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 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 111 30 54
Rank change year-on-year -81 +24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 251 727 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.15% 7.55% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 7.82% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 211 245 348
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £37,762
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
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 9,609 9,297 10,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.46% 96.61% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,116 4,653 6,957
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,553 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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% 46
East Midlands -93 64 £47,500 -13.64% 33
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 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.68%) Azure
2 62 (24.70%) AWS
3 22 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.17%) GitHub
5 13 (5.18%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.38%) SaaS
8 9 (3.59%) PaaS
9 8 (3.19%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.19%) IaaS
9 8 (3.19%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.19%) OCI
9 8 (3.19%) Route 53
10 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.39%) BrowserStack
11 6 (2.39%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.39%) Serverless
12 5 (1.99%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) FlexRay
2 5 (1.99%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.59%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.59%) MQTT
3 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.59%) Wireless
4 3 (1.20%) 5G
4 3 (1.20%) HTTP
4 3 (1.20%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.80%) Internet
5 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.40%) SCTP
6 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.78%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.98%) DynamoDB
3 10 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.79%) InterSystems Cache
6 6 (2.39%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.39%) MySQL
6 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.99%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (1.99%) Power BI
8 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (13.15%) Git
2 22 (8.76%) Selenium
3 17 (6.77%) Cucumber
4 16 (6.37%) JIRA
4 16 (6.37%) Postman
5 13 (5.18%) SoapUI
5 13 (5.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (4.78%) JMeter
7 11 (4.38%) Visual Studio
8 10 (3.98%) MSTest
9 8 (3.19%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.79%) LabVIEW
11 6 (2.39%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.39%) SpecFlow
11 6 (2.39%) TestRail
12 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.59%) Appium
13 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
13 4 (1.59%) JUnit
13 4 (1.59%) Maven
General
1 56 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.54%) Finance
3 29 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.77%) Automotive
7 13 (5.18%) Banking
7 13 (5.18%) Law
8 10 (3.98%) Electronics
8 10 (3.98%) Retail
9 7 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Police
10 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.20%) Games
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
11 3 (1.20%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (27.09%) Developer
2 35 (13.94%) Senior
3 29 (11.55%) Lead
4 25 (9.96%) Software Engineer
4 25 (9.96%) Test Engineer
5 18 (7.17%) QA Leader
6 16 (6.37%) Tester
7 15 (5.98%) QA Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Test Leader
10 11 (4.38%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.38%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Applications Developer
12 9 (3.59%) C# Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.33%) .NET
2 24 (9.56%) React
3 23 (9.16%) HTML
4 22 (8.76%) REST
5 15 (5.98%) .NET Core
5 15 (5.98%) CSS
5 15 (5.98%) XML
6 14 (5.58%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.18%) SOAP
7 13 (5.18%) Spring
7 13 (5.18%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.38%) RESTful
9 10 (3.98%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.98%) JSON
10 8 (3.19%) ARM Templates
10 8 (3.19%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (3.19%) Blazor
10 8 (3.19%) Playwright
10 8 (3.19%) Web Services
11 6 (2.39%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.15%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.76%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (10.36%) Mobile App
4 18 (7.17%) Management Information System
5 15 (5.98%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (3.98%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.19%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.39%) IoT
10 5 (1.99%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.99%) FMCG
11 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.80%) Infotainment
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.80%) Mobile Computing
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.40%) Genomics
12 1 (0.40%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Linux
2 6 (2.39%) Windows
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Android
4 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (56.57%) Agile
2 84 (33.47%) DevOps
3 73 (29.08%) Software Testing
4 69 (27.49%) Mentoring
5 47 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (17.53%) Functional Testing
7 42 (16.73%) SDLC
8 41 (16.33%) CI/CD
9 39 (15.54%) Scrum
9 39 (15.54%) Software Engineering
10 37 (14.74%) Test Strategy
11 31 (12.35%) Test Scripting
12 30 (11.95%) Non-Functional Testing
13 29 (11.55%) Coaching
14 26 (10.36%) Manual Testing
14 26 (10.36%) Performance Testing
14 26 (10.36%) Security Testing
15 25 (9.96%) Containerisation
16 24 (9.56%) Computer Science
17 23 (9.16%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.28%) C#
2 59 (23.51%) SQL
3 42 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 40 (15.94%) Python
5 39 (15.54%) Java
6 22 (8.76%) C
7 11 (4.38%) C++
7 11 (4.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.39%) PHP
8 6 (2.39%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.99%) Embedded C
9 5 (1.99%) Embedded C++
9 5 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.59%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.59%) VB
11 3 (1.20%) Bash
11 3 (1.20%) Dart
11 3 (1.20%) Groovy
11 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (14.74%) Degree
2 18 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.19%) ISEB
5 8 (3.19%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.59%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (33.07%) QA
2 9 (3.59%) NCSC
3 7 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) JTAG
4 3 (1.20%) MISRA
4 3 (1.20%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (9.16%) Docker
2 8 (3.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.97%) Terraform
3 8 (3.19%) Ansible
3 8 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.38%) IBM
3 10 (3.98%) Databricks
4 8 (3.19%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.19%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.19%) Xamarin
5 7 (2.79%) InterSystems
5 7 (2.79%) SAP
6 6 (2.39%) Google
6 6 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.39%) Oracle
6 6 (2.39%) YouTube
7 5 (1.99%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.99%) SYSPRO
8 4 (1.59%) Siemens
9 3 (1.20%) Lauterbach
9 3 (1.20%) Telerik
10 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.40%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Talend