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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 65 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 57 15 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.84% 1.58% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.81% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 33 12 34
10th Percentile £40,889 £47,125 £45,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,188 £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 £73,375 £60,741
90th Percentile £87,268 £86,500 £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 2,259 829 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 72.85% 87.26% 78.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 534 741
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,777 £45,000 £44,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,700
Median % change year-on-year - +5.82% -1.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,884 £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 8 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 (8.77%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.28%) Serverless
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.02%) GCP
8 3 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Metadata
1 5 (8.77%) Spark SQL
2 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) GitLab
2 9 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.28%) Git
4 6 (10.53%) JIRA
5 5 (8.77%) JMeter
5 5 (8.77%) Postman
6 1 (1.75%) Appium
6 1 (1.75%) Maven
6 1 (1.75%) Selenium
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Senior
2 15 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Test Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Tester
5 7 (12.28%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (12.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Palantir Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Automation Tester
8 4 (7.02%) Test Automation Specialist
8 4 (7.02%) Test Specialist
9 3 (5.26%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead
9 3 (5.26%) QA Tester
9 3 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Tester
9 3 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.56%) Playwright
2 9 (15.79%) Terraform
3 6 (10.53%) Gherkin
3 6 (10.53%) RESTful
4 5 (8.77%) PySpark
4 5 (8.77%) REST
5 4 (7.02%) .NET
5 4 (7.02%) Node.js
6 3 (5.26%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.26%) Entity Framework
6 3 (5.26%) Kafka
7 2 (3.51%) React
7 2 (3.51%) Spring
7 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.75%) CSS
8 1 (1.75%) HTML
8 1 (1.75%) OAuth
8 1 (1.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
1 7 (12.28%) Unix
2 6 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 30 (52.63%) Agile
3 24 (42.11%) DevOps
4 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.56%) Observability
5 14 (24.56%) Scrum
6 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 11 (19.30%) Coaching
7 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (17.54%) SDLC
8 10 (17.54%) Validation
9 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
9 9 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (12.28%) Defect Management
11 7 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) Python
1 14 (24.56%) SQL
2 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
2 11 (19.30%) TypeScript
3 9 (15.79%) Java
4 8 (14.04%) C#
5 5 (8.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.51%) Scala
7 1 (1.75%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) Groovy
7 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.75%) PHP
7 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.07%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) GRC
4 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Ansible
1 3 (5.26%) Argo
1 3 (5.26%) Grafana
1 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.75%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Databricks
2 5 (8.77%) Foundry
2 5 (8.77%) Palantir
3 2 (3.51%) Pega
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) SAP