InterSystems Cache
6 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.42%) MySQL
6 6 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.02%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (2.02%) Power BI
8 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (13.71%) Git
2 22 (8.87%) Selenium
3 17 (6.85%) Cucumber
4 16 (6.45%) JIRA
4 16 (6.45%) Postman
5 13 (5.24%) SoapUI
6 12 (4.84%) JMeter
6 12 (4.84%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (4.03%) MSTest
7 10 (4.03%) Visual Studio
8 8 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.82%) LabVIEW
10 6 (2.42%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.42%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.42%) TestRail
11 5 (2.02%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.61%) Appium
12 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
12 4 (1.61%) JUnit
12 4 (1.61%) Maven
General
1 57 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.32%) Finance
3 29 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.85%) Automotive
7 13 (5.24%) Banking
8 12 (4.84%) Law
9 10 (4.03%) Electronics
10 9 (3.63%) Retail
11 7 (2.82%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Police
13 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.21%) Games
14 3 (1.21%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.81%) Marketing
16 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (27.82%) Developer
2 35 (14.11%) Senior
3 28 (11.29%) Lead
4 24 (9.68%) Software Engineer
4 24 (9.68%) Test Engineer
5 17 (6.85%) QA Leader
6 15 (6.05%) QA Engineer
6 15 (6.05%) Tester
7 14 (5.65%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (4.44%) IT Manager
8 11 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (4.44%) Software Developer
8 11 (4.44%) Test Leader
9 10 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.63%) Applications Developer
10 9 (3.63%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.63%) Embedded Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.13%) .NET
2 24 (9.68%) HTML
2 24 (9.68%) React
3 21 (8.47%) REST
4 16 (6.45%) CSS
5 15 (6.05%) .NET Core
5 15 (6.05%) XML
6 14 (5.65%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.24%) SOAP
7 13 (5.24%) Spring
7 13 (5.24%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.44%) RESTful
9 10 (4.03%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.03%) JSON
10 8 (3.23%) ARM Templates
10 8 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (3.23%) Blazor
10 8 (3.23%) Playwright
10 8 (3.23%) Web Services
11 6 (2.42%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.71%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.48%) Mobile App
2 26 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.26%) Management Information System
4 15 (6.05%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (4.03%) e-Learning
6 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.23%) Blockchain
7 8 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.42%) IoT
9 5 (2.02%) FMCG
10 4 (1.61%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Infotainment
11 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.81%) Mobile Computing
12 1 (0.40%) Acoustics
12 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.23%) Linux
2 6 (2.42%) Windows
3 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Android
4 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (56.85%) Agile
2 83 (33.47%) DevOps
3 71 (28.63%) Software Testing
4 70 (28.23%) Mentoring
5 46 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (17.34%) Functional Testing
7 42 (16.94%) CI/CD
8 39 (15.73%) Scrum
8 39 (15.73%) SDLC
9 38 (15.32%) Software Engineering
10 37 (14.92%) Test Strategy
11 30 (12.10%) Test Scripting
12 29 (11.69%) Coaching
12 29 (11.69%) Non-Functional Testing
13 26 (10.48%) Performance Testing
13 26 (10.48%) Security Testing
14 25 (10.08%) Containerisation
14 25 (10.08%) Manual Testing
15 23 (9.27%) API Testing
15 23 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.65%) C#
2 57 (22.98%) SQL
3 43 (17.34%) JavaScript
4 39 (15.73%) Java
5 38 (15.32%) Python
6 22 (8.87%) C
7 11 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.03%) C++
9 6 (2.42%) PHP
9 6 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.02%) Embedded C
10 5 (2.02%) Embedded C++
10 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.61%) VB
12 3 (1.21%) Dart
12 3 (1.21%) Groovy
12 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.21%) Ruby
12 3 (1.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (14.52%) Degree
2 18 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.82%) ISEB
5 7 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.61%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (32.26%) QA
2 9 (3.63%) NCSC
3 8 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.21%) JTAG
4 3 (1.21%) MISRA
4 3 (1.21%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (9.27%) Docker
2 8 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.06%) Terraform
3 8 (3.23%) Ansible
3 8 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.44%) IBM
3 10 (4.03%) Databricks
4 8 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.23%) Xamarin
5 7 (2.82%) InterSystems
5 7 (2.82%) SAP
6 6 (2.42%) Google
6 6 (2.42%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.42%) Oracle
6 6 (2.42%) YouTube
7 5 (2.02%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.02%) SYSPRO
8 4 (1.61%) Siemens
9 3 (1.21%) Lauterbach
9 3 (1.21%) Telerik
10 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Talend