Automation Tester Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automation Tester
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Automation Tester salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 83 70
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 3 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.30% 0.26% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.31% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36,750 - -
25th Percentile £39,375 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £56,250 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 988 654 756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.53% 84.39% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 832 407 529
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £37,099 £41,058 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +14.58% +6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Automation Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP