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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 108 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 356 293 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.65% 3.06% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 3.41% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 245 128 208
10th Percentile £42,000 £32,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +8.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,435
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 15,187 8,584 11,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.34% 89.54% 78.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,359 4,294 8,024
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +2 184 £65,000 - 91
North East +7 95 £53,750 +34.38% 21
Yorkshire -15 77 £69,310 +41.45% 49
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 15 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (3.37%) Apache
3 12 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.37%) Jupyter
4 8 (2.25%) Confluence
5 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (44.38%) AWS
2 116 (32.58%) Azure
3 59 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (13.76%) Serverless
5 27 (7.58%) Amazon S3
6 26 (7.30%) GitHub
7 19 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (5.34%) SaaS
8 18 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (4.78%) GCP
10 16 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.93%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (3.93%) Firebase
12 13 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.65%) Azure AKS
13 12 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (3.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) HTTP
2 2 (0.56%) SMS
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.55%) MongoDB
2 30 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.58%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.90%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.21%) MySQL
5 15 (4.21%) Spark SQL
6 14 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.40%) Power BI
10 4 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.12%) Flink
10 4 (1.12%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.84%) Big Data
11 3 (0.84%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.84%) Redis
12 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 60 (16.85%) GitLab
2 34 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 33 (9.27%) Git
4 23 (6.46%) JIRA
5 18 (5.06%) fastlane
6 16 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.49%) Postman
7 13 (3.65%) Maven
8 11 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.09%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.09%) JUnit
8 11 (3.09%) Spock
9 9 (2.53%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.25%) Storybook
11 7 (1.97%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.69%) JMeter
12 6 (1.69%) LabVIEW
12 6 (1.69%) Xcode
13 5 (1.40%) Selenium
General
1 84 (23.60%) Public Sector
2 77 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.98%) Finance
4 41 (11.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.49%) Banking
7 12 (3.37%) Marketing
8 10 (2.81%) Publishing
9 9 (2.53%) Electronics
9 9 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.25%) Games
10 8 (2.25%) Legal
11 6 (1.69%) Law
11 6 (1.69%) Retail
12 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.84%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.84%) Police
14 3 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (30.06%) Senior
2 67 (18.82%) Developer
3 61 (17.13%) Test Engineer
4 54 (15.17%) Lead
5 42 (11.80%) Software Engineer
6 34 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.15%) Senior Developer
8 26 (7.30%) Data Engineer
9 25 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 24 (6.74%) Java Engineer
11 22 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (6.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.78%) Java Developer
13 15 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (3.65%) Analyst
14 13 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.65%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (17.70%) Node.js
2 54 (15.17%) AngularJS
3 47 (13.20%) Spring
4 45 (12.64%) REST
5 43 (12.08%) React
6 36 (10.11%) Spring Boot
7 29 (8.15%) PySpark
7 29 (8.15%) RESTful
8 27 (7.58%) Playwright
9 23 (6.46%) .NET
10 22 (6.18%) CSS
11 21 (5.90%) HTML
12 19 (5.34%) Vue
13 15 (4.21%) Next.js
14 12 (3.37%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.81%) Kafka
15 10 (2.81%) OAuth
15 10 (2.81%) React Native
16 9 (2.53%) ARM Templates
16 9 (2.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.96%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.99%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.93%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.25%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.12%) Online Games
10 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.84%) NHS
11 3 (0.84%) PKI
11 3 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.87%) Linux
2 22 (6.18%) Windows
3 20 (5.62%) Unix
4 16 (4.49%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.53%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 203 (57.02%) Agile
3 157 (44.10%) DevOps
4 127 (35.67%) Mentoring
5 94 (26.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (26.40%) Software Engineering
6 79 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (21.91%) Microservices
8 76 (21.35%) Scrum
9 75 (21.07%) Coaching
9 75 (21.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (19.94%) TDD
11 67 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (16.01%) Continuous Integration
13 55 (15.45%) AI
14 49 (13.76%) Observability
15 41 (11.52%) Test Strategy
16 39 (10.96%) Clean Code
16 39 (10.96%) Design Patterns
16 39 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 144 (40.45%) Java
2 114 (32.02%) Python
3 90 (25.28%) SQL
4 83 (23.31%) JavaScript
5 59 (16.57%) TypeScript
6 41 (11.52%) C#
7 15 (4.21%) Swift
8 11 (3.09%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.81%) Bash
9 10 (2.81%) Groovy
10 8 (2.25%) C++
10 8 (2.25%) Ruby
11 7 (1.97%) Go
12 5 (1.40%) C
12 5 (1.40%) PHP
12 5 (1.40%) VB
13 4 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.84%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.28%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.43%) Degree
2 30 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.69%) HNC
5 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.84%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (19.10%) QA
2 38 (10.67%) Accessibility
3 22 (6.18%) WCAG
4 17 (4.78%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (16.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (17.70%) Terraform
2 33 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.65%) Argo
4 4 (1.12%) Ansible
4 4 (1.12%) Grafana
5 3 (0.84%) Packer
6 1 (0.28%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.46%) Databricks
3 16 (4.49%) Dynatrace
3 16 (4.49%) Splunk
4 15 (4.21%) AppDynamics
5 13 (3.65%) Adobe
6 11 (3.09%) Google
7 9 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.25%) Apple
9 7 (1.97%) Pega
10 3 (0.84%) Confluent
10 3 (0.84%) IBM
10 3 (0.84%) Keysight
10 3 (0.84%) Oracle
11 2 (0.56%) Braze
11 2 (0.56%) dotdigital
11 2 (0.56%) UiPath
12 1 (0.28%) DevExpress
12 1 (0.28%) Sage
12 1 (0.28%) SAP