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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 56
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 53 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.44% 3.06% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 3.92% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19 39 49
10th Percentile £46,950 £46,000 -
25th Percentile £47,231 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -23.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £82,751 £62,245 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,756 £78,750 £87,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.16% -17.50% +9.09%

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 772 1,353 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 85.78% 78.03% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 519 883 1,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,993 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 7 (31.82%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Apigee
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) mabl
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.64%) MySQL
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.64%) Postman
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) Appium
4 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Software Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) React
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Android SDK
4 1 (4.55%) AWS SAM
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.55%) Playwright
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Microservices
4 6 (27.27%) TDD
5 5 (22.73%) BDD
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
7 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (13.64%) Data Science
7 3 (13.64%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) Go
5 3 (13.64%) Scala
6 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.55%) PHP
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Palantir
3 1 (4.55%) Google