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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 -22
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 31 30 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.71% 3.79% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.94% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 25 17 51
10th Percentile £47,000 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £47,231 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% -24.39% +13.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £98,474 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,000 £74,870 £65,465
% change year-on-year -17.19% +14.37% +19.03%

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 1,373 761 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 75.65% 96.21% 87.96%
Number of salaries quoted 954 501 1,299
10th Percentile £28,325 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,367 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,514
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -1.85% -2.52%

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 15 March 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) GitHub
2 8 (25.81%) Serverless
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (9.68%) SaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Datadog
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
1 6 (19.35%) MySQL
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Tableau
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) GitLab
1 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
1 4 (12.90%) JMeter
1 4 (12.90%) Selenium
2 3 (9.68%) LoadRunner
2 3 (9.68%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Gatling
3 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.23%) Snyk
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Games
4 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Lead
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Senior
3 8 (25.81%) Python Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Leader
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Junior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) React
2 8 (25.81%) Vue
3 6 (19.35%) Django
3 6 (19.35%) FastAPI
3 6 (19.35%) Flask
4 5 (16.13%) CSS
4 5 (16.13%) HTML
5 4 (12.90%) Kafka
5 4 (12.90%) RESTful
6 3 (9.68%) Flutter
6 3 (9.68%) Middleware
7 1 (3.23%) .NET
7 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.23%) Playwright
7 1 (3.23%) PySpark
7 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.23%) Spring
7 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.45%) NHS
4 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Hackathon
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Mentoring
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (25.81%) API Testing
6 7 (22.58%) Coaching
6 7 (22.58%) Front End Development
6 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
6 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) AI
7 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (19.35%) Open Source
7 6 (19.35%) Software Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
8 5 (16.13%) Microservices
8 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 15 (48.39%) SQL
3 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 8 (25.81%) Java
5 6 (19.35%) C#
6 5 (16.13%) Scala
7 3 (9.68%) Go
8 1 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) HP Fortify
3 2 (6.45%) Control-M
4 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Databricks
3 4 (12.90%) Palantir
4 3 (9.68%) IBM
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
6 1 (3.23%) Qualys