Test Automation Jobs in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 68 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 -18
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 30 68 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.90% 2.97% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.47% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 22 53 65
10th Percentile £47,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,058 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -19.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £81,438 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £100,000 £92,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £59,769 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.72% -10.83% +14.29%

All Process and 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 725 1,959 2,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 94.16% 85.55% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 477 1,398 1,645
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £34,734
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Leeds

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) Confluence
2 5 (16.67%) SAS
3 4 (13.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) GCP
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Apigee
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.33%) mabl
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (23.33%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.67%) JDeveloper
4 2 (6.67%) JUnit
4 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
4 2 (6.67%) SoapUI
4 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 16 (53.33%) Banking
3 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Management Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) RESTful
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) Spring
2 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.67%) Middleware
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Android SDK
4 1 (3.33%) Dagger
4 1 (3.33%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) pytest
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) Redux
4 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (16.67%) Credit Risk
3 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 5 (16.67%) Market Risk
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) DevOps
2 18 (60.00%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (30.00%) Analytics
4 9 (30.00%) BDD
4 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (30.00%) Data Science
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
5 7 (23.33%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
5 7 (23.33%) Open Source
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Scrum
6 6 (20.00%) Agile Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (20.00%) Defect Management
7 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.67%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) R
5 4 (13.33%) Scala
6 3 (10.00%) Go
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Basel II
1 5 (16.67%) Basel III
1 5 (16.67%) Dodd-Frank
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
1 5 (16.67%) IFRS
1 5 (16.67%) IFRS 9
1 5 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Palantir
3 1 (3.33%) Google