Test Automation Jobs in Manchester

Automated Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 79 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 -41 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 94 158 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.28% 3.06% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 3.54% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 56 84 119
10th Percentile £41,438 £33,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £56,482 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -1.77% +8.26%
75th Percentile £95,632 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,001 £72,347 £77,543
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,092 4,461 4,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.18% 86.47% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 3,404 2,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,604 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Manchester

Test Automation
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 8 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
Altrincham +7 7 £72,500 - 10
Bolton -17 3 £47,500 - 5
Salford +11 2 - - 1
Stockport +3 2 - - 3
Wigan - 2 - - 1
Oldham - 2 - -
Sale - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 4
Test Automation
North West

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (12.77%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Moodle
4 1 (1.06%) Totara
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.13%) AWS
2 38 (40.43%) Azure
3 37 (39.36%) GCP
4 10 (10.64%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (8.51%) Serverless
6 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (3.19%) Apigee
7 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.19%) SaaS
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.06%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub
9 1 (1.06%) npm
9 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.21%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.89%) MySQL
3 10 (10.64%) Cloud Spanner
4 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.32%) Big Data
6 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (31.91%) Selenium
2 27 (28.72%) JIRA
3 21 (22.34%) Git
3 21 (22.34%) Maven
3 21 (22.34%) SonarQube
3 21 (22.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 20 (21.28%) Bitbucket
4 20 (21.28%) Cucumber
5 18 (19.15%) GitLab
6 12 (12.77%) Postman
7 7 (7.45%) Jenkins
8 6 (6.38%) JMeter
8 6 (6.38%) LoadRunner
9 5 (5.32%) Appium
10 4 (4.26%) Fiddler
11 3 (3.19%) JUnit
11 3 (3.19%) TestRail
12 2 (2.13%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (70.21%) Finance
2 39 (41.49%) Banking
3 18 (19.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
5 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (12.77%) Games
7 10 (10.64%) Retail
8 9 (9.57%) Corporate Banking
8 9 (9.57%) Investment Banking
9 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
9 7 (7.45%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (4.26%) Cantonese Language
11 3 (3.19%) Law
11 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (2.13%) Front Office
12 2 (2.13%) Legal
12 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (1.06%) Electronics
13 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (41.49%) Software Engineer
2 31 (32.98%) Senior
3 15 (15.96%) Developer
4 13 (13.83%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Lead
5 11 (11.70%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) PHP Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Tester
7 6 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (4.26%) QA Tester
8 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.19%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (46.81%) React
2 38 (40.43%) Spring Boot
3 30 (31.91%) CSS
3 30 (31.91%) HTML
4 28 (29.79%) Spring
5 25 (26.60%) RESTful
6 24 (25.53%) Kafka
7 18 (19.15%) JPA
7 18 (19.15%) Redux
8 17 (18.09%) Node.js
9 12 (12.77%) Hibernate
9 12 (12.77%) REST
10 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
10 11 (11.70%) CSS3
10 11 (11.70%) HTML5
11 10 (10.64%) Jest
12 9 (9.57%) Sass
13 8 (8.51%) Playwright
14 6 (6.38%) jQuery
14 6 (6.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Enterprise Software
1 21 (22.34%) Product Ownership
2 13 (13.83%) Algorithms
3 12 (12.77%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.13%) Derivative
6 2 (2.13%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.13%) Equities
6 2 (2.13%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.13%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.13%) Replication
6 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Online Games
7 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.19%) Agile
2 45 (47.87%) Software Engineering
3 41 (43.62%) CI/CD
4 33 (35.11%) DevOps
5 31 (32.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (31.91%) Mentoring
7 29 (30.85%) TDD
8 28 (29.79%) Microservices
9 27 (28.72%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (28.72%) SDLC
10 24 (25.53%) Front End Development
10 24 (25.53%) User Experience
11 23 (24.47%) Code Quality
12 20 (21.28%) Containerisation
12 20 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (20.21%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (13.83%) Coaching
15 12 (12.77%) Clean Code
16 11 (11.70%) Artificial Intelligence
16 11 (11.70%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 56 (59.57%) JavaScript
2 52 (55.32%) Java
3 33 (35.11%) SQL
4 31 (32.98%) TypeScript
5 21 (22.34%) Python
6 11 (11.70%) C#
7 10 (10.64%) PHP
8 5 (5.32%) Go
9 3 (3.19%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) C++
10 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.17%) QA
2 13 (13.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (41.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.70%) Terraform
3 3 (3.19%) Istio
4 2 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Solace
2 10 (10.64%) Google
3 6 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.19%) Twitter
5 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Siebel