Test Automation Jobs in County Antrim

Automated Testing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 10 11 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 5.10% 1.65% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 1.87% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £47,750 £44,475 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,188 £68,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £68,750 - £73,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 587 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 94.90% 88.14% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 43 279 416
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,375 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,166 £87,500 £72,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 £54,408 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.82% +11.11%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in County Antrim

Test Automation
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in County Antrim

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in County Antrim over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in County Antrim

Test Automation
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Belfast +35 10 £55,000 -12.00% 69
Test Automation
Northern Ireland

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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
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 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 5 (50.00%) Maven
2 5 (50.00%) Mockito
2 5 (50.00%) Postman
2 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (30.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
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
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
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 2 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) BDD
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 5 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 5 (50.00%) MVC
3 5 (50.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) OOP
3 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 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