QA Automation Jobs in the North of England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 416 426
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 -74
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 7 16 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.041% 0.092% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.095% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 4
10th Percentile - £38,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,688 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £76,625 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,479 16,873 16,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.82% 96.89% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,126 8,022 10,813
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,099 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.62% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in the North of England

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for QA Automation in the North of England

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in the North of England

QA Automation
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 QA Automation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 0 6 £52,500 +16.67% 2
North East - 1 £55,000 -
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
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 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) QA Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
4 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Line Management
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker