QA Automation Jobs in Manchester

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - 208
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.039% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% - 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £39,500
25th Percentile £58,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £45,000
75th Percentile £66,250 - £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,250
% change year-on-year - -4.21% +8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

QA 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 3,827 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 90.84% 82.46% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,464 2,276
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,983 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,850 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,388 £84,028
North West median annual salary £50,055 £52,084 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.90% -5.30% +4.76%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Manchester

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Manchester.

Salary trend for QA Automation in Manchester

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA