Test Automation Jobs in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 84 48 61
Rank change year-on-year -36 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 35 71 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.89% 5.50% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 5.68% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27 36 30
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £38,625
25th Percentile £48,500 £48,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £71,991 £66,563 £62,000
90th Percentile - £71,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,250 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 87.01% 96.75% 87.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 606 930
10th Percentile £27,873 £30,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,625 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +14.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £73,750 £75,250
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -24 32 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Northumberland - 3 £49,500 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Power Automate
3 9 (25.71%) SaaS
4 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
4 8 (22.86%) PowerApps
5 6 (17.14%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Fabric
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.57%) Serverless
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) MySQL
2 8 (22.86%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 8 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 4 (11.43%) Selenium
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.86%) Bugzilla
5 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Mockito
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 13 (37.14%) Law
2 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 5 (14.29%) Legal
4 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Games
6 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Applications Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Consultant
4 5 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 5 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Senior IT Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Tester
6 3 (8.57%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) RESTful
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) JSON
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) Spring
3 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.71%) Playwright
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.86%) Laravel
5 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) Swagger
5 1 (2.86%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
1 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Software Engineering
3 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Mentoring
4 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (31.43%) CRM
5 10 (28.57%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (22.86%) Coaching
6 8 (22.86%) Microservices
6 8 (22.86%) TDD
7 7 (20.00%) BDD
7 7 (20.00%) Build Automation
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
8 6 (17.14%) Line Management
8 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
8 6 (17.14%) Ticket Management
9 5 (14.29%) BPR
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) Python
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (14.29%) iManage
3 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) HP
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle