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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 95 121
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 -85
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 281 288 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.43% 3.59% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 3.83% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 201 125 237
10th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,504 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +10.01% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 13,555 7,510 15,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.79% 93.64% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,006 3,633 11,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,530
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -3 147 £60,000 -7.69% 70
Yorkshire -34 68 £73,750 +46.20% 33
North East -5 66 £52,500 -8.70% 21
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 8 (2.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (2.49%) Apache
2 7 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.49%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.49%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.07%) Confluence
3 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (40.93%) AWS
2 90 (32.03%) Azure
3 53 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (13.88%) Serverless
5 22 (7.83%) GitHub
6 16 (5.69%) Amazon S3
6 16 (5.69%) SaaS
7 15 (5.34%) Azure AKS
7 15 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (3.91%) Firebase
11 10 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.56%) GCP
12 9 (3.20%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.71%) SMS
3 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.61%) MongoDB
3 25 (8.90%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.34%) Spark SQL
5 14 (4.98%) MySQL
6 13 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.42%) Flink
10 4 (1.42%) Power BI
11 3 (1.07%) Big Data
11 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.36%) Redis
13 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (15.66%) GitLab
2 29 (10.32%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.47%) Git
4 17 (6.05%) JIRA
5 15 (5.34%) fastlane
5 15 (5.34%) Postman
6 11 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.85%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.49%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.14%) JMeter
9 6 (2.14%) LabVIEW
9 6 (2.14%) Maven
9 6 (2.14%) Selenium
10 5 (1.78%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.78%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.78%) Gradle
10 5 (1.78%) Xcode
11 4 (1.42%) Gatling
11 4 (1.42%) Spock
General
1 62 (22.06%) Public Sector
2 54 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.23%) Finance
4 30 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.98%) Banking
7 13 (4.63%) Marketing
8 9 (3.20%) Electronics
8 9 (3.20%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.49%) Games
11 6 (2.14%) Legal
12 5 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.07%) French Language
14 3 (1.07%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.07%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (1.07%) Publishing
14 3 (1.07%) Retail
14 3 (1.07%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (27.05%) Senior
2 60 (21.35%) Developer
3 53 (18.86%) Lead
4 51 (18.15%) Test Engineer
5 34 (12.10%) Software Engineer
6 27 (9.61%) Java Engineer
7 26 (9.25%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.83%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.34%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.34%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
14 10 (3.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.95%) REST
2 39 (13.88%) Spring
3 38 (13.52%) Node.js
4 36 (12.81%) React
5 34 (12.10%) Spring Boot
6 29 (10.32%) AngularJS
7 26 (9.25%) RESTful
8 24 (8.54%) PySpark
9 21 (7.47%) .NET
10 18 (6.41%) Playwright
11 15 (5.34%) CSS
12 14 (4.98%) HTML
12 14 (4.98%) Vue
13 11 (3.91%) Next.js
13 11 (3.91%) OAuth
13 11 (3.91%) OAuth2
14 9 (3.20%) ARM Templates
14 9 (3.20%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.20%) Kafka
15 8 (2.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.39%) Product Ownership
3 31 (11.03%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.14%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.42%) Online Games
9 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.07%) NHS
10 3 (1.07%) PKI
11 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.12%) Linux
2 18 (6.41%) Apple iOS
3 14 (4.98%) Android
3 14 (4.98%) Windows
4 13 (4.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 146 (51.96%) Agile
3 115 (40.93%) DevOps
4 103 (36.65%) Mentoring
5 67 (23.84%) Microservices
6 66 (23.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (21.71%) Software Engineering
8 58 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 55 (19.57%) Scrum
9 55 (19.57%) TDD
10 46 (16.37%) Coaching
11 34 (12.10%) Continuous Integration
11 34 (12.10%) Observability
12 33 (11.74%) AI
13 32 (11.39%) Deployment Automation
13 32 (11.39%) Design Patterns
14 30 (10.68%) Clean Code
15 29 (10.32%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.99%) Java
2 90 (32.03%) Python
3 77 (27.40%) SQL
4 55 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 33 (11.74%) C#
6 32 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.27%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.56%) Swift
9 9 (3.20%) Bash
10 8 (2.85%) Go
10 8 (2.85%) Groovy
10 8 (2.85%) Ruby
11 7 (2.49%) C++
12 5 (1.78%) PHP
12 5 (1.78%) VB
13 4 (1.42%) C
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (8.90%) Degree
2 19 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.49%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.14%) HNC
7 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.07%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.79%) QA
2 27 (9.61%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.69%) WCAG
4 12 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (11.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (19.93%) Terraform
2 21 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.63%) Argo
4 5 (1.78%) Ansible
5 3 (1.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) Packer
6 2 (0.71%) Rancher
7 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 20 (7.12%) Databricks
2 15 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.27%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.20%) Google
6 8 (2.85%) Adobe
6 8 (2.85%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.78%) Apple
7 5 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.07%) IBM
8 3 (1.07%) Keysight
9 2 (0.71%) Braze
9 2 (0.71%) dotdigital
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle
10 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.36%) Confluent
10 1 (0.36%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.36%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.36%) Pega
10 1 (0.36%) SAP