Test Automation Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Automated Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 57 32
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 19 26 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.92% 2.54% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 2.87% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 32
10th Percentile £34,858 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £49,607 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,002 £65,465 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +11.43% +9.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £66,563
90th Percentile - £72,343 £69,875
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 302 906 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 94.08% 88.39% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 213 753 391
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,603 £64,125
90th Percentile £83,300 £77,500 £76,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Slack
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Maven
2 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
2 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) NUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 2 (10.53%) SpecFlow
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.26%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Development Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Manager
3 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Development Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Trainee
3 1 (5.26%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) React
3 4 (21.05%) CSS
3 4 (21.05%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) JPA
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
4 3 (15.79%) Redux
4 3 (15.79%) Spring
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) CSS3
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5
5 2 (10.53%) Jest
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) Sass
6 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
6 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) PropTech
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
3 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
4 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (36.84%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Project Management
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) SDLC
8 4 (21.05%) API Testing
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (21.05%) Scrum
8 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
9 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
9 3 (15.79%) Microservices
9 3 (15.79%) OO
9 3 (15.79%) OOP
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (63.16%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Solace
2 1 (5.26%) SAP