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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 78 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 -30 +29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 25 74 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.78% 2.67% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.27% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 16 71 57
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £92,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 1,333 2,266 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.01% 81.69% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,833 1,342
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,892 £40,988 £43,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,625 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 17 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 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.00%) Route 53
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Postman
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (8.00%) NUnit
4 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) Appium
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) DbUnit
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) jMock
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) TestComplete
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analytics Manager
1 5 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Playwright
2 2 (8.00%) gRPC
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) JPA
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) React Native
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Symfony
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Robotics
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Project Management
3 7 (28.00%) Test Strategy
3 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (24.00%) API Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (24.00%) ERP
4 6 (24.00%) Manual Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (24.00%) TDD
5 5 (20.00%) Analytics
5 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) C#
2 6 (24.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) ACCA
1 5 (20.00%) CIMA
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Alteryx
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) UiPath