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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 49 63
Rank change year-on-year -43 +14 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 36 32 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.35% 4.09% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 4.35% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28 24 56
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £47,173 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.99% -5.71% -19.23%
75th Percentile £85,787 £78,813 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,905 £65,900 £53,500
% change year-on-year +7.59% +23.18% -10.83%

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 1,870 735 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 70.27% 93.87% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 475 1,430
10th Percentile £30,400 £26,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
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 4 June 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) AWS
2 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Serverless
3 7 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (19.44%) GitHub
4 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.78%) Apigee
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 3 (8.33%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) GitLab
2 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (19.44%) Git
4 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 4 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 3 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) Gatling
6 1 (2.78%) JMeter
6 1 (2.78%) Maven
6 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Lead
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Python Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Test Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Technical Leader
8 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) React
2 7 (19.44%) Vue
3 6 (16.67%) REST
4 4 (11.11%) CSS
4 4 (11.11%) Flask
4 4 (11.11%) Flutter
4 4 (11.11%) HTML
4 4 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.11%) RESTful
5 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (8.33%) JSON
5 3 (8.33%) OAuth
5 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 3 (8.33%) OpenID
5 3 (8.33%) Playwright
5 3 (8.33%) PySpark
5 3 (8.33%) YAML
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
7 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.33%) NHS
3 3 (8.33%) PKI
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 28 (77.78%) Agile
3 18 (50.00%) DevOps
4 16 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (33.33%) Microservices
7 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
8 8 (22.22%) Coaching
8 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 5 (13.89%) AI
11 5 (13.89%) Scrum
11 5 (13.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 16 (44.44%) Java
3 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) Go
5 4 (11.11%) Groovy
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Perl
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Argo
3 3 (8.33%) Packer
4 1 (2.78%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) AppDynamics
1 3 (8.33%) Databricks
1 3 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP