Test Automation Jobs in Newport

Automated Testing
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Newport 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 28 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 11 2 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 6.88% 1.19% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 1.69% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £46,726 £49,200 -
25th Percentile - £51,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +33.09%
75th Percentile - £65,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,800 £93,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 118 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 96.25% 70.24% 96.70%
Number of salaries quoted 120 96 107
10th Percentile £35,875 £26,500 £26,391
25th Percentile £58,750 £42,500 £33,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,101 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.76% +15.78% +1.69%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £60,750
90th Percentile £70,640 £66,750 £68,497
South Wales median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £45,228
% change year-on-year +11.58% +5.02% -8.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Newport

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Newport

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Newport

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Newport

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Newport over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Newport

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newport 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) NUnit
1 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 7 (63.64%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Senior Test Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Software Test Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Software Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
1 9 (81.82%) Configuration Management
1 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
2 7 (63.64%) UML
2 7 (63.64%) Validation
2 7 (63.64%) Verification and Validation
2 7 (63.64%) Waterfall
3 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Register
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Kanban
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Ada
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft