Test Automation Job Trends in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 86 110
Rank change year-on-year -48 +24 -51
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 143 318 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.50% 2.55% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.11% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 106 108 182
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,000 £67,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,446 £72,519 £82,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,036 10,229 7,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.35% 81.98% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 4,884 5,341
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £50,909 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -7.44% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,017 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North of England

Test 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 Test Automation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
North West -28 86 £60,000 +26.98% 82
Yorkshire -27 44 £55,000 +11.11% 33
North East -3 13 £52,600 -9.25% 22
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.50%) Confluence
3 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.40%) Apache
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.70%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.27%) AWS
2 37 (25.87%) Azure
3 22 (15.38%) SaaS
3 22 (15.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 17 (11.89%) GitHub
5 14 (9.79%) Serverless
6 10 (6.99%) GCP
7 9 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.90%) PaaS
9 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.10%) Boomi
12 3 (2.10%) Datadog
12 3 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 6 (4.20%) DHCP
2 6 (4.20%) DNS
2 6 (4.20%) VLAN
2 6 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.80%) HTTP
4 3 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.40%) Modbus
6 1 (0.70%) Network Security
6 1 (0.70%) SSH
6 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.59%) MySQL
3 7 (4.90%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.40%) Power BI
6 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.40%) Tableau
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.70%) Big Data
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Selenium
2 11 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 10 (6.99%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.29%) GitLab
4 9 (6.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) JIRA
5 8 (5.59%) JMeter
6 7 (4.90%) Git
7 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.80%) Appium
8 4 (2.80%) Postman
9 3 (2.10%) JUnit
10 2 (1.40%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.40%) Gatling
10 2 (1.40%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.40%) Locust
10 2 (1.40%) Maven
10 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.40%) webpack
General
1 30 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.58%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Marketing
4 11 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.90%) Games
6 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Back Office
9 2 (1.40%) Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Billing
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Publishing
10 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (39.16%) Developer
2 51 (35.66%) Senior
3 36 (25.17%) Senior Developer
4 23 (16.08%) Lead
5 21 (14.69%) Salesforce Developer
5 21 (14.69%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.99%) QA Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) QA Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Engineering Manager
11 6 (4.20%) IT Support
11 6 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) React
2 13 (9.09%) Spring
3 11 (7.69%) .NET
3 11 (7.69%) CSS
3 11 (7.69%) HTML
4 10 (6.99%) Node.js
4 10 (6.99%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.29%) Playwright
6 8 (5.59%) Kafka
7 7 (4.90%) RESTful
8 6 (4.20%) Django
8 6 (4.20%) Flask
8 6 (4.20%) Vue
9 5 (3.50%) Amazon Corretto
9 5 (3.50%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.50%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.50%) Jest
9 5 (3.50%) Middleware
10 3 (2.10%) Blazor
10 3 (2.10%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
1 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.20%) FMCG
4 5 (3.50%) e-Learning
4 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.80%) Wiki
6 3 (2.10%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.40%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.40%) Derivative
7 2 (1.40%) Equities
7 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.40%) NHS
7 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.40%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.69%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.80%) Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.96%) Agile
2 59 (41.26%) Mentoring
3 55 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 47 (32.87%) DevOps
5 30 (20.98%) Process Improvement
6 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (19.58%) Software Engineering
7 25 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (16.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (16.08%) TDD
10 22 (15.38%) Business Analysis
11 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (13.29%) Coaching
13 18 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (11.89%) Business Transformation
15 16 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (10.49%) SDLC
17 14 (9.79%) Microservices
18 13 (9.09%) API Testing
18 13 (9.09%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.17%) Java
2 27 (18.88%) Python
3 25 (17.48%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.78%) SQL
5 20 (13.99%) C#
6 11 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.99%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.80%) PHP
8 4 (2.80%) Scala
9 3 (2.10%) Go
10 2 (1.40%) C
10 2 (1.40%) C++
11 1 (0.70%) Bash
11 1 (0.70%) Delphi
11 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) DBS Check
2 11 (7.69%) Degree
3 9 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.80%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.98%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 4 (2.80%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) WCAG
6 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (18.18%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.29%) Terraform
2 16 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.50%) Grafana
5 3 (2.10%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Control-M
6 2 (1.40%) Functional Safety
6 2 (1.40%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (16.08%) Salesforce
2 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.99%) Oracle
4 8 (5.59%) Databricks
5 6 (4.20%) Sophos
6 3 (2.10%) Palantir
6 3 (2.10%) Software AG
6 3 (2.10%) webMethods
7 2 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.40%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.40%) Google
7 2 (1.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.70%) Adobe
8 1 (0.70%) Genesys
8 1 (0.70%) PayPal
8 1 (0.70%) Qualys
8 1 (0.70%) Samsung
8 1 (0.70%) SAP
8 1 (0.70%) Siebel