Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 31 65
Rank change year-on-year -60 +34 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 186 490 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.56% 7.46% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 7.70% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 160 168 203
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,480 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% +12.96% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £76,375 £78,750 £84,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,033 6,360 6,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.12% 96.80% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 3,272 4,767
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,713 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Birmingham -22 74 £50,000 -16.67% 21
Warwickshire -15 26 £44,000 -16.19% 3
Staffordshire -29 17 £63,750 +34.21% 5
Coventry -12 16 £49,000 -10.91% 5
Shropshire -19 12 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Solihull +1 8 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Worcestershire -16 7 £50,000 +21.90% 9
Wolverhampton -8 4 £60,000 - 2
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (29.57%) Azure
2 47 (25.27%) AWS
3 19 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.68%) GitHub
5 12 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (4.84%) PaaS
6 9 (4.84%) SaaS
7 8 (4.30%) IaaS
8 7 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.23%) Serverless
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.69%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.69%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (2.69%) WhatsApp
11 4 (2.15%) GCP
12 3 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.61%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.69%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.15%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.15%) MQTT
3 4 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.15%) Wireless
4 3 (1.61%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.08%) 5G
6 1 (0.54%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.54%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.38%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.76%) InterSystems Cache
5 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.23%) MySQL
5 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.69%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (2.69%) Power BI
7 4 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Git
2 13 (6.99%) Selenium
3 11 (5.91%) Cucumber
3 11 (5.91%) Postman
4 10 (5.38%) MSTest
5 8 (4.30%) JIRA
5 8 (4.30%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.30%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.76%) LabVIEW
7 5 (2.69%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.69%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.15%) Maven
9 3 (1.61%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (1.61%) JMeter
9 3 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.08%) NUnit
11 1 (0.54%) fastlane
11 1 (0.54%) JUnit
11 1 (0.54%) Sourcetree
General
1 51 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Finance
3 29 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.14%) Automotive
6 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.45%) Banking
8 10 (5.38%) Electronics
9 6 (3.23%) Retail
10 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Police
10 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.61%) Games
11 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.61%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Law
12 2 (1.08%) Marketing
13 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Developer
2 30 (16.13%) Senior
3 21 (11.29%) Software Engineer
4 20 (10.75%) Test Engineer
5 15 (8.06%) Lead
6 11 (5.91%) IT Manager
6 11 (5.91%) QA Engineer
6 11 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (5.91%) Tester
7 10 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.84%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.30%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (4.30%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Junior
9 8 (4.30%) QA Leader
9 8 (4.30%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.76%) Audit Manager
10 7 (3.76%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.74%) .NET
2 18 (9.68%) React
3 16 (8.60%) HTML
4 15 (8.06%) XML
5 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET
5 13 (6.99%) Spring
5 13 (6.99%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.45%) .NET Core
7 11 (5.91%) REST
7 11 (5.91%) RESTful
8 10 (5.38%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.38%) JSON
9 8 (4.30%) ARM Templates
9 8 (4.30%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (4.30%) Blazor
9 8 (4.30%) CSS
9 8 (4.30%) Web Services
10 5 (2.69%) EDI
10 5 (2.69%) Node.js
10 5 (2.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 26 (13.98%) Mobile App
3 19 (10.22%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (9.68%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.45%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (4.84%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.23%) IoT
8 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.54%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.54%) FMCG
9 1 (0.54%) Genomics
9 1 (0.54%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.23%) Linux
1 6 (3.23%) Windows
2 4 (2.15%) Unix
3 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.38%) Agile
2 61 (32.80%) DevOps
3 60 (32.26%) Software Testing
4 55 (29.57%) Mentoring
5 43 (23.12%) Functional Testing
6 38 (20.43%) CI/CD
6 38 (20.43%) Scrum
7 34 (18.28%) Test Strategy
8 33 (17.74%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.13%) SDLC
11 29 (15.59%) Non-Functional Testing
12 28 (15.05%) Test Scripting
13 26 (13.98%) Security Testing
14 21 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (11.29%) Test Planning
15 20 (10.75%) BDD
15 20 (10.75%) Computer Science
15 20 (10.75%) User Experience
16 19 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.96%) C#
1 52 (27.96%) SQL
2 33 (17.74%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.13%) Java
3 30 (16.13%) Python
4 17 (9.14%) C
5 10 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.76%) C++
7 5 (2.69%) Embedded C
7 5 (2.69%) Embedded C++
7 5 (2.69%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.15%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.15%) VB
9 3 (1.61%) Dart
9 3 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) R
10 1 (0.54%) Swift
10 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (17.74%) Degree
2 15 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (30.11%) QA
2 9 (4.84%) NCSC
3 8 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.61%) JTAG
5 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (11.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.91%) Terraform
3 8 (4.30%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) Databricks
3 8 (4.30%) Xamarin
4 7 (3.76%) InterSystems
4 7 (3.76%) SAP
5 6 (3.23%) Google
5 6 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (3.23%) Oracle
5 6 (3.23%) YouTube
6 5 (2.69%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.69%) SYSPRO
7 3 (1.61%) IBM
7 3 (1.61%) Lauterbach
7 3 (1.61%) Telerik
8 1 (0.54%) Denodo
8 1 (0.54%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.54%) Splunk
8 1 (0.54%) Talend