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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 52 66
Rank change year-on-year -36 +14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 35 32 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.31% 3.45% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 3.85% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 50
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,173 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +4.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,000 £93,778 £95,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £69,308 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.21% +7.14% -12.50%

All Process & 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 1,904 832 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 71.04% 89.75% 80.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 563 1,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,223 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +9.09% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 16 July 2026.

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 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) Serverless
4 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (17.14%) GitHub
6 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.71%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.86%) Apigee
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
2 3 (8.57%) Spark SQL
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) GitLab
2 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.00%) Git
4 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
4 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) SonarQube
5 3 (8.57%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.86%) Gatling
6 1 (2.86%) JMeter
6 1 (2.86%) Maven
6 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 15 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Senior
2 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Lead
4 6 (17.14%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Test Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Java Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
8 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) React
2 6 (17.14%) REST
2 6 (17.14%) Vue
3 4 (11.43%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.57%) Flask
4 3 (8.57%) Flutter
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
4 3 (8.57%) JSON
4 3 (8.57%) OAuth
4 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
4 3 (8.57%) OpenID
4 3 (8.57%) Playwright
4 3 (8.57%) PySpark
4 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.57%) RESTful
4 3 (8.57%) YAML
5 1 (2.86%) Jest
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) NHS
2 3 (8.57%) PKI
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Unix
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 29 (82.86%) Agile
3 20 (57.14%) DevOps
4 17 (48.57%) Mentoring
5 12 (34.29%) Coaching
5 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (28.57%) Microservices
8 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
9 8 (22.86%) Front End Development
9 8 (22.86%) Scrum
10 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (17.14%) Event-Driven
11 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 5 (14.29%) TDD
13 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) Java
3 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 9 (25.71%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Groovy
5 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) Bash
6 3 (8.57%) C#
6 3 (8.57%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) Perl
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Argo
3 3 (8.57%) Packer
4 1 (2.86%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
1 3 (8.57%) Databricks
1 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 2 (5.71%) Pega
3 1 (2.86%) SAP