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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -91 +25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 174 239 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.56% 1.90% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.35% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 79 200 235
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -9.09% +14.58%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £79,500
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 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +2 96 £66,250 +26.19% 93
East Midlands +56 78 £47,500 - 80
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 50 (28.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.40%) Azure
2 76 (43.68%) AWS
3 48 (27.59%) GCP
4 14 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.47%) SaaS
6 6 (3.45%) GitHub
6 6 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.45%) IaaS
6 6 (3.45%) PaaS
7 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.72%) AWS KMS
8 3 (1.72%) Route 53
9 2 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.15%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.15%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.20%) VPN
2 15 (8.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.15%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.57%) FlexRay
4 1 (0.57%) Internet
4 1 (0.57%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.57%) MPLS
4 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (36.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.87%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.87%) Power BI
3 3 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Big Data
5 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 96 (55.17%) Selenium
2 89 (51.15%) JIRA
3 80 (45.98%) Cucumber
4 72 (41.38%) SonarQube
5 67 (38.51%) Maven
6 64 (36.78%) GitLab
7 63 (36.21%) Bitbucket
7 63 (36.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (9.20%) Robot Framework
9 8 (4.60%) Postman
10 7 (4.02%) Git
10 7 (4.02%) Jenkins
11 6 (3.45%) Appium
11 6 (3.45%) WebDriver
12 4 (2.30%) JUnit
13 3 (1.72%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.72%) DbUnit
13 3 (1.72%) JMeter
13 3 (1.72%) jMock
13 3 (1.72%) Mockito
General
1 79 (45.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 76 (43.68%) Finance
3 65 (37.36%) Banking
4 46 (26.44%) Social Skills
5 17 (9.77%) Retail
6 16 (9.20%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (9.20%) Investment Banking
7 15 (8.62%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 11 (6.32%) Law
10 5 (2.87%) Automotive
10 5 (2.87%) Electronics
10 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.15%) Billing
12 2 (1.15%) Games
13 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (40.80%) Software Engineer
2 32 (18.39%) Lead
3 22 (12.64%) Automation Engineer
4 19 (10.92%) Developer
5 18 (10.34%) Validation Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) Test Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Senior
7 15 (8.62%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) PHP Developer
8 8 (4.60%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 8 (4.60%) Symfony Developer
9 7 (4.02%) Analyst
10 6 (3.45%) QA Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Test Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) Analytics Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Software Tester
11 5 (2.87%) Tester
12 4 (2.30%) Test Leader
13 3 (1.72%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (42.53%) React
2 72 (41.38%) CSS
2 72 (41.38%) HTML
3 66 (37.93%) JPA
3 66 (37.93%) Spring
3 66 (37.93%) Spring Boot
4 65 (37.36%) Kafka
5 63 (36.21%) Redux
6 50 (28.74%) Hibernate
7 19 (10.92%) RESTful
8 18 (10.34%) REST
9 17 (9.77%) Jest
9 17 (9.77%) Playwright
10 16 (9.20%) CSS3
10 16 (9.20%) HTML5
10 16 (9.20%) Sass
11 8 (4.60%) Symfony
12 6 (3.45%) .NET
12 6 (3.45%) ARM Templates
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 70 (40.23%) Product Ownership
2 63 (36.21%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (10.34%) Operational Technology
3 18 (10.34%) SCADA
4 15 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.02%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.15%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.15%) Replication
10 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.49%) Linux
2 16 (9.20%) Windows
3 3 (1.72%) Android
3 3 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (55.75%) DevOps
2 96 (55.17%) Agile
3 81 (46.55%) Software Engineering
4 79 (45.40%) CI/CD
5 73 (41.95%) Containerisation
6 71 (40.80%) Front End Development
6 71 (40.80%) SDLC
7 69 (39.66%) Microservices
8 64 (36.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (36.21%) Performance Optimisation
10 62 (35.63%) Mentoring
11 57 (32.76%) TDD
12 55 (31.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (27.59%) Clean Code
14 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (13.22%) Computer Science
16 23 (13.22%) Validation
17 21 (12.07%) Test Management
18 20 (11.49%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 94 (54.02%) JavaScript
2 76 (43.68%) Java
3 73 (41.95%) SQL
4 28 (16.09%) Python
5 22 (12.64%) TypeScript
6 21 (12.07%) C#
7 15 (8.62%) Bash
7 15 (8.62%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.17%) PHP
9 3 (1.72%) C++
9 3 (1.72%) Rust
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) Dart
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (25.86%) Degree
2 22 (12.64%) ISTQB
3 11 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.87%) ACCA
5 5 (2.87%) CIMA
5 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (59.20%) QA
2 17 (9.77%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.45%) NCSC
4 3 (1.72%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.57%) JTAG
System Software
1 73 (41.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (41.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.17%) Terraform
3 7 (4.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (36.21%) Solace
2 5 (2.87%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.72%) Minitab
4 3 (1.72%) SAP
5 2 (1.15%) Kofax
5 2 (1.15%) UiPath
6 1 (0.57%) Apple
6 1 (0.57%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco
6 1 (0.57%) Google
6 1 (0.57%) Juniper
6 1 (0.57%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle