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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 110 111
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 325 297 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 3.16% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.49% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 226 131 223
10th Percentile £41,625 £32,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £77,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & 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 14,637 8,522 14,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 90.55% 79.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,971 4,222 10,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,761 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 2026. 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 -11 170 £62,500 -3.85% 59
North East -3 85 £52,500 -0.59% 21
Yorkshire -19 70 £69,310 +41.45% 43
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 13 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.08%) Apache
2 10 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (2.15%) Confluence
5 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (44.00%) AWS
2 106 (32.62%) Azure
3 54 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (13.54%) Serverless
5 25 (7.69%) GitHub
6 23 (7.08%) Amazon S3
7 18 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (5.54%) SaaS
8 16 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.31%) Azure AKS
9 14 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.69%) Firebase
11 12 (3.69%) GCP
12 11 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.62%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.62%) MongoDB
3 25 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.85%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.62%) MySQL
5 15 (4.62%) Spark SQL
6 11 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.46%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.54%) Power BI
9 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.23%) Flink
10 4 (1.23%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
12 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.62%) Redis
13 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 52 (16.00%) GitLab
2 31 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.38%) Git
4 21 (6.46%) JIRA
5 18 (5.54%) fastlane
6 17 (5.23%) Postman
7 15 (4.62%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.38%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.46%) JUnit
9 8 (2.46%) Maven
9 8 (2.46%) Spock
10 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.15%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.85%) JMeter
11 6 (1.85%) LabVIEW
11 6 (1.85%) Selenium
11 6 (1.85%) Xcode
12 5 (1.54%) Android Studio
12 5 (1.54%) Gradle
General
1 79 (24.31%) Public Sector
2 64 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.92%) Finance
4 34 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.92%) Banking
7 13 (4.00%) Marketing
8 9 (2.77%) Electronics
8 9 (2.77%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Legal
10 7 (2.15%) Games
11 6 (1.85%) Law
11 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.54%) Retail
13 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.23%) Publishing
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 97 (29.85%) Senior
2 60 (18.46%) Test Engineer
3 58 (17.85%) Developer
4 51 (15.69%) Lead
5 42 (12.92%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (7.69%) Java Engineer
7 25 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 22 (6.77%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (5.85%) Senior DevOps
9 19 (5.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) Java Developer
11 15 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
13 12 (3.69%) Analyst
13 12 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.31%) Node.js
2 46 (14.15%) Spring
3 44 (13.54%) AngularJS
4 42 (12.92%) REST
5 40 (12.31%) React
6 38 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 28 (8.62%) RESTful
8 27 (8.31%) PySpark
9 23 (7.08%) .NET
10 19 (5.85%) CSS
11 18 (5.54%) HTML
11 18 (5.54%) Playwright
11 18 (5.54%) Vue
12 14 (4.31%) Next.js
13 10 (3.08%) OAuth
14 9 (2.77%) ARM Templates
14 9 (2.77%) Kafka
14 9 (2.77%) OAuth2
15 8 (2.46%) GraphQL
15 8 (2.46%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.77%) Product Ownership
3 30 (9.23%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.77%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.15%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.23%) Online Games
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.92%) NHS
11 3 (0.92%) PKI
12 2 (0.62%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.69%) Linux
2 19 (5.85%) Unix
2 19 (5.85%) Windows
3 17 (5.23%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.08%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (63.08%) CI/CD
2 182 (56.00%) Agile
3 141 (43.38%) DevOps
4 124 (38.15%) Mentoring
5 83 (25.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (24.92%) Software Engineering
7 77 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (23.08%) Microservices
9 71 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (21.54%) Scrum
11 69 (21.23%) Coaching
12 66 (20.31%) TDD
13 65 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
15 45 (13.85%) Observability
16 42 (12.92%) AI
17 36 (11.08%) Deployment Automation
17 36 (11.08%) Design Patterns
18 35 (10.77%) Containerisation
18 35 (10.77%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 135 (41.54%) Java
2 108 (33.23%) Python
3 87 (26.77%) SQL
4 72 (22.15%) JavaScript
5 45 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.08%) C#
7 13 (4.00%) Swift
8 10 (3.08%) Bash
8 10 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.77%) Groovy
10 8 (2.46%) Go
10 8 (2.46%) Ruby
11 6 (1.85%) C++
12 5 (1.54%) PHP
12 5 (1.54%) VB
13 4 (1.23%) C
14 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (9.54%) Degree
2 30 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.85%) HNC
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.92%) QA
2 31 (9.54%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.54%) WCAG
4 15 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (13.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (18.46%) Terraform
2 32 (9.85%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.00%) Argo
4 5 (1.54%) Ansible
5 4 (1.23%) Grafana
6 3 (0.92%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (7.08%) Databricks
2 17 (5.23%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 13 (4.00%) Splunk
4 12 (3.69%) AppDynamics
5 10 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.77%) Adobe
6 9 (2.77%) Google
7 7 (2.15%) Pega
8 6 (1.85%) Apple
9 3 (0.92%) IBM
9 3 (0.92%) Keysight
10 2 (0.62%) Braze
10 2 (0.62%) dotdigital
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle
11 1 (0.31%) Confluent
11 1 (0.31%) DevExpress
11 1 (0.31%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.31%) SAP
11 1 (0.31%) UiPath