Test Automation Jobs in Halifax

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Halifax 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 -43
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 1 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Halifax 14.81% 1.14% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 1.16% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 8
10th Percentile £55,677 - -
25th Percentile £72,899 £68,718 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,957 £70,576 £47,067
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% +49.95% -30.27%
75th Percentile £97,528 £72,433 £78,107
90th Percentile - - £79,892
West Yorkshire median annual salary £74,870 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +39.94% -6.96% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 86 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Halifax 100.00% 97.73% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 74 84 288
10th Percentile £25,000 £39,389 £38,999
25th Percentile £25,313 £50,172 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,179 £70,576 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% +15.36% +12.26%
75th Percentile £96,590 £84,056 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,064 £89,852
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Halifax

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Halifax

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Halifax.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Halifax

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Halifax

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Halifax over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Halifax

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (91.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) IBM UrbanCode
2 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 12 (100.00%) Banking
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Senior
2 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (58.33%) JWT
2 7 (58.33%) OAuth
2 7 (58.33%) OAuth2
2 7 (58.33%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Django
3 3 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (25.00%) Flask
3 3 (25.00%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Microservices
3 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 8 (66.67%) Scrum
4 8 (66.67%) TDD
5 7 (58.33%) Agile
5 7 (58.33%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
6 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
6 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
6 5 (41.67%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Batch Management
8 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
8 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
8 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
8 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) JCL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) OCP
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Istio
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Argo
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 3 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace