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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 -21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 26 34 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.81% 3.36% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.74% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 50
10th Percentile £44,950 £45,950 £37,225
25th Percentile £48,875 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £49,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% -29.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £98,474 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% -10.71% +27.27%

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 1,129 910 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 78.68% 89.83% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 750 512 1,088
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,074 £41,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -1.82% -

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 January 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 (19.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
3 6 (23.08%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Datadog
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
1 5 (19.23%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Selenium
2 3 (11.54%) JMeter
2 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
2 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Snyk
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Games
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
3 6 (23.08%) Python Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (11.54%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) QA Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) QA Leader
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Junior
7 2 (7.69%) Junior Data Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) React
2 6 (23.08%) Django
2 6 (23.08%) FastAPI
2 6 (23.08%) Flask
2 6 (23.08%) Vue
3 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 5 (19.23%) HTML
4 4 (15.38%) Kafka
5 3 (11.54%) Middleware
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.85%) Flutter
7 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.85%) Playwright
7 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.85%) Spring
7 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
1 5 (19.23%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) API Testing
6 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
7 6 (23.08%) Software Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
8 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (19.23%) Data Science
8 5 (19.23%) Front End Development
8 5 (19.23%) Mathematics
8 5 (19.23%) OOP
8 5 (19.23%) Open Source
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) C#
4 6 (23.08%) Scala
5 3 (11.54%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) HP Fortify
3 2 (7.69%) Control-M
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 5 (19.23%) Palantir
3 3 (11.54%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys