Test Automation Jobs in South Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 18 32
Rank change year-on-year -58 +14 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 16 214 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.19% 13.63% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 13.82% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 51
10th Percentile - - £41,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,875 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,113 1,548 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 82.75% 98.60% 90.65%
Number of salaries quoted 889 525 666
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,800 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +7.37%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Sheffield -57 10 £57,965 +23.33% 3
Rotherham +6 4 - - 2
Doncaster +13 1 £60,000 +9.09%
Barnsley +2 1 £60,000 -
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.25%) Boomi
1 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) 3G
1 4 (25.00%) 4G
1 4 (25.00%) MQTT
1 4 (25.00%) RS-485
1 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Multicast
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) Appium
2 4 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (25.00%) Protractor
3 3 (18.75%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 4 (25.00%) Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Test Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Head of QA
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (37.50%) Regression Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Scrum
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (25.00%) OO
5 4 (25.00%) OOD
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) User Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) C++
2 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ISEB
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Infor