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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 66 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 43 15 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.38% 1.63% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.90% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 26 13 38
10th Percentile £47,539 £46,800 £45,875
25th Percentile £59,031 £47,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,905 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% +16.16% -23.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,000 £62,998
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,500 £74,019
West Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £57,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +20.54% +16.16% -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 2,269 790 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 72.65% 85.78% 78.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 530 830
10th Percentile £32,350 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,430
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -3.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 24 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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) Serverless
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) GitLab
2 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.93%) Cypress.io
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 7 (16.28%) Git
5 5 (11.63%) JMeter
5 5 (11.63%) Postman
6 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.98%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) Appium
8 1 (2.33%) Maven
8 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 11 (25.58%) Public Sector
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (27.91%) Senior
3 9 (20.93%) Test Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Test Automation Specialist
6 4 (9.30%) Test Specialist
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Tester
8 2 (4.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Databricks Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) Playwright
2 9 (20.93%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) REST
4 6 (13.95%) Gherkin
5 5 (11.63%) RESTful
6 4 (9.30%) Node.js
7 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.98%) JSON
7 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (6.98%) React
7 3 (6.98%) YAML
8 2 (4.65%) CSS
8 2 (4.65%) HTML
8 2 (4.65%) OAuth
8 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.65%) OpenID
8 2 (4.65%) PySpark
8 2 (4.65%) Spring
8 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
2 30 (69.77%) Agile
3 21 (48.84%) DevOps
4 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
4 13 (30.23%) Scrum
5 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (23.26%) Coaching
7 10 (23.26%) SDLC
8 9 (20.93%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (20.93%) Microservices
9 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (16.28%) API Testing
10 7 (16.28%) Defect Management
10 7 (16.28%) Kanban
10 7 (16.28%) Software Testing
11 6 (13.95%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (13.95%) Case Management
11 6 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.91%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) Python
3 11 (25.58%) SQL
4 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) C#
6 4 (9.30%) Groovy
7 3 (6.98%) Bash
8 2 (4.65%) Scala
9 1 (2.33%) Go
9 1 (2.33%) Perl
9 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Ansible
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Argo
2 3 (6.98%) Packer
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
2 3 (6.98%) Databricks
2 3 (6.98%) IBM
3 2 (4.65%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) SAP