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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 64 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 58 18 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.88% 1.87% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.15% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 33 14 34
10th Percentile £40,889 £47,375 £45,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,688 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +16.16% -23.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,125 £60,741
90th Percentile £87,268 £86,375 £71,991
West Yorkshire median annual salary £69,305 £56,250 £49,500
% change year-on-year +23.21% +13.64% -23.85%

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 2,241 839 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 72.83% 87.21% 78.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 552 713
10th Percentile £32,050 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,241 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 11 October 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 5 (8.62%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 20 (34.48%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.07%) GitHub
4 7 (12.07%) Serverless
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.90%) GCP
8 3 (5.17%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.17%) Kong
8 3 (5.17%) Route 53
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Metadata
1 5 (8.62%) Spark SQL
2 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) GitLab
2 9 (15.52%) Cypress.io
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.07%) Git
4 6 (10.34%) JIRA
5 5 (8.62%) JMeter
5 5 (8.62%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) Appium
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 17 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Senior
2 14 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Test Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Tester
4 8 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Automation Tester
7 5 (8.62%) Palantir Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Test Automation Specialist
8 4 (6.90%) Test Specialist
9 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Lead
9 3 (5.17%) QA Tester
9 3 (5.17%) Senior QA Tester
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Tester
9 3 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Playwright
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) RESTful
4 6 (10.34%) Gherkin
5 5 (8.62%) .NET
5 5 (8.62%) PySpark
5 5 (8.62%) REST
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.17%) Kafka
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) React
7 2 (3.45%) Spring
7 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.72%) CSS
8 1 (1.72%) HTML
8 1 (1.72%) OAuth
8 1 (1.72%) OpenID
8 1 (1.72%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
1 6 (10.34%) Unix
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 30 (51.72%) Agile
3 24 (41.38%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.14%) Observability
6 13 (22.41%) Scrum
7 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
9 10 (17.24%) Coaching
9 10 (17.24%) SDLC
9 10 (17.24%) Validation
10 9 (15.52%) Data Integration
10 9 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (12.07%) Acceptance Criteria
12 7 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (12.07%) Defect Management
12 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (12.07%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 14 (24.14%) Python
3 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 11 (18.97%) TypeScript
4 9 (15.52%) C#
5 8 (13.79%) Java
6 5 (8.62%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Ansible
1 3 (5.17%) Grafana
1 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (1.72%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Foundry
2 5 (8.62%) Palantir
3 2 (3.45%) Pega
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) SAP