Test Automation Job Trends in Leicester

Automated Testing
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 5 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.51% 2.67% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 2.82% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 15
10th Percentile - £32,550 £32,725
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £50,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -22.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,250 £53,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £53,850 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £37,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +46.67% -42.31% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 177 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 83.04% 94.65% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 209 95 216
10th Percentile £29,550 £26,400 £27,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,375 £38,690
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,300 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Leicester

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Leicester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Leicester

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) dbt
3 2 (16.67%) npm
3 2 (16.67%) NuGet
3 2 (16.67%) SonarCloud
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
1 5 (41.67%) Subversion
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (8.33%) Appium
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Electronics
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Test Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Test Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) QA Leader
4 2 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Flask
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 5 (41.67%) Issue Tracking
5 5 (41.67%) Regression Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
7 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
7 2 (16.67%) ETL
7 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Delphi
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle