Test Automation Jobs in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -97 +9 +13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 63 223 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.46% 7.76% 6.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 8.07% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 50 72 147
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,875 £38,250 £35,187
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,250 £80,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,502 2,762 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.95% 96.17% 91.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,488 1,325 2,088
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,223 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,000 £65,000 £61,140
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Leicestershire -57 21 £36,500 -36.52% 16
Nottinghamshire -47 19 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Lincolnshire -3 13 £47,500 +35.71% 2
Derbyshire -33 7 £60,000 +41.18% 7
Northamptonshire -25 3 £72,500 +70.59% 4
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) AWS
3 8 (12.70%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (12.70%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (12.70%) Amazon S3
3 8 (12.70%) IBM Cloud
3 8 (12.70%) OCI
3 8 (12.70%) Route 53
4 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 3 (4.76%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
1 2 (3.17%) Internet
1 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Team Foundation Server
2 9 (14.29%) JMeter
2 9 (14.29%) Selenium
3 8 (12.70%) JIRA
3 8 (12.70%) SoapUI
4 6 (9.52%) Cucumber
4 6 (9.52%) SpecFlow
4 6 (9.52%) TestRail
5 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
5 5 (7.94%) Git
5 5 (7.94%) Postman
6 3 (4.76%) Appium
6 3 (4.76%) Gatling
6 3 (4.76%) JBehave
6 3 (4.76%) JUnit
7 2 (3.17%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (14.29%) Law
2 8 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Lead
3 11 (17.46%) Test Leader
4 10 (15.87%) QA Leader
5 8 (12.70%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Test Manager
8 5 (7.94%) C# Developer
8 5 (7.94%) QA Manager
8 5 (7.94%) QA Test Manager
8 5 (7.94%) Senior
8 5 (7.94%) Test Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Control Systems Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) PHP Developer
9 4 (6.35%) QA Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Symfony Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 8 (12.70%) SOAP
3 7 (11.11%) .NET
3 7 (11.11%) CSS
3 7 (11.11%) HTML
4 5 (7.94%) React
5 4 (6.35%) Playwright
5 4 (6.35%) Symfony
5 4 (6.35%) Vue
6 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.76%) Swagger
7 2 (3.17%) WinForms
7 2 (3.17%) XHTML
8 1 (1.59%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.59%) Jest
8 1 (1.59%) Next.js
8 1 (1.59%) Node.js
8 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) e-Learning
2 8 (12.70%) Blockchain
2 8 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.35%) FMCG
4 3 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.59%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Android
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) Agile
2 24 (38.10%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Manual Testing
3 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.81%) Mentoring
5 12 (19.05%) Software Testing
6 11 (17.46%) SDLC
7 10 (15.87%) Coaching
8 9 (14.29%) API Testing
9 8 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.70%) Observability
9 8 (12.70%) Secrets Management
9 8 (12.70%) Technology Transformation
10 7 (11.11%) OO
10 7 (11.11%) Performance Testing
11 6 (9.52%) E-Commerce
12 5 (7.94%) MVC
12 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) C#
2 9 (14.29%) Java
2 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.29%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) SQL
4 5 (7.94%) C
5 4 (6.35%) PHP
6 3 (4.76%) C++
6 3 (4.76%) Groovy
6 3 (4.76%) Ruby
6 3 (4.76%) Rust
7 2 (3.17%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) ISEB
1 8 (12.70%) ISTQB
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (41.27%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) MISRA
2 3 (4.76%) MISRA C
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (4.76%) Firmware
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 9 (14.29%) Terraform
2 8 (12.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Dynatrace
2 8 (12.70%) IBM
2 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.35%) Siemens