Test Automation Jobs in Leicestershire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 83 24
Rank change year-on-year +26 -59 +27
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 10 19 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.39% 1.72% 9.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.95% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 20
10th Percentile £32,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -41.60% +72.81%
75th Percentile £43,125 £49,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £44,250 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 665 973 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 92.36% 88.13% 97.74%
Number of salaries quoted 172 541 253
10th Percentile £26,075 £26,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,980
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £44,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.16% -11.90% +5.26%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Leicestershire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lutterworth -19 3 £36,250 -
Market Harborough +6 2 £45,000 - 3
Leicester +39 1 - - 19
Wigston +5 1 - -
Hinckley -28 1 - -
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 6 (60.00%) Maven
2 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) Xcode
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) TestComplete
General
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Android Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Android Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) iOS Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
1 6 (60.00%) JPA
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) React
1 6 (60.00%) Redux
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (60.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (60.00%) SDLC
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (20.00%) Swift
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Solace
2 2 (20.00%) Apple