Test Automation Jobs in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 46 41
Rank change year-on-year -107 -5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 42 149 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 6.02% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 6.30% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 28 71 138
10th Percentile £28,750 £38,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £39,063 £45,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £65,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,510 2,364 3,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.43% 95.52% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,078 1,123 1,946
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,188
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -42 14 £48,500 -25.38% 4
Derbyshire -14 12 £60,000 +23.08% 1
Lincolnshire +3 6 £36,250 - 2
Nottinghamshire -61 6 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Northamptonshire -46 4 £75,000 +33.33% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) OCI
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 7 (16.67%) Route 53
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeStar
5 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.38%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Selenium
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.76%) Android Studio
5 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.76%) JMeter
5 2 (4.76%) Postman
5 2 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.76%) TestRail
6 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.38%) Moq
6 1 (2.38%) MSTest
6 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.38%) TestComplete
6 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (16.67%) Law
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) iGaming
5 1 (2.38%) Publishing
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Control Systems Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) PHP Developer
6 4 (9.52%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Symfony Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Test Manager
8 2 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) React
2 7 (16.67%) HTML
3 5 (11.90%) .NET
3 5 (11.90%) CSS
4 4 (9.52%) Playwright
4 4 (9.52%) Symfony
5 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (7.14%) Web Services
5 3 (7.14%) WinForms
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.76%) HTML5
6 2 (4.76%) Next.js
6 2 (4.76%) Play Framework
6 2 (4.76%) SOAP
6 2 (4.76%) Spring
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.38%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (2.38%) Jest
7 1 (2.38%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) e-Learning
2 7 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 7 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) FMCG
4 3 (7.14%) Client/Server
4 3 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.38%) Online Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) DevOps
3 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
4 8 (19.05%) Coaching
4 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 7 (16.67%) Observability
5 7 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 7 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
6 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
7 5 (11.90%) OO
8 4 (9.52%) API Testing
8 4 (9.52%) OOP
8 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) C#
1 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
2 8 (19.05%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) C
3 6 (14.29%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) Python
4 5 (11.90%) C++
5 4 (9.52%) PHP
6 3 (7.14%) Groovy
6 3 (7.14%) Rust
7 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.38%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.38%) Embedded C++
8 1 (2.38%) Perl
8 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.38%) RPG
8 1 (2.38%) XAML
8 1 (2.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) MISRA
2 3 (7.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) IBM
2 7 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 7 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (11.90%) Siemens
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Black Duck
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.38%) UiPath