Test Automation Job Trends in Coventry

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 1.28% 5.74% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 5.85% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £40,750 £40,650
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% +2.50% +9.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,688 £65,000
90th Percentile - £61,375 £65,750
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +12.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 205 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 88.46% 98.09% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 64 113 267
10th Percentile £22,125 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +1.60%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Coventry

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Solace