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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 331 292 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.57% 3.10% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 3.43% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 231 129 214
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £71,991
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £77,250
England median annual salary £66,400 £64,075 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.63% +6.79% -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 14,754 8,507 13,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.12% 90.22% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,063 4,229 9,653
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +1 173 £63,750 -1.92% 67
North East +5 86 £52,500 +7.35% 19
Yorkshire -24 72 £69,310 +41.45% 36
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 13 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (3.02%) Apache
3 10 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.02%) Jupyter
4 8 (2.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.02%) AWS
2 107 (32.33%) Azure
3 54 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (13.29%) Serverless
5 26 (7.85%) GitHub
6 23 (6.95%) Amazon S3
7 18 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.14%) SaaS
9 16 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.93%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.93%) Firebase
12 12 (3.63%) GCP
13 11 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.02%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) HTTP
2 2 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.06%) MongoDB
2 29 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.44%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.53%) MySQL
5 15 (4.53%) Spark SQL
6 12 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.51%) Power BI
9 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.21%) Flink
10 4 (1.21%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.91%) Big Data
12 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.60%) Redis
13 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (16.01%) GitLab
2 31 (9.37%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.55%) Git
4 22 (6.65%) JIRA
5 18 (5.44%) fastlane
6 16 (4.83%) Postman
7 15 (4.53%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.32%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.32%) Maven
9 9 (2.72%) JUnit
9 9 (2.72%) Spock
10 7 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.11%) REST Assured
10 7 (2.11%) Storybook
11 6 (1.81%) JMeter
11 6 (1.81%) LabVIEW
11 6 (1.81%) Xcode
12 5 (1.51%) Gradle
12 5 (1.51%) Selenium
General
1 81 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 67 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 57 (17.22%) Finance
4 35 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.83%) Banking
7 12 (3.63%) Marketing
8 9 (2.72%) Electronics
8 9 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Publishing
10 7 (2.11%) Games
11 6 (1.81%) Law
11 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.81%) Retail
12 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.91%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.91%) Police
13 3 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (30.51%) Senior
2 61 (18.43%) Developer
3 60 (18.13%) Test Engineer
4 53 (16.01%) Lead
5 42 (12.69%) Software Engineer
6 31 (9.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 25 (7.55%) Java Engineer
9 23 (6.95%) Data Engineer
9 23 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 20 (6.04%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.14%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.83%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (4.53%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (3.63%) Analyst
15 12 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.22%) Node.js
2 48 (14.50%) AngularJS
3 47 (14.20%) Spring
4 42 (12.69%) REST
5 41 (12.39%) React
6 38 (11.48%) Spring Boot
7 27 (8.16%) PySpark
8 26 (7.85%) RESTful
9 22 (6.65%) .NET
10 21 (6.34%) CSS
11 20 (6.04%) HTML
12 19 (5.74%) Playwright
13 18 (5.44%) Vue
14 15 (4.53%) Next.js
15 11 (3.32%) GraphQL
15 11 (3.32%) OAuth
16 10 (3.02%) OAuth2
17 9 (2.72%) ARM Templates
17 9 (2.72%) Kafka
17 9 (2.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.57%) Product Ownership
3 31 (9.37%) Mobile App
4 15 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.02%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.11%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.51%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.21%) Online Games
12 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.91%) NHS
12 3 (0.91%) PKI
13 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.55%) Linux
2 20 (6.04%) Unix
2 20 (6.04%) Windows
3 17 (5.14%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.02%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (64.05%) CI/CD
2 184 (55.59%) Agile
3 141 (42.60%) DevOps
4 126 (38.07%) Mentoring
5 87 (26.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (25.68%) Software Engineering
7 75 (22.66%) Microservices
7 75 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (22.05%) Scrum
9 72 (21.75%) Coaching
10 71 (21.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 70 (21.15%) TDD
12 64 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (15.71%) Continuous Integration
14 46 (13.90%) AI
14 46 (13.90%) Observability
15 39 (11.78%) Design Patterns
16 37 (11.18%) Test Strategy
17 35 (10.57%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (10.57%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (41.99%) Java
2 108 (32.63%) Python
3 86 (25.98%) SQL
4 76 (22.96%) JavaScript
5 51 (15.41%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.88%) C#
7 14 (4.23%) Swift
8 11 (3.32%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.02%) Bash
10 9 (2.72%) Groovy
11 8 (2.42%) Ruby
12 7 (2.11%) Go
13 6 (1.81%) C++
14 5 (1.51%) PHP
14 5 (1.51%) VB
15 4 (1.21%) C
16 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.91%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.30%) Dart
17 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (9.06%) Degree
1 30 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.42%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.81%) HNC
6 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.62%) QA
2 35 (10.57%) Accessibility
3 21 (6.34%) WCAG
4 15 (4.53%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (14.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (17.82%) Terraform
2 31 (9.37%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.93%) Argo
4 4 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (1.21%) Grafana
5 3 (0.91%) Packer
6 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (6.95%) Databricks
2 17 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.23%) Splunk
4 13 (3.93%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.93%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.63%) Adobe
6 10 (3.02%) Google
7 9 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.11%) Apple
8 7 (2.11%) Pega
9 3 (0.91%) IBM
9 3 (0.91%) Keysight
10 2 (0.60%) Braze
10 2 (0.60%) dotdigital
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle
10 2 (0.60%) UiPath
11 1 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 1 (0.30%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.30%) SAP
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow