Test Automation Job Trends in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 84 129
Rank change year-on-year -30 +45 -103
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 165 174 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.31% 3.44% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.85% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 95 80 196
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £73,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,834 4,520 10,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.30% 89.35% 79.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,907 2,495 7,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test 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 Test Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
West Midlands -34 83 £61,000 -9.63% 53
East Midlands -17 81 £55,000 +22.22% 26
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.45%) IIS
2 6 (3.64%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (27.88%) AWS
2 40 (24.24%) Azure
3 27 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (16.36%) Serverless
4 16 (9.70%) GitHub
5 15 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (8.48%) Firebase
6 14 (8.48%) Stripe
6 14 (8.48%) TestFlight
7 13 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (7.27%) SaaS
9 9 (5.45%) npm
9 9 (5.45%) NuGet
9 9 (5.45%) SonarCloud
10 8 (4.85%) PaaS
11 7 (4.24%) dbt
11 7 (4.24%) GCP
12 4 (2.42%) BrowserStack
12 4 (2.42%) Tricentis Tosca
13 3 (1.82%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) Bluetooth
2 4 (2.42%) MQTT
2 4 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.42%) Wireless
2 4 (2.42%) ZigBee
3 2 (1.21%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.21%) Modbus
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) RFID
4 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.61%) VLAN
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.21%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Power BI
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.61%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 22 (13.33%) Git
2 17 (10.30%) Selenium
3 15 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 14 (8.48%) Crashlytics
4 14 (8.48%) GitLab
4 14 (8.48%) XCTest
5 10 (6.06%) Gatling
5 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.45%) JIRA
7 8 (4.85%) JMeter
7 8 (4.85%) Postman
8 7 (4.24%) Cypress.io
8 7 (4.24%) XCUITest
8 7 (4.24%) Zephyr
9 6 (3.64%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.03%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.42%) Burp Suite
11 4 (2.42%) Robot Framework
11 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.42%) TestRail
General
1 38 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.30%) Banking
3 13 (7.88%) Finance
4 12 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.24%) Legal
7 6 (3.64%) Electronics
7 6 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Law
10 2 (1.21%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (23.03%) Lead
2 32 (19.39%) Senior
3 21 (12.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 17 (10.30%) Test Engineer
5 16 (9.70%) QA Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Mobile Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Test Leader
7 12 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) QA Leader
8 10 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Senior QA Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Quality Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Graduate Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (21.82%) React
2 14 (8.48%) .NET
2 14 (8.48%) Playwright
2 14 (8.48%) SwiftUI
2 14 (8.48%) UIKit
3 13 (7.88%) AWS CDK
3 13 (7.88%) Next.js
3 13 (7.88%) REST
4 12 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 12 (7.27%) Node.js
4 12 (7.27%) Spring
5 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.45%) YAML
7 8 (4.85%) HTML
8 7 (4.24%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.64%) CSS
10 5 (3.03%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.03%) ASP.NET
10 5 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.79%) Mobile App
2 27 (16.36%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.64%) ARM Cortex
4 6 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.42%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.42%) IoT
7 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.94%) Apple iOS
2 20 (12.12%) Linux
3 10 (6.06%) Windows
4 9 (5.45%) Android
5 4 (2.42%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 77 (46.67%) Agile
3 58 (35.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (31.52%) Mentoring
5 51 (30.91%) DevOps
6 38 (23.03%) Observability
7 37 (22.42%) Test Strategy
8 34 (20.61%) Software Testing
9 32 (19.39%) Clean Code
10 29 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (16.97%) Code Quality
12 27 (16.36%) Re-Platforming
13 26 (15.76%) Analytics
14 25 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (14.55%) User Experience
16 23 (13.94%) Performance Testing
17 22 (13.33%) Coaching
17 22 (13.33%) Computer Science
18 21 (12.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.64%) Java
2 31 (18.79%) Python
3 27 (16.36%) TypeScript
4 22 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 20 (12.12%) C#
6 15 (9.09%) Bash
7 14 (8.48%) Kotlin
7 14 (8.48%) Swift
8 13 (7.88%) SQL
9 12 (7.27%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.64%) C
10 6 (3.64%) C++
11 2 (1.21%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.61%) JCL
12 1 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (15.15%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.45%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.24%) ISEB
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) HNC
7 1 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (21.21%) QA
2 26 (15.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.42%) JTAG
3 4 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.21%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.21%) MISRA
5 2 (1.21%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.61%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (12.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.30%) Terraform
3 9 (5.45%) Grafana
4 4 (2.42%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.82%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.21%) Argo
6 2 (1.21%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.61%) Ansible
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (8.48%) Amplitude
1 14 (8.48%) Braze
2 9 (5.45%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (2.42%) Oracle
3 4 (2.42%) Veracode
4 3 (1.82%) HP
4 3 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.21%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.61%) Citrix
6 1 (0.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) Infor
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) SAP
6 1 (0.61%) Splunk