QA Automation Jobs in the North of England

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 380 408
Rank change year-on-year +42 +28 +21
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 1 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.009% 0.034% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.041% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - - £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £74,375
90th Percentile - £63,125 £93,200
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

QA 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,936 14,744 16,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.43% 82.48% 96.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,444 11,305 7,866
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,425 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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
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 24 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
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 15
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA