Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 117 29
Rank change year-on-year +25 -88 +29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 194 247 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.74% 2.08% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.53% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 97 208 233
10th Percentile £37,000 £33,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 6,479 9,747 8,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 82.00% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,160 4,510
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,362
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 £62,270 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
West Midlands -7 105 £62,500 +19.05% 99
East Midlands +59 89 £52,500 +10.53% 66
Test Automation
England

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 48 (24.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.27%) Azure
2 77 (39.69%) AWS
3 47 (24.23%) GCP
4 20 (10.31%) SaaS
5 16 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.12%) GitHub
6 8 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.12%) IaaS
6 8 (4.12%) PaaS
7 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.55%) Serverless
9 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.03%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.52%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.52%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.52%) Firebase
10 1 (0.52%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) VPN
2 15 (7.73%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.55%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.52%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.52%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.52%) MPLS
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (32.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.58%) Power BI
3 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 102 (52.58%) Selenium
2 89 (45.88%) JIRA
3 79 (40.72%) Cucumber
4 72 (37.11%) SonarQube
5 64 (32.99%) GitLab
5 64 (32.99%) Maven
6 63 (32.47%) Bitbucket
6 63 (32.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (8.25%) Robot Framework
8 14 (7.22%) Postman
9 6 (3.09%) Appium
9 6 (3.09%) Git
9 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
9 6 (3.09%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.55%) JMeter
10 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.03%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.03%) NUnit
11 2 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 79 (40.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 75 (38.66%) Finance
3 66 (34.02%) Banking
4 58 (29.90%) Social Skills
5 19 (9.79%) Retail
6 16 (8.25%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (8.25%) Investment Banking
7 15 (7.73%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
10 10 (5.15%) Law
11 5 (2.58%) Automotive
11 5 (2.58%) Electronics
11 5 (2.58%) Games
11 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.06%) Billing
13 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.52%) iGaming
15 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (38.14%) Software Engineer
2 33 (17.01%) Lead
3 22 (11.34%) Automation Engineer
4 20 (10.31%) Test Engineer
5 19 (9.79%) Developer
6 18 (9.28%) Validation Engineer
7 17 (8.76%) Test Automation Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) Senior
9 12 (6.19%) QA Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) PHP Developer
11 7 (3.61%) PHP Symfony Developer
11 7 (3.61%) Symfony Developer
11 7 (3.61%) Tester
12 6 (3.09%) QA Leader
12 6 (3.09%) Software Tester
13 5 (2.58%) Analyst
13 5 (2.58%) Analytics Manager
13 5 (2.58%) Test Leader
13 5 (2.58%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (38.14%) HTML
2 73 (37.63%) React
3 71 (36.60%) CSS
4 65 (33.51%) Kafka
5 64 (32.99%) JPA
5 64 (32.99%) Spring
5 64 (32.99%) Spring Boot
6 63 (32.47%) Redux
7 48 (24.74%) Hibernate
8 19 (9.79%) HTML5
9 18 (9.28%) RESTful
10 17 (8.76%) Jest
10 17 (8.76%) REST
11 16 (8.25%) CSS3
11 16 (8.25%) Playwright
11 16 (8.25%) Sass
12 8 (4.12%) .NET
12 8 (4.12%) ARM Templates
12 8 (4.12%) Azure Blueprints
13 7 (3.61%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 75 (38.66%) Product Ownership
2 63 (32.47%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (9.28%) Operational Technology
3 18 (9.28%) SCADA
4 15 (7.73%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.19%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.64%) Mobile App
7 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.58%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.03%) Replication
12 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.52%) PKI
12 1 (0.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.28%) Windows
2 17 (8.76%) Linux
3 5 (2.58%) Android
3 5 (2.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (52.06%) Agile
2 99 (51.03%) DevOps
3 89 (45.88%) Software Engineering
4 79 (40.72%) CI/CD
5 73 (37.63%) SDLC
6 72 (37.11%) Containerisation
7 70 (36.08%) Front End Development
8 69 (35.57%) Mentoring
9 67 (34.54%) Microservices
10 64 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
11 63 (32.47%) Performance Optimisation
12 59 (30.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (29.38%) TDD
14 49 (25.26%) Clean Code
15 32 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
17 27 (13.92%) Software Testing
18 26 (13.40%) Computer Science
19 24 (12.37%) Validation
20 20 (10.31%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 78 (40.21%) SQL
3 74 (38.14%) Java
4 31 (15.98%) Python
5 29 (14.95%) C#
6 23 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.25%) Bash
7 16 (8.25%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.12%) PHP
9 6 (3.09%) C++
10 4 (2.06%) Rust
11 3 (1.55%) C
11 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.55%) Swift
12 1 (0.52%) Ada
12 1 (0.52%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.52%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (24.74%) Degree
2 21 (10.82%) ISTQB
3 14 (7.22%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.58%) ACCA
5 5 (2.58%) CIMA
6 4 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (58.25%) QA
2 18 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.12%) NCSC
4 3 (1.55%) PMBOK
5 2 (1.03%) JTAG
5 2 (1.03%) MISRA
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (37.11%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Firmware
3 2 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (37.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.15%) Terraform
3 8 (4.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (32.47%) Solace
2 5 (2.58%) Alteryx
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.55%) Minitab
3 3 (1.55%) SAP
4 2 (1.03%) Apple
4 2 (1.03%) Kofax
4 2 (1.03%) UiPath
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco
5 1 (0.52%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) Juniper
5 1 (0.52%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.52%) Pega