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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 45 63
Rank change year-on-year -39 +18 -27
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 39 35 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.64% 4.56% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 4.85% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 32 23 50
10th Percentile £47,129 £47,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £47,231 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,693 £49,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -7.48% -10.83%
75th Percentile £84,063 £88,264 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £97,534 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,693 £74,870 £54,250
% change year-on-year -8.25% +38.01% -7.66%

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 1,723 722 1,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 72.33% 94.01% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 498 1,405
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,410 £38,750 £41,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £79,336 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%

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 30 April 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 (12.82%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) Serverless
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) SaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) Datadog
8 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) MySQL
3 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) GitLab
2 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) Gatling
6 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (35.90%) Public Sector
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Games
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Developer
3 11 (28.21%) Lead
4 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Python Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Technical Leader
8 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) QA Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) QA Leader
8 3 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) React
2 8 (20.51%) Vue
3 5 (12.82%) CSS
3 5 (12.82%) Flask
3 5 (12.82%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) Flutter
4 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.69%) JSON
5 3 (7.69%) Node.js
5 3 (7.69%) OAuth
5 3 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 3 (7.69%) OpenID
5 3 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) YAML
6 2 (5.13%) Django
6 2 (5.13%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.13%) Kafka
6 2 (5.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.82%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) NHS
3 3 (7.69%) PKI
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 24 (61.54%) Agile
3 19 (48.72%) Mentoring
4 15 (38.46%) DevOps
5 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
8 9 (23.08%) Coaching
8 9 (23.08%) Machine Learning
9 8 (20.51%) API Testing
9 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (20.51%) Front End Development
10 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
11 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
11 6 (15.38%) Open Source
12 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
12 5 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (12.82%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 14 (35.90%) Java
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 7 (17.95%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) Scala
7 4 (10.26%) Go
8 3 (7.69%) Groovy
9 2 (5.13%) Bash
10 1 (2.56%) Perl
10 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Argo
3 3 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (2.56%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Databricks
2 4 (10.26%) IBM
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Palantir
3 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) SAP