Test Automation Jobs in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 61 33
Rank change year-on-year -24 -28 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 77 262 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.55% 5.03% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 5.13% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 62 84 238
10th Percentile £33,025 £37,583 £36,654
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,107 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £72,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,625
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.69% +8.68%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,608 5,105 4,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.53% 97.95% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 2,322 3,120
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,890 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,393 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +9.47%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Leeds -31 65 £53,500 -10.83% 26
Wakefield +23 7 £55,000 +27.91%
Bradford +6 2 £65,000 - 1
Halifax +35 1 £70,576 -2.93%
Ilkley - 1 £42,500 -
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) Azure
2 29 (37.66%) AWS
3 21 (27.27%) GCP
4 11 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.39%) Slack
6 6 (7.79%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (7.79%) BrowserStack
7 5 (6.49%) GitHub
7 5 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.90%) SaaS
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.60%) Serverless
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Internet
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) HTTP
3 1 (1.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) GIS
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (32.47%) Selenium
2 23 (29.87%) Git
3 13 (16.88%) CircleCI
4 12 (15.58%) Cucumber
4 12 (15.58%) JIRA
4 12 (15.58%) Postman
5 11 (14.29%) JMeter
6 9 (11.69%) JUnit
7 8 (10.39%) GitLab
7 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
8 7 (9.09%) MSTest
9 6 (7.79%) Appium
9 6 (7.79%) HP UFT
10 5 (6.49%) LoadRunner
10 5 (6.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
11 4 (5.19%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (5.19%) SpecFlow
11 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Banking
3 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Automotive
4 6 (7.79%) Electronics
4 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.19%) Marketing
5 4 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Local Government
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Lead
2 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) QA Leader
6 7 (9.09%) Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
6 7 (9.09%) Software Manager
7 6 (7.79%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Administrator
8 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Pensions Administrator
8 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Software Test Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) RESTful
2 11 (14.29%) .NET
3 6 (7.79%) Node.js
3 6 (7.79%) Web Services
4 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.19%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.19%) HTML
5 4 (5.19%) XML
5 4 (5.19%) XSLT
6 3 (3.90%) Playwright
6 3 (3.90%) React
6 3 (3.90%) REST
7 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.60%) Blazor
7 2 (2.60%) CSS
7 2 (2.60%) Jest
7 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.60%) Sass
7 2 (2.60%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.09%) NHS
3 6 (7.79%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) IoT
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (2.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) Agile
2 35 (45.45%) DevOps
3 32 (41.56%) Software Testing
4 25 (32.47%) CI/CD
5 23 (29.87%) BDD
5 23 (29.87%) Coaching
6 20 (25.97%) Software Engineering
7 18 (23.38%) Mentoring
8 15 (19.48%) Roadmaps
9 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.88%) Test Scripting
10 12 (15.58%) Continuous Deployment
11 11 (14.29%) Microservices
11 11 (14.29%) Performance Testing
11 11 (14.29%) TDD
12 10 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (12.99%) Project Management
13 9 (11.69%) Process Improvement
13 9 (11.69%) Regression Testing
13 9 (11.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) C#
3 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.99%) Java
4 10 (12.99%) Python
5 6 (7.79%) C
5 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.19%) Groovy
7 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) Ruby
8 1 (1.30%) Swift
8 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 8 (10.39%) ISTQB
3 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.49%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.19%) CIPD
5 4 (5.19%) DBS Check
5 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) ISEB
8 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) QA
2 8 (10.39%) GDPR
2 8 (10.39%) PSD2
3 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Server
3 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) Google
3 8 (10.39%) Duck Creek
4 4 (5.19%) VMware
5 2 (2.60%) Brio
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) BT
6 1 (1.30%) Cadence
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk