QA Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 - 291
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 7 0 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.100% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 35
10th Percentile £44,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 - £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,397 9,656 9,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.31% 82.42% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,129 4,625
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,438 £34,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,475 £75,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the Midlands

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the Midlands

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the Midlands

QA Automation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
East Midlands - 7 £57,500 -
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
3 1 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) Postman
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) QA Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) OWASP
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA