Test Automation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Automated Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 60 135
Rank change year-on-year -30 +75 -109
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 70 84 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.54% 4.62% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 5.10% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 28 32 48
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £78,650 £64,875 £65,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

All Process & 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 3,250 1,648 3,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.68% 90.60% 79.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 923 2,500
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £56,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

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 9 May 2026. 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 +9 58 £58,750 +56.67% 7
Northamptonshire -23 6 - - 4
Derbyshire -20 3 £52,500 -8.70% 4
Nottinghamshire -30 3 £110,000 +100.00% 6
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 29 (41.43%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Serverless
3 20 (28.57%) Azure
4 13 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (17.14%) Firebase
5 12 (17.14%) GitHub
5 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (17.14%) Stripe
5 12 (17.14%) TestFlight
6 11 (15.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (14.29%) npm
7 10 (14.29%) NuGet
7 10 (14.29%) SonarCloud
8 6 (8.57%) GCP
9 3 (4.29%) SaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.86%) MQTT
1 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.86%) Wireless
1 2 (2.86%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Crashlytics
1 12 (17.14%) XCTest
2 10 (14.29%) Git
3 6 (8.57%) XCUITest
4 5 (7.14%) JIRA
4 5 (7.14%) Subversion
5 3 (4.29%) Storybook
6 2 (2.86%) GDB
6 2 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.86%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.43%) JMeter
7 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Electronics
5 1 (1.43%) Finance
5 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Senior
2 14 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 12 (17.14%) Mobile Engineer
4 11 (15.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Lead
8 6 (8.57%) Graduate
8 6 (8.57%) Graduate Test Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) QA Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior QA Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Systems Test Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) React
2 12 (17.14%) SwiftUI
2 12 (17.14%) UIKit
3 11 (15.71%) AWS CDK
3 11 (15.71%) Next.js
4 10 (14.29%) .NET
4 10 (14.29%) Node.js
4 10 (14.29%) YAML
5 8 (11.43%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
6 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.29%) CSS
7 3 (4.29%) HTML
7 3 (4.29%) HTML5
7 3 (4.29%) RESTful
7 3 (4.29%) Sass
8 2 (2.86%) pytest
8 2 (2.86%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.86%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (28.57%) Mobile App
3 7 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.86%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.86%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.86%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.71%) Apple iOS
2 13 (18.57%) Linux
3 10 (14.29%) Windows
4 6 (8.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 34 (48.57%) Agile
3 31 (44.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (38.57%) Clean Code
5 23 (32.86%) Re-Platforming
6 22 (31.43%) Observability
7 21 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (25.71%) Mentoring
9 17 (24.29%) Code Quality
9 17 (24.29%) DevOps
9 17 (24.29%) Personalization
9 17 (24.29%) User Experience
10 15 (21.43%) Test Strategy
11 13 (18.57%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (17.14%) Community of Practice
12 12 (17.14%) Cross-Platform Development
12 12 (17.14%) Decision-Making
12 12 (17.14%) Microservices
12 12 (17.14%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) TypeScript
2 12 (17.14%) Bash
2 12 (17.14%) C#
2 12 (17.14%) Kotlin
2 12 (17.14%) Swift
3 10 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.00%) Python
6 4 (5.71%) SQL
7 3 (4.29%) Java
8 2 (2.86%) C
8 2 (2.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Degree
1 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Accessibility
1 9 (12.86%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) JTAG
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Amplitude
1 12 (17.14%) Braze
2 10 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle