Test Automation Job Trends in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 58 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 42 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.92% 3.14% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.84% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 47
10th Percentile £46,900 £45,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £48,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -29.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £71,991 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.16% -23.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 985 1,094 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 85.95% 81.76% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 683 637 966
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,835
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,159
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +2.11%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) JMeter
2 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) Appium
3 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Games
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 5 (22.73%) Python Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) QA Leader
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Software Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) React
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) Django
2 5 (22.73%) FastAPI
2 5 (22.73%) Flask
2 5 (22.73%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) Vue
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) Middleware
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle ADF
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (4.55%) Playwright
5 1 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hackathon
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) API Testing
5 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (27.27%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Software Architecture
7 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Coaching
8 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
8 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
8 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
8 4 (18.18%) OOP
8 4 (18.18%) Open Source
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 6 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Control-M
2 2 (9.09%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Palantir
3 2 (9.09%) IBM
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys