Test Automation Jobs in Belfast

Automated Testing
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 56 47
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 10 7 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 5.85% 1.36% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 1.56% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £47,000 £43,650 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,500 - £73,750
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 450 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 94.15% 87.72% 97.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36 224 395
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,000 £31,550
25th Percentile £49,375 £33,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,940 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,041 £87,500 £69,600
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +8.70%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Belfast

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Belfast

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Belfast over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Belfast

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (50.00%) nginx
1 5 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (50.00%) JUnit
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 5 (50.00%) Mockito
3 5 (50.00%) Postman
3 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) TestNG
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 5 (50.00%) Guice
2 5 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 5 (50.00%) Mustache
2 5 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) Swagger
2 5 (50.00%) WireMock
3 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) BDD
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Code Quality
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 5 (50.00%) MVC
2 5 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) OOP
2 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) System Testing
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 5 (50.00%) Packer
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat