Test Automation Jobs in Cheshire

Automated Testing
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 31 40 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.01% 4.36% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 4.61% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 24 7 13
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,150 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,438 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +62.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,375 £57,500
90th Percentile - £78,600 £73,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% +18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,229 868 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 79.50% 94.55% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 930 459 516
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £34,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,782 £90,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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
Warrington -16 17 £62,500 - 6
Wilmslow - 5 £47,500 -
Winsford - 2 £41,250 -
Chester -1 1 £32,500 - 5
Knutsford - 1 - - 2
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 4 (12.90%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECR
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
2 6 (19.35%) IBM Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) OCI
2 6 (19.35%) Route 53
3 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) TeamCity
2 5 (16.13%) Cucumber
2 5 (16.13%) Selenium
3 4 (12.90%) Git
3 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
4 3 (9.68%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) Postman
5 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.23%) Appium
6 1 (3.23%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) TestCafe
6 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Senior
1 10 (32.26%) Tester
2 6 (19.35%) Automation Tester
2 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (19.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# Software Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) QA Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) QA Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
1 6 (19.35%) Gherkin
2 4 (12.90%) CSS
2 4 (12.90%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) React
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.23%) EDI
3 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Blockchain
1 6 (19.35%) e-Learning
1 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Operational Technology
2 4 (12.90%) SCADA
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 11 (35.48%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) Test Strategy
4 8 (25.81%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (25.81%) Test Management
4 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
5 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (19.35%) Coaching
6 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 6 (19.35%) Observability
6 6 (19.35%) Secrets Management
7 5 (16.13%) API Development
7 5 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) JavaScript
2 11 (35.48%) C#
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
1 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Dynatrace
1 6 (19.35%) IBM
1 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.90%) Facebook
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft