Automation Tester Jobs in the North of England

Automation Tester
England > North of England

The median Automation Tester salary in the North of England is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 424 361
Rank change year-on-year +48 -63 -63
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 16 19 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.092% 0.11% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.12% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 41
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,950 £36,654
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £68,875 £61,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 16,439 15,644 17,375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 89.43% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,717 8,302 11,128
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in the North of England.

Salary trend for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Tester in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Tester in the North of England

Automation Tester
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
North West +4 8 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire +78 5 £45,000 +1.12% 2
North East -3 3 £47,500 -
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Automation Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (68.75%) Selenium
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
3 9 (56.25%) C#
3 9 (56.25%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Cucumber
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (43.75%) Scrum
4 7 (43.75%) QA
4 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Appium
5 6 (37.50%) Gherkin
6 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
6 5 (31.25%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Postman
7 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Protractor
7 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) WebDriver
7 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
8 3 (18.75%) SaaS
8 3 (18.75%) BDD
8 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Selenium
2 9 (56.25%) Cucumber
3 6 (37.50%) Appium
4 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
5 4 (25.00%) Postman
5 4 (25.00%) Protractor
5 4 (25.00%) WebDriver
6 3 (18.75%) Git
6 3 (18.75%) SoapUI
6 3 (18.75%) TestNG
7 2 (12.50%) JIRA
7 2 (12.50%) JMeter
7 2 (12.50%) JUnit
7 2 (12.50%) SOAtest
7 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
7 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
8 1 (6.25%) Bugzilla
8 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
8 1 (6.25%) Maven
8 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (43.75%) Scrum
4 5 (31.25%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) BDD
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) User Stories
8 1 (6.25%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) C#
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) HP