QA Automation Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring QA Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 66 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 -28 -
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.37% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.17% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 - £55,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 448 584 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 82.50% 85.26% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 327 265 225
10th Percentile £25,300 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,716 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.09% -5.00%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing QA Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA