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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 80 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 -35 -8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 116 168 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.79% 2.83% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 3.39% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 60 85 101
10th Percentile £47,375 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,622 £72,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +4.55%

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 2,262 4,962 4,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.47% 83.63% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 3,545 2,483
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,315
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,107 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +12 16 £65,000 - 18
Bolton -11 4 £47,500 - 32
Salford +12 3 - - 3
Stockport +5 3 - - 16
Wigan - 3 - - 1
Oldham - 3 - - 2
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 10
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 17 (14.66%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) Apache
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.86%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Moodle
3 1 (0.86%) Totara
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (63.79%) AWS
2 48 (41.38%) Azure
3 38 (32.76%) GCP
4 15 (12.93%) Serverless
5 13 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.62%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (4.31%) GitHub
8 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.45%) SaaS
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.59%) Apigee
9 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.72%) PaaS
10 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.72%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.86%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.86%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Firewall
1 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.21%) MySQL
3 10 (8.62%) Cloud Spanner
3 10 (8.62%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.62%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.31%) Big Data
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (37.07%) Selenium
2 41 (35.34%) JIRA
3 34 (29.31%) Cucumber
4 33 (28.45%) GitLab
5 30 (25.86%) Maven
5 30 (25.86%) SonarQube
5 30 (25.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (25.00%) Bitbucket
7 20 (17.24%) Git
8 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
8 9 (7.76%) Postman
9 8 (6.90%) JMeter
10 6 (5.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (3.45%) Appium
11 4 (3.45%) Fiddler
12 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.59%) JUnit
13 2 (1.72%) MSTest
13 2 (1.72%) NUnit
13 2 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 92 (79.31%) Finance
2 50 (43.10%) Banking
3 27 (23.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (21.55%) Social Skills
5 18 (15.52%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (15.52%) Investment Banking
5 18 (15.52%) Retail
6 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (12.93%) Games
7 8 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.90%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (3.45%) Cantonese Language
9 3 (2.59%) Law
10 2 (1.72%) Front Office
11 1 (0.86%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.86%) Electronics
11 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Software Engineer
2 36 (31.03%) Senior
3 18 (15.52%) Developer
4 15 (12.93%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.21%) Lead
5 13 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (6.03%) Tester
9 6 (5.17%) PHP Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.31%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior PHP Developer
11 4 (3.45%) QA Tester
11 4 (3.45%) Test Manager
11 4 (3.45%) UAT Manager
11 4 (3.45%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (52.59%) React
2 53 (45.69%) Spring Boot
3 43 (37.07%) Spring
4 39 (33.62%) Kafka
5 38 (32.76%) CSS
5 38 (32.76%) HTML
6 33 (28.45%) RESTful
7 27 (23.28%) JPA
7 27 (23.28%) Redux
8 22 (18.97%) CSS3
9 21 (18.10%) Jest
9 21 (18.10%) REST
10 20 (17.24%) HTML5
11 18 (15.52%) Sass
12 17 (14.66%) Node.js
13 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
13 12 (10.34%) Playwright
14 10 (8.62%) AngularJS
15 9 (7.76%) Amazon Corretto
16 5 (4.31%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.86%) Enterprise Software
1 30 (25.86%) Product Ownership
2 13 (11.21%) Algorithms
3 12 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 9 (7.76%) e-Learning
5 7 (6.03%) Wiki
6 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.45%) Derivative
7 4 (3.45%) Equities
7 4 (3.45%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.72%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.72%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.72%) Replication
9 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.86%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Linux
2 3 (2.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (67.24%) Agile
2 64 (55.17%) Software Engineering
3 55 (47.41%) CI/CD
3 55 (47.41%) DevOps
4 47 (40.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (39.66%) User Experience
6 44 (37.93%) Microservices
7 41 (35.34%) TDD
8 40 (34.48%) Mentoring
9 39 (33.62%) Front End Development
10 34 (29.31%) SDLC
11 33 (28.45%) Containerisation
12 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (24.14%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (22.41%) Code Quality
14 26 (22.41%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (17.24%) Clean Code
16 19 (16.38%) Responsive Web Design
17 18 (15.52%) Migration
17 18 (15.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 76 (65.52%) Java
2 65 (56.03%) JavaScript
3 49 (42.24%) TypeScript
4 39 (33.62%) SQL
5 21 (18.10%) Python
6 10 (8.62%) C#
7 8 (6.90%) PHP
8 4 (3.45%) Go
9 3 (2.59%) Scala
10 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (7.76%) Degree
2 7 (6.03%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (37.93%) QA
2 22 (18.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) NIST
3 1 (0.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (50.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.52%) Terraform
3 3 (2.59%) Grafana
3 3 (2.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Solace
2 10 (8.62%) Google
3 5 (4.31%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle
5 3 (2.59%) Twitter
6 2 (1.72%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.72%) IBM
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.86%) Siebel