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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 119 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 -43 +25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 380 259 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 2.75% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.15% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 254 109 141
10th Percentile £40,725 £38,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -1.96%

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 16,528 8,231 11,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.46% 87.51% 78.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,384 4,135 6,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,004 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,267
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,136 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% -3.73% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,233
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 September 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 September 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 -8 190 £60,000 -2.04% 101
North East +18 104 £52,500 +50.00% 30
Yorkshire -6 86 £69,310 +39.32% 59
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 16 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (3.42%) Apache
2 13 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.42%) Jupyter
3 8 (2.11%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (42.63%) AWS
2 120 (31.58%) Azure
3 62 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (14.74%) Serverless
5 34 (8.95%) Amazon S3
6 29 (7.63%) GitHub
7 24 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.79%) GCP
10 20 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (5.00%) SaaS
12 16 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
13 15 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.95%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (3.68%) Firebase
15 13 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) HTTP
1 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.11%) MongoDB
2 23 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.79%) DynamoDB
4 19 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.68%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.11%) MySQL
10 6 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.32%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.32%) Metadata
12 4 (1.05%) Big Data
12 4 (1.05%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.05%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.05%) Redis
12 4 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 71 (18.68%) GitLab
2 42 (11.05%) Git
3 38 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.58%) JIRA
5 22 (5.79%) Cypress.io
6 17 (4.47%) Postman
7 16 (4.21%) fastlane
8 15 (3.95%) Maven
9 13 (3.42%) JUnit
9 13 (3.42%) Spock
10 12 (3.16%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.89%) SonarQube
12 10 (2.63%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.11%) JMeter
14 8 (2.11%) Selenium
14 8 (2.11%) Storybook
15 6 (1.58%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.58%) Xcode
16 5 (1.32%) Gradle
General
1 96 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.26%) Public Sector
3 72 (18.95%) Finance
4 42 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.95%) Banking
7 13 (3.42%) Marketing
8 10 (2.63%) Publishing
9 9 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.37%) Legal
10 8 (2.11%) Games
11 7 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.84%) Electronics
12 6 (1.58%) Law
12 6 (1.58%) Retail
13 5 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Police
14 3 (0.79%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (29.47%) Senior
2 68 (17.89%) Developer
3 59 (15.53%) Test Engineer
4 51 (13.42%) Lead
5 40 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (8.95%) Software Engineer
7 30 (7.89%) Data Engineer
8 29 (7.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 28 (7.37%) Senior Developer
10 24 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
10 24 (6.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.74%) Analyst
12 17 (4.47%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.21%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.95%) Databricks Engineer
15 14 (3.68%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 14 (3.68%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (3.42%) QA Engineer
17 12 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.42%) Terraform
2 68 (17.89%) Node.js
3 57 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 50 (13.16%) REST
5 47 (12.37%) Spring
6 41 (10.79%) React
7 35 (9.21%) PySpark
8 34 (8.95%) Playwright
8 34 (8.95%) Spring Boot
9 27 (7.11%) CSS
9 27 (7.11%) HTML
10 25 (6.58%) .NET
10 25 (6.58%) RESTful
11 17 (4.47%) Vue
12 16 (4.21%) Next.js
13 12 (3.16%) Kafka
14 11 (2.89%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.63%) React Native
16 9 (2.37%) ARM Templates
17 8 (2.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 43 (11.32%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.42%) Mobile App
4 20 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.37%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.58%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.05%) Online Games
11 3 (0.79%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.79%) PKI
11 3 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.16%) Linux
2 23 (6.05%) Windows
3 20 (5.26%) Unix
4 14 (3.68%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.37%) Android
6 4 (1.05%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (67.37%) CI/CD
2 216 (56.84%) Agile
3 171 (45.00%) DevOps
4 131 (34.47%) Mentoring
5 108 (28.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 96 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (25.26%) Software Engineering
7 77 (20.26%) Scrum
8 75 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 75 (19.74%) Microservices
9 73 (19.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (18.68%) Coaching
11 65 (17.11%) AI
11 65 (17.11%) TDD
12 63 (16.58%) Continuous Integration
13 61 (16.05%) Observability
14 52 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (12.11%) Software Testing
15 46 (12.11%) Test Strategy
16 43 (11.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 136 (35.79%) Java
2 118 (31.05%) Python
3 94 (24.74%) JavaScript
4 92 (24.21%) SQL
5 70 (18.42%) TypeScript
6 41 (10.79%) C#
7 15 (3.95%) Bash
8 13 (3.42%) Swift
9 12 (3.16%) Groovy
10 10 (2.63%) C++
11 9 (2.37%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.11%) Ruby
13 6 (1.58%) C
14 5 (1.32%) Go
14 5 (1.32%) PHP
15 3 (0.79%) Bicep
15 3 (0.79%) VB
15 3 (0.79%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.89%) Degree
4 17 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.63%) HNC
6 6 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.05%) HND
9 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.79%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) CISM
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.16%) QA
2 43 (11.32%) Accessibility
3 24 (6.32%) WCAG
4 23 (6.05%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.68%) GDPR
6 3 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (17.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.42%) Argo
3 7 (1.84%) Ansible
4 4 (1.05%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) Packer
5 3 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.79%) Puppet
6 2 (0.53%) Kibana
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 33 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.58%) Databricks
3 18 (4.74%) Splunk
4 16 (4.21%) AppDynamics
4 16 (4.21%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.42%) Adobe
6 11 (2.89%) Google
7 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.11%) Apple
9 7 (1.84%) Pega
10 4 (1.05%) Allen-Bradley
10 4 (1.05%) Confluent
10 4 (1.05%) Sage
10 4 (1.05%) Siemens
11 3 (0.79%) IBM
11 3 (0.79%) Keysight
12 2 (0.53%) dotdigital
12 2 (0.53%) Oracle
12 2 (0.53%) SAP
12 2 (0.53%) UiPath