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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 76 100
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 -57
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 254 364 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.72% 2.59% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.31% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 102 141 224
10th Percentile £39,000 £39,720 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,688 £46,073 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,546
90th Percentile £81,125 £78,750 £81,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.40% +4.58%

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 8,175 11,007 8,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.46% 78.34% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 6,056 6,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £39,372 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -26 194 £60,000 +8.11% 91
Yorkshire -35 45 £55,000 +10.00% 63
North East +7 15 £35,000 -40.66% 21
Test Automation
England

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (19.29%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 156 (61.42%) AWS
2 154 (60.63%) Azure
3 55 (21.65%) GCP
4 15 (5.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 14 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (5.51%) SaaS
5 14 (5.51%) Serverless
6 11 (4.33%) GitHub
7 7 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.97%) PaaS
9 5 (1.97%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.57%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.57%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.18%) Apigee
11 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) Firewall
2 6 (2.36%) DHCP
2 6 (2.36%) DNS
2 6 (2.36%) VLAN
2 6 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.57%) VPN
5 2 (0.79%) Modbus
5 2 (0.79%) Multicast
5 2 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.79%) SAN
6 1 (0.39%) BGP
6 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.39%) OSPF
6 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (48.03%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.12%) MySQL
3 12 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.94%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.57%) Big Data
8 2 (0.79%) DB2
8 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.79%) Power BI
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 138 (54.33%) Selenium
2 127 (50.00%) JIRA
3 125 (49.21%) Cucumber
4 122 (48.03%) GitLab
5 119 (46.85%) SonarQube
6 117 (46.06%) Maven
7 116 (45.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 114 (44.88%) Bitbucket
9 13 (5.12%) Git
10 12 (4.72%) Postman
11 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
12 8 (3.15%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.76%) JMeter
14 6 (2.36%) Appium
14 6 (2.36%) JUnit
15 4 (1.57%) Fiddler
15 4 (1.57%) LoadRunner
15 4 (1.57%) Robot Framework
16 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
16 2 (0.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 156 (61.42%) Finance
2 122 (48.03%) Banking
3 119 (46.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (29.13%) Retail
5 72 (28.35%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (28.35%) Investment Banking
6 36 (14.17%) Social Skills
7 18 (7.09%) Marketing
8 11 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.15%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.15%) Games
9 8 (3.15%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (2.76%) Law
11 6 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.36%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.57%) Cantonese Language
12 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 127 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 47 (18.50%) Senior
3 44 (17.32%) Developer
4 27 (10.63%) Senior Developer
5 17 (6.69%) Lead
6 14 (5.51%) Java Developer
6 14 (5.51%) Salesforce Developer
6 14 (5.51%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 11 (4.33%) Test Engineer
8 9 (3.54%) Tester
9 8 (3.15%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.15%) Engineering Manager
9 8 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (3.15%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.15%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.36%) IT Engineer
11 6 (2.36%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.36%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (51.97%) React
2 125 (49.21%) Spring
2 125 (49.21%) Spring Boot
3 122 (48.03%) CSS
3 122 (48.03%) HTML
4 120 (47.24%) Kafka
5 114 (44.88%) Redux
6 113 (44.49%) JPA
7 83 (32.68%) RESTful
8 76 (29.92%) CSS3
8 76 (29.92%) REST
9 75 (29.53%) Jest
10 74 (29.13%) HTML5
11 72 (28.35%) Sass
12 44 (17.32%) Hibernate
13 12 (4.72%) .NET
14 9 (3.54%) Playwright
15 8 (3.15%) Amazon Corretto
16 6 (2.36%) Node.js
17 4 (1.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (46.85%) Product Ownership
2 113 (44.49%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.15%) e-Learning
5 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.36%) FMCG
6 6 (2.36%) Wiki
7 5 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Derivative
10 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.79%) Equities
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) NHS
10 2 (0.79%) Replication
10 2 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.91%) Linux
1 15 (5.91%) Windows
2 8 (3.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.18%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (68.11%) Agile
2 164 (64.57%) DevOps
3 155 (61.02%) CI/CD
4 141 (55.51%) Software Engineering
5 132 (51.97%) Microservices
6 126 (49.61%) Front End Development
7 125 (49.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (48.82%) SDLC
9 123 (48.43%) Containerisation
10 115 (45.28%) Performance Optimisation
11 109 (42.91%) Mentoring
12 98 (38.58%) User Experience
13 81 (31.89%) Migration
14 75 (29.53%) Responsive Web Design
15 72 (28.35%) Strategic Thinking
16 71 (27.95%) TDD
17 60 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (21.26%) Clean Code
19 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
20 22 (8.66%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 159 (62.60%) Java
2 143 (56.30%) JavaScript
3 142 (55.91%) SQL
4 84 (33.07%) TypeScript
5 34 (13.39%) Python
6 21 (8.27%) C#
7 14 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.76%) Scala
9 6 (2.36%) Go
10 5 (1.97%) PHP
11 4 (1.57%) Bash
12 2 (0.79%) C
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (6.69%) DBS Check
2 15 (5.91%) Degree
3 8 (3.15%) ISTQB
4 7 (2.76%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (55.51%) QA
2 74 (29.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.57%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 138 (54.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 135 (53.15%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.87%) Terraform
3 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.18%) Istio
5 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 112 (44.09%) Solace
2 17 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.91%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.15%) Databricks
4 8 (3.15%) Oracle
5 6 (2.36%) Sophos
6 4 (1.57%) IBM
7 3 (1.18%) Cisco
7 3 (1.18%) Palantir
8 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.79%) Google
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe
9 1 (0.39%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.39%) PayPal
9 1 (0.39%) Siebel
9 1 (0.39%) Veracode
9 1 (0.39%) VMware