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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 55 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 38 21 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.24% 2.29% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.66% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 39
10th Percentile £51,644 £46,925 £46,000
25th Percentile £63,626 £47,231 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +16.16% -23.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,438 £62,245
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,383 £78,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,905 £57,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +23.31% +16.16% -17.50%

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 2,194 788 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 71.63% 86.03% 77.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,705 537 897
10th Percentile £31,700 £30,000 £32,800
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,978
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 10 September 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) Serverless
4 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.89%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.42%) Git
4 5 (13.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (10.53%) JIRA
5 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
6 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.26%) Selenium
8 1 (2.63%) Gatling
8 1 (2.63%) JMeter
8 1 (2.63%) Maven
8 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (28.95%) Public Sector
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Senior
2 11 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Lead
5 5 (13.16%) Test Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Test Automation Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Test Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Python Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Databricks Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Playwright
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) Node.js
3 4 (10.53%) OAuth
3 4 (10.53%) OAuth2
3 4 (10.53%) OpenID
3 4 (10.53%) React
3 4 (10.53%) Vue
4 3 (7.89%) CSS
4 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (7.89%) Flask
4 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 3 (7.89%) JSON
4 3 (7.89%) PySpark
4 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (7.89%) YAML
5 2 (5.26%) Spring
5 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.63%) Doctrine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
1 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (7.89%) PKI
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Unix
2 6 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 26 (68.42%) Agile
3 20 (52.63%) DevOps
4 16 (42.11%) Mentoring
5 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (26.32%) Coaching
6 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (23.68%) Microservices
8 8 (21.05%) Scrum
9 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.79%) Front End Development
11 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
11 5 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
12 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (10.53%) Design Patterns
12 4 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) Java
3 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 9 (23.68%) SQL
5 6 (15.79%) C#
6 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
7 4 (10.53%) Groovy
8 2 (5.26%) Bash
8 2 (5.26%) Scala
9 1 (2.63%) Go
9 1 (2.63%) Perl
9 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Argo
2 3 (7.89%) Packer
3 1 (2.63%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
2 3 (7.89%) IBM
3 2 (5.26%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) SAP