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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 127 31
Rank change year-on-year +45 -96 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 82 61 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.05% 1.35% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 1.70% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27 47 68
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £33,525
25th Percentile £39,375 £34,500 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +18.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £65,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 2,480 3,585 2,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.36% 79.38% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 922 2,514 1,246
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,050 £50,498
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -12.77% +6.31%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
Northamptonshire +23 37 £58,000 -20.00% 7
Nottinghamshire +24 16 £57,500 +4.55% 18
Lincolnshire +15 13 £40,000 -15.79% 7
Leicestershire +28 8 £45,000 +23.29% 26
Derbyshire +15 8 £45,500 -24.17% 11
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 34 (41.46%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.00%) AWS
2 40 (48.78%) Azure
3 34 (41.46%) GCP
4 8 (9.76%) SaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Serverless
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.22%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) TCP/IP
1 13 (15.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (47.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (64.63%) Cucumber
2 49 (59.76%) Selenium
3 42 (51.22%) JIRA
4 39 (47.56%) Bitbucket
4 39 (47.56%) GitLab
4 39 (47.56%) Maven
4 39 (47.56%) SonarQube
4 39 (47.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (15.85%) Robot Framework
6 8 (9.76%) Postman
7 1 (1.22%) Appium
7 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.22%) FitNesse
7 1 (1.22%) Git
7 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.22%) JMeter
7 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.22%) Newman
7 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.22%) Xcode
General
1 52 (63.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (47.56%) Banking
2 39 (47.56%) Finance
3 29 (35.37%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.85%) Telecoms
5 7 (8.54%) Law
6 6 (7.32%) Retail
7 5 (6.10%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (6.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Electronics
8 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 45 (54.88%) Software Engineer
2 13 (15.85%) Test Automation Engineer
2 13 (15.85%) Test Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Senior
4 9 (10.98%) Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Lead
5 7 (8.54%) PHP Developer
5 7 (8.54%) PHP Symfony Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Symfony Developer
6 6 (7.32%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) QA Leader
8 3 (3.66%) Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Embedded Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 1 (1.22%) iOS Software Engineer
10 1 (1.22%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (58.54%) React
2 46 (56.10%) CSS
2 46 (56.10%) HTML
3 39 (47.56%) JPA
3 39 (47.56%) Kafka
3 39 (47.56%) Redux
3 39 (47.56%) Spring
3 39 (47.56%) Spring Boot
4 34 (41.46%) Hibernate
5 8 (9.76%) Playwright
6 7 (8.54%) Symfony
7 5 (6.10%) CSS3
7 5 (6.10%) HTML5
7 5 (6.10%) Jest
7 5 (6.10%) REST
7 5 (6.10%) RESTful
7 5 (6.10%) Sass
8 3 (3.66%) .NET
9 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (57.32%) Product Ownership
2 39 (47.56%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (15.85%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Linux
2 13 (15.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.85%) Agile
2 52 (63.41%) DevOps
3 47 (57.32%) Software Engineering
4 46 (56.10%) Front End Development
5 44 (53.66%) CI/CD
6 40 (48.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (48.78%) Microservices
7 39 (47.56%) Containerisation
7 39 (47.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 39 (47.56%) SDLC
8 35 (42.68%) Clean Code
8 35 (42.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (42.68%) TDD
9 27 (32.93%) Mentoring
10 16 (19.51%) System Testing
11 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (17.07%) Test Management
13 13 (15.85%) Coaching
14 8 (9.76%) Manual Testing
14 8 (9.76%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (73.17%) JavaScript
2 45 (54.88%) SQL
3 42 (51.22%) Java
4 18 (21.95%) Python
5 14 (17.07%) C#
6 13 (15.85%) Bash
6 13 (15.85%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.54%) PHP
7 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.88%) C++
9 3 (3.66%) Rust
10 2 (2.44%) C
11 1 (1.22%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Degree
2 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (78.05%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) MISRA
3 1 (1.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 39 (47.56%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Firmware
3 1 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (47.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (47.56%) Solace
2 3 (3.66%) Minitab
3 1 (1.22%) Apple
3 1 (1.22%) Lauterbach
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft