Test Automation Jobs in Leicester

Automated Testing
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 67 25
Rank change year-on-year +37 -42 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 3 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 1.31% 0.47% 11.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.55% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £67,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £53,000 £36,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +45.21% -39.17% +73.91%

All Process and 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 130 549 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 84.97% 86.19% 99.54%
Number of salaries quoted 80 293 172
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £30,550
25th Percentile £38,938 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,563 £62,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +9.64%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leicester

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leicester

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leicester

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Solace