Test Automation Jobs in Merseyside

Automated Testing
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 50 82 40
Rank change year-on-year +32 -42 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 12 14 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.65% 1.06% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 1.32% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile £28,325 - £47,250
25th Percentile £31,438 £36,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £42,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% -26.96% +6.98%
75th Percentile £42,438 £68,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £45,175 £75,875 £79,750
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
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 430 1,059 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 95.13% 80.53% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 176 733 409
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £59,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £79,500 £70,000
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Merseyside

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Merseyside

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Merseyside over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Merseyside

Test Automation
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +35 3 £37,250 -39.18% 17
Prescot - 3 - -
St Helens - 3 - -
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 9 (75.00%) Bitbucket
2 9 (75.00%) GitLab
2 9 (75.00%) JIRA
2 9 (75.00%) Maven
2 9 (75.00%) Selenium
2 9 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 9 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (75.00%) Banking
2 9 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
3 6 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 6 (50.00%) Retail
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Automotive
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) React
2 10 (83.33%) CSS
2 10 (83.33%) HTML
3 9 (75.00%) JPA
3 9 (75.00%) Kafka
3 9 (75.00%) Redux
3 9 (75.00%) Spring
3 9 (75.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (50.00%) CSS3
4 6 (50.00%) HTML5
4 6 (50.00%) Jest
4 6 (50.00%) REST
4 6 (50.00%) RESTful
4 6 (50.00%) Sass
5 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (8.33%) .NET
6 1 (8.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (75.00%) Microservices
2 9 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 9 (75.00%) SDLC
2 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 7 (58.33%) User Experience
5 6 (50.00%) Migration
5 6 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 6 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (33.33%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 9 (75.00%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) Python
6 1 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
6 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
2 7 (58.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) cPanel
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Solace