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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 78 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -42 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 107 159 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.66% 3.03% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 3.52% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 57 86 115
10th Percentile £41,625 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,482 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -1.77% +8.26%
75th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,906 £72,500 £77,715
North West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +12.97%

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 2,188 4,520 4,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.30% 86.01% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 3,440 2,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,777 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 20 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 20 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 10 £72,500 - 6
Bolton -18 4 £47,500 - 4
Salford +11 3 - - 1
Stockport +2 3 - - 3
Wigan - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 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 14 (13.08%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) Apache
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Moodle
4 1 (0.93%) Totara
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.88%) AWS
2 47 (43.93%) Azure
3 39 (36.45%) GCP
4 10 (9.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 9 (8.41%) Serverless
6 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.80%) Apigee
8 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.80%) GitHub
8 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.80%) SaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.87%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.93%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.08%) MySQL
3 10 (9.35%) Cloud Spanner
4 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Big Data
7 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (38.32%) Selenium
2 38 (35.51%) JIRA
3 31 (28.97%) Cucumber
4 30 (28.04%) Maven
4 30 (28.04%) SonarQube
4 30 (28.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (27.10%) Bitbucket
5 29 (27.10%) GitLab
6 20 (18.69%) Git
7 12 (11.21%) Postman
8 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
9 6 (5.61%) JMeter
9 6 (5.61%) LoadRunner
10 5 (4.67%) Appium
11 4 (3.74%) Fiddler
12 3 (2.80%) JUnit
12 3 (2.80%) TestRail
13 2 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (1.87%) NUnit
13 2 (1.87%) REST Assured
General
1 79 (73.83%) Finance
2 48 (44.86%) Banking
3 27 (25.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (17.76%) Retail
4 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
5 18 (16.82%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (16.82%) Investment Banking
6 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (12.15%) Games
7 8 (7.48%) Financial Institution
7 8 (7.48%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (3.74%) Cantonese Language
9 3 (2.80%) Law
9 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.87%) Front Office
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (45.79%) Software Engineer
2 31 (28.97%) Senior
3 15 (14.02%) Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (10.28%) Lead
5 11 (10.28%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) PHP Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Tester
7 6 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) QA Tester
8 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Test Manager
8 4 (3.74%) UAT Manager
8 4 (3.74%) UAT Test Manager
9 3 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (50.47%) React
2 49 (45.79%) Spring Boot
3 39 (36.45%) Spring
4 38 (35.51%) CSS
4 38 (35.51%) HTML
5 35 (32.71%) Kafka
6 34 (31.78%) RESTful
7 27 (25.23%) JPA
7 27 (25.23%) Redux
8 21 (19.63%) REST
9 20 (18.69%) CSS3
9 20 (18.69%) HTML5
10 19 (17.76%) Jest
11 18 (16.82%) Sass
12 17 (15.89%) Node.js
13 12 (11.21%) Hibernate
14 10 (9.35%) AngularJS
15 8 (7.48%) Playwright
16 6 (5.61%) LAMP
16 6 (5.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.04%) Enterprise Software
1 30 (28.04%) Product Ownership
2 13 (12.15%) Algorithms
3 12 (11.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.80%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.80%) Wiki
6 2 (1.87%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.87%) Derivative
6 2 (1.87%) Equities
6 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.87%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.87%) Replication
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (58.88%) Agile
2 58 (54.21%) Software Engineering
3 51 (47.66%) CI/CD
4 45 (42.06%) DevOps
5 41 (38.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (36.45%) Mentoring
6 39 (36.45%) Microservices
7 38 (35.51%) User Experience
8 34 (31.78%) SDLC
9 33 (30.84%) Front End Development
9 33 (30.84%) TDD
10 31 (28.97%) Containerisation
11 29 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (26.17%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (23.36%) Code Quality
14 20 (18.69%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (17.76%) Responsive Web Design
16 18 (16.82%) Migration
16 18 (16.82%) Strategic Thinking
17 13 (12.15%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (61.68%) Java
1 66 (61.68%) JavaScript
2 42 (39.25%) SQL
3 41 (38.32%) TypeScript
4 23 (21.50%) Python
5 10 (9.35%) C#
5 10 (9.35%) PHP
6 5 (4.67%) Go
7 3 (2.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) Degree
2 5 (4.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (41.12%) QA
2 22 (20.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (44.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (47.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.21%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Istio
4 2 (1.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Solace
2 10 (9.35%) Google
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Twitter
5 2 (1.87%) IBM
5 2 (1.87%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Siebel