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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 86 106
Rank change year-on-year -53 +20 -53
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 174 304 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.77% 2.46% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 3.05% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 103 99 197
10th Percentile £39,150 £37,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +12.25%
75th Percentile £69,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £72,343 £82,519
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 8,351 9,969 7,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.99% 80.58% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 4,702 5,530
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,450 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,469 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -35 118 £60,000 +20.00% 179
Yorkshire -33 43 £55,000 +11.11% 66
North East -2 13 £50,000 -15.23% 35
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 7 (4.02%) Confluence
2 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.15%) Apache
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (49.43%) AWS
2 67 (38.51%) Azure
3 20 (11.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 19 (10.92%) GitHub
5 18 (10.34%) SaaS
6 16 (9.20%) Serverless
7 12 (6.90%) GCP
8 11 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.02%) PaaS
10 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.87%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.72%) Boomi
13 3 (1.72%) Datadog
13 3 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) Firewall
2 6 (3.45%) DHCP
2 6 (3.45%) DNS
2 6 (3.45%) VLAN
2 6 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.30%) HTTP
4 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.15%) Modbus
6 1 (0.57%) Network Security
6 1 (0.57%) SSH
6 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.17%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.17%) MySQL
4 7 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.15%) Power BI
6 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.15%) Tableau
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (28.16%) Selenium
2 42 (24.14%) Cucumber
3 41 (23.56%) GitLab
4 40 (22.99%) JIRA
5 35 (20.11%) SonarQube
6 32 (18.39%) Bitbucket
6 32 (18.39%) Maven
7 31 (17.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (5.75%) Cypress.io
9 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
10 7 (4.02%) Git
10 7 (4.02%) JMeter
11 4 (2.30%) Postman
12 3 (1.72%) Appium
12 3 (1.72%) JUnit
13 2 (1.15%) LoadRunner
13 2 (1.15%) Locust
13 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 63 (36.21%) Finance
2 36 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (18.97%) Retail
4 32 (18.39%) Banking
4 32 (18.39%) Social Skills
5 30 (17.24%) Corporate Banking
5 30 (17.24%) Investment Banking
6 22 (12.64%) Marketing
7 11 (6.32%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.17%) Games
9 7 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (2.30%) Law
12 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.15%) Back Office
13 2 (1.15%) Billing
13 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (32.18%) Developer
2 52 (29.89%) Senior
3 41 (23.56%) Software Engineer
4 36 (20.69%) Senior Developer
5 21 (12.07%) Lead
6 19 (10.92%) Salesforce Developer
6 19 (10.92%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 14 (8.05%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (5.17%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (3.45%) IT Support
10 6 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.45%) QA Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (28.74%) React
2 45 (25.86%) Spring
3 42 (24.14%) Spring Boot
4 41 (23.56%) CSS
4 41 (23.56%) HTML
5 40 (22.99%) Kafka
6 37 (21.26%) RESTful
7 35 (20.11%) Jest
8 33 (18.97%) CSS3
8 33 (18.97%) REST
9 31 (17.82%) HTML5
9 31 (17.82%) JPA
9 31 (17.82%) Redux
10 30 (17.24%) Sass
11 11 (6.32%) .NET
12 10 (5.75%) Node.js
13 8 (4.60%) Playwright
14 7 (4.02%) Amazon Corretto
15 6 (3.45%) Flask
15 6 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.26%) Product Ownership
2 31 (17.82%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.02%) e-Learning
4 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.45%) FMCG
5 6 (3.45%) Wiki
6 5 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.15%) Derivative
9 2 (1.15%) Equities
9 2 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.15%) NHS
9 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.32%) Windows
2 8 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.17%) Agile
2 86 (49.43%) CI/CD
3 84 (48.28%) Mentoring
4 82 (47.13%) DevOps
5 62 (35.63%) Software Engineering
6 46 (26.44%) Microservices
6 46 (26.44%) SDLC
6 46 (26.44%) User Experience
7 45 (25.86%) Front End Development
8 44 (25.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (24.71%) Containerisation
10 37 (21.26%) Migration
11 33 (18.97%) Performance Optimisation
11 33 (18.97%) Strategic Thinking
12 32 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (17.82%) Responsive Web Design
14 28 (16.09%) Process Improvement
14 28 (16.09%) TDD
15 25 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.95%) Java
2 56 (32.18%) JavaScript
3 55 (31.61%) SQL
4 42 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 30 (17.24%) Python
6 17 (9.77%) C#
7 10 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.87%) Scala
9 4 (2.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.72%) Go
11 2 (1.15%) C
11 2 (1.15%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Delphi
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (12.64%) DBS Check
2 10 (5.75%) Degree
3 9 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (32.18%) QA
2 36 (20.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.30%) GDPR
3 4 (2.30%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (34.48%) Docker
2 7 (4.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.07%) Terraform
3 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.87%) Grafana
5 3 (1.72%) Ansible
6 2 (1.15%) Control-M
6 2 (1.15%) Functional Safety
6 2 (1.15%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (17.24%) Solace
2 21 (12.07%) Salesforce
3 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.32%) Oracle
5 9 (5.17%) Databricks
6 6 (3.45%) Sophos
7 4 (2.30%) IBM
7 4 (2.30%) Palantir
8 3 (1.72%) Software AG
8 3 (1.72%) webMethods
9 2 (1.15%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.15%) Google
10 1 (0.57%) Adobe
10 1 (0.57%) Genesys
10 1 (0.57%) PayPal
10 1 (0.57%) Qualys
10 1 (0.57%) Samsung
10 1 (0.57%) Veracode