Test Automation Jobs in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 71 50
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 -20
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 32 63 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.28% 2.65% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.25% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 49 60
10th Percentile £47,000 £32,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,173 £48,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £95,000 £95,233
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +14.29%

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 882 1,938 2,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 90.37% 81.53% 97.60%
Number of salaries quoted 567 1,350 1,550
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £33,998
25th Percentile £42,125 £41,250 £42,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,964 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 July 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 7 (21.88%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.50%) SAS
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) GCP
2 11 (34.38%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Apigee
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.13%) mabl
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Cucumber
2 7 (21.88%) JIRA
3 5 (15.63%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) JDeveloper
4 2 (6.25%) JUnit
4 2 (6.25%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) Postman
4 2 (6.25%) SoapUI
4 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.13%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 17 (53.13%) Finance
2 15 (46.88%) Banking
3 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Management Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) BPM Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) RESTful
2 4 (12.50%) CSS
2 4 (12.50%) HTML
3 3 (9.38%) Middleware
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle ADF
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
3 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) Android SDK
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
5 1 (3.13%) Dagger
5 1 (3.13%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) pytest
5 1 (3.13%) Redux
5 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Market Risk
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) DevOps
2 19 (59.38%) Agile
3 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 9 (28.13%) BDD
6 8 (25.00%) Analytics
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (25.00%) Data Science
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Agile Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (18.75%) Defect Management
8 6 (18.75%) Open Source
8 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) TDD
9 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Java
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) R
3 4 (12.50%) Scala
4 3 (9.38%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Basel II
1 4 (12.50%) Basel III
1 4 (12.50%) Dodd-Frank
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
1 4 (12.50%) IFRS
1 4 (12.50%) IFRS 9
1 4 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Palantir
3 1 (3.13%) Google