Test Automation Jobs in Cheshire

Automated Testing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 63 45 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.20% 2.61% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 3.43% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 7
10th Percentile - £41,250 £33,500
25th Percentile - £45,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +68.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £74,000 - £81,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% - +5.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 764 1,311 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 75.20% 75.96% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 322 921 426
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £48,013 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +1.08% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £69,750 £71,915 £89,375
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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
Northwich - 7 £60,000 -
Chester +16 3 - - 3
Knutsford +11 3 £75,000 - 1
Warrington +6 3 - - 6
Crewe +3 3 - -
Ellesmere Port 0 3 - -
Wilmslow -1 3 - -
Widnes - 3 - -
Macclesfield - 3 - -
Runcorn - 3 - - 1
Sandbach - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - -
Winsford +11 1 - -
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 22 (34.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (88.89%) AWS
2 55 (87.30%) Azure
3 21 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (6.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (88.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (88.89%) Bitbucket
1 56 (88.89%) Cucumber
1 56 (88.89%) GitLab
1 56 (88.89%) JIRA
1 56 (88.89%) Maven
1 56 (88.89%) Selenium
1 56 (88.89%) SonarQube
1 56 (88.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) JUnit
2 1 (1.59%) Mockito
General
1 56 (88.89%) Finance
2 55 (87.30%) Banking
2 55 (87.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (53.97%) Corporate Banking
3 34 (53.97%) Investment Banking
3 34 (53.97%) Retail
4 4 (6.35%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 4 (6.35%) Developer
2 4 (6.35%) Senior
3 3 (4.76%) Lead
3 3 (4.76%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
3 3 (4.76%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
4 2 (3.17%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Java Developer
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (88.89%) CSS
1 56 (88.89%) HTML
1 56 (88.89%) JPA
1 56 (88.89%) React
1 56 (88.89%) Redux
1 56 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 55 (87.30%) Kafka
2 55 (87.30%) Spring
3 35 (55.56%) Jest
4 34 (53.97%) CSS3
4 34 (53.97%) HTML5
4 34 (53.97%) REST
4 34 (53.97%) RESTful
4 34 (53.97%) Sass
5 22 (34.92%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (87.30%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (87.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.17%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (3.17%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.17%) SCADA
3 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (88.89%) Agile
1 56 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 56 (88.89%) DevOps
1 56 (88.89%) Microservices
1 56 (88.89%) Software Engineering
2 55 (87.30%) Containerisation
2 55 (87.30%) Front End Development
2 55 (87.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 55 (87.30%) Performance Optimisation
2 55 (87.30%) SDLC
3 38 (60.32%) Mentoring
4 34 (53.97%) Migration
4 34 (53.97%) Responsive Web Design
4 34 (53.97%) Strategic Thinking
4 34 (53.97%) User Experience
5 22 (34.92%) TDD
6 21 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 21 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.35%) Process Improvement
7 4 (6.35%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 57 (90.48%) Java
2 56 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 56 (88.89%) SQL
3 34 (53.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (87.30%) QA
2 34 (53.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 55 (87.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (87.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 55 (87.30%) Solace
2 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.59%) Veracode