Test Automation Jobs in Birmingham

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 73 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -25 +32
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 26 75 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.82% 2.72% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 3.31% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17 72 58
10th Percentile £38,250 £36,375 £48,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,438 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £75,563
90th Percentile £67,750 £82,000 £90,750
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,359 2,265 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.90% 82.04% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 760 1,831 1,373
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,300
25th Percentile £42,688 £40,988 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,957 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Birmingham

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.85%) Route 53
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
1 1 (3.85%) IOS XR
1 1 (3.85%) MPLS
1 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Selenium
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Postman
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) WebDriver
4 2 (7.69%) NUnit
4 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.85%) Appium
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) DbUnit
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) jMock
5 1 (3.85%) JUnit
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) Mockito
5 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) TestComplete
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Law
5 2 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Analytics Manager
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Playwright
2 2 (7.69%) gRPC
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) React
2 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) Jinja
3 1 (3.85%) OpenConfig
3 1 (3.85%) PowerMock
3 1 (3.85%) React Native
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Reference Data
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Robotics
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
1 11 (42.31%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) ERP
3 7 (26.92%) Manual Testing
3 7 (26.92%) Project Management
3 7 (26.92%) Test Strategy
3 7 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (23.08%) API Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 6 (23.08%) TDD
5 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
5 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
5 5 (19.23%) Financial Modelling
5 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
5 5 (19.23%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.85%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ACCA
1 5 (19.23%) CIMA
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Alteryx
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Juniper
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) UiPath