Test Automation Jobs in Leeds

Automated Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 42 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 -15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 70 177 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.90% 6.28% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 6.41% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 56 66 232
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £69,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -10.83% +19.59% +0.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 2,760 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 83.37% 97.87% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 1,614 2,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,922
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,750 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £69,789
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 June 2024.

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 9 (12.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 43 (61.43%) Azure
2 32 (45.71%) AWS
3 26 (37.14%) GCP
4 12 (17.14%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (12.86%) GitHub
5 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) Slack
7 6 (8.57%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (8.57%) BrowserStack
8 4 (5.71%) SaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.43%) AWS CodeStar
10 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Internet
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.43%) Data Lake
2 8 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.29%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (35.71%) Selenium
2 17 (24.29%) CircleCI
3 16 (22.86%) Git
4 11 (15.71%) JIRA
4 11 (15.71%) JMeter
5 10 (14.29%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
7 8 (11.43%) GitLab
7 8 (11.43%) JUnit
7 8 (11.43%) Postman
8 7 (10.00%) Appium
9 5 (7.14%) Cypress.io
9 5 (7.14%) HP UFT
9 5 (7.14%) LoadRunner
9 5 (7.14%) MSTest
9 5 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (5.71%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (4.29%) SpecFlow
12 2 (2.86%) IntelliJ
12 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 14 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.43%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 4 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.43%) Games
8 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Lead
1 17 (24.29%) Senior
2 10 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (12.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) QA Leader
5 6 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
5 6 (8.57%) Software Engineering Manager
5 6 (8.57%) Software Manager
6 5 (7.14%) Administrator
6 5 (7.14%) Pensions Administrator
6 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Developer
7 4 (5.71%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) RESTful
2 9 (12.86%) .NET
3 6 (8.57%) Web Services
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.71%) Gherkin
4 4 (5.71%) HTML
4 4 (5.71%) Node.js
4 4 (5.71%) XML
4 4 (5.71%) XSLT
5 3 (4.29%) Playwright
6 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.86%) Blazor
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) SignalR
7 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Public Cloud
2 8 (11.43%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.43%) NHS
3 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (58.57%) Agile
2 40 (57.14%) DevOps
3 32 (45.71%) CI/CD
4 31 (44.29%) Software Testing
5 23 (32.86%) Mentoring
6 22 (31.43%) Coaching
7 21 (30.00%) BDD
8 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
9 14 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 12 (17.14%) Continuous Deployment
10 12 (17.14%) Open Source
11 11 (15.71%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (15.71%) Microservices
11 11 (15.71%) Performance Testing
11 11 (15.71%) Test Scripting
12 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (12.86%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (12.86%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) SQL
2 17 (24.29%) C#
3 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.43%) Java
5 4 (5.71%) Groovy
6 3 (4.29%) Python
6 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.43%) Ruby
7 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
1 7 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) CIPD
3 4 (5.71%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) ISEB
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (27.14%) QA
2 8 (11.43%) GDPR
2 8 (11.43%) PSD2
3 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) Google
3 8 (11.43%) Duck Creek
4 4 (5.71%) VMware
5 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.86%) Brio
6 2 (2.86%) BT
7 1 (1.43%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.43%) Cadence
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk