Test Automation Jobs in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 83 46
Rank change year-on-year +41 -37 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 27 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 3.84% 1.91% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.20% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 24 27 37
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,550
25th Percentile £37,350 £48,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,002 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,813 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 - £71,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 623 1,590 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 88.49% 86.89% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 367 1,293 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,873 £30,050
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £37,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £48,125
Median % change year-on-year - -1.30% +13.24%
75th Percentile £66,945 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,950 £75,772 £73,850
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear +32 19 £57,500 -4.17% 34
Northumberland +8 4 £61,000 +23.23% 1
Durham - 2 £37,500 - 1
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Slack
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Postman
1 3 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) NUnit
2 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
2 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Electronics
3 4 (14.81%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) iGaming
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Engineering Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Consultant
4 4 (14.81%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Support Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Tester
7 1 (3.70%) Application Development Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.70%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.41%) React
2 2 (7.41%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) PropTech
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (48.15%) Mentoring
1 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Project Management
5 5 (18.52%) API Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (18.52%) Regression Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) OO
6 4 (14.81%) OOP
6 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
7 3 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) C#
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) C
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (48.15%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (14.81%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) SAP