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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 84 49
Rank change year-on-year +40 -35 +15
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 23 30 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.59% 1.51% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 1.77% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 34
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,400
25th Percentile £43,202 £51,875 £47,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,002 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile - - £68,375
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 747 1,694 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.22% 85.51% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 392 1,377 594
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £64,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
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 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 30 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 30 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 +38 18 £59,002 -1.66% 72
Northumberland +2 2 £61,000 +20.20% 4
Durham - 1 - - 2
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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Slack
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Maven
2 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
2 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) NUnit
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
3 2 (8.70%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (17.39%) Law
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Electronics
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Engineering Manager
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
1 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Support Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Software Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) CSS
2 4 (17.39%) React
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) HTML
3 3 (13.04%) JPA
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka
3 3 (13.04%) Redux
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.70%) CSS3
4 2 (8.70%) HTML5
4 2 (8.70%) Jest
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) Sass
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Software Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (43.48%) Mentoring
4 9 (39.13%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) Manual Testing
5 6 (26.09%) Project Management
6 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Regression Testing
7 4 (17.39%) API Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (17.39%) Microservices
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
8 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Solace
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft