Test Automation Jobs in the North of England

Automated Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 126 44
Rank change year-on-year -9 -82 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 212 358 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 2.07% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.47% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 160 238 337
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,219 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,655 £56,250 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.44% +6.38%
75th Percentile £77,813 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £80,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 10,358 14,485 16,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.54% 83.83% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,755 11,127 8,023
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North of England

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North of England

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -47 114 £52,500 -4.55% 153
Yorkshire +39 71 £53,973 -1.87% 72
North East +41 27 £59,002 -1.66% 37
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.55%) Confluence
2 7 (3.30%) SAS
3 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) Apache
4 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.94%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.47%) CICS
6 1 (0.47%) Moodle
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) Totara
6 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.25%) GCP
2 54 (25.47%) Azure
3 42 (19.81%) AWS
4 10 (4.72%) Azure Machine Learning
4 10 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (4.25%) GitHub
5 9 (4.25%) Serverless
6 7 (3.30%) Apigee
6 7 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.36%) SaaS
8 4 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.42%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.83%) SAN
3 5 (2.36%) Multicast
4 4 (1.89%) BGP
4 4 (1.89%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.89%) EIGRP
4 4 (1.89%) Network Security
4 4 (1.89%) OSPF
4 4 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.49%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.55%) MySQL
3 11 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.72%) Cloud Spanner
5 9 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.83%) DB2
6 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.36%) Big Data
7 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (20.75%) Git
2 43 (20.28%) JIRA
3 27 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 26 (12.26%) Selenium
5 21 (9.91%) eggPlant
6 18 (8.49%) Postman
7 13 (6.13%) Cucumber
7 13 (6.13%) JUnit
8 12 (5.66%) SonarQube
9 11 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (4.25%) JMeter
11 8 (3.77%) Maven
12 6 (2.83%) LoadRunner
13 5 (2.36%) Appium
13 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
13 5 (2.36%) SpecFlow
14 4 (1.89%) Fiddler
14 4 (1.89%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (1.89%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.89%) TestRail
General
1 89 (41.98%) Finance
2 68 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 56 (26.42%) Banking
4 16 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.66%) Games
7 10 (4.72%) Law
8 9 (4.25%) Legal
9 8 (3.77%) Retail
10 7 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.83%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.36%) Electronics
13 4 (1.89%) Cantonese Language
14 3 (1.42%) Military
14 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.94%) Front Office
15 2 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (36.32%) Senior
2 50 (23.58%) Software Engineer
3 31 (14.62%) Analyst
4 30 (14.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (11.32%) Test Analyst
6 23 (10.85%) Developer
6 23 (10.85%) Lead
7 21 (9.91%) Software Analyst
7 21 (9.91%) Software Test Analyst
8 16 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (6.60%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Test Analyst
11 12 (5.66%) Test Engineer
12 11 (5.19%) Senior Software Test Analyst
12 11 (5.19%) Tester
13 10 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (4.25%) PHP Developer
14 9 (4.25%) Test Automation Engineer
15 8 (3.77%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.51%) Spring Boot
2 32 (15.09%) React
3 23 (10.85%) RESTful
3 23 (10.85%) Spring
4 19 (8.96%) CSS
5 18 (8.49%) HTML
5 18 (8.49%) Node.js
6 15 (7.08%) .NET
7 14 (6.60%) Playwright
8 13 (6.13%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.19%) REST
10 7 (3.30%) Hibernate
10 7 (3.30%) JWT
10 7 (3.30%) OAuth
10 7 (3.30%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.30%) SOAP
11 6 (2.83%) jQuery
11 6 (2.83%) Kafka
11 6 (2.83%) LAMP
11 6 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
1 18 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.13%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.77%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.77%) Cyber Security Posture
5 8 (3.77%) Market Risk
5 8 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.30%) Replication
7 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.89%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.32%) Linux
2 14 (6.60%) Windows
3 7 (3.30%) Unix
4 5 (2.36%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.94%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (49.53%) Agile
2 77 (36.32%) CI/CD
2 77 (36.32%) DevOps
3 67 (31.60%) Software Engineering
4 64 (30.19%) Mentoring
5 55 (25.94%) Scrum
6 48 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.75%) Software Testing
8 38 (17.92%) TDD
9 37 (17.45%) Continuous Integration
10 36 (16.98%) Microservices
11 31 (14.62%) Code Quality
12 29 (13.68%) Containerisation
13 27 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (11.79%) Coaching
15 23 (10.85%) Acceptance Criteria
15 23 (10.85%) BDD
15 23 (10.85%) SDLC
15 23 (10.85%) Waterfall
16 22 (10.38%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.96%) Java
2 60 (28.30%) Python
3 54 (25.47%) JavaScript
4 40 (18.87%) SQL
5 24 (11.32%) C#
5 24 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.13%) PHP
7 7 (3.30%) Go
7 7 (3.30%) R
8 6 (2.83%) Rust
8 6 (2.83%) Scala
9 5 (2.36%) Groovy
9 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.89%) Bash
10 4 (1.89%) C
10 4 (1.89%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) JCL
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.62%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.83%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.42%) OCP
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.94%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.45%) QA
2 17 (8.02%) GDPR
3 8 (3.77%) Basel III
3 8 (3.77%) IFRS
3 8 (3.77%) IFRS 9
3 8 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.77%) NIST
4 7 (3.30%) Basel II
4 7 (3.30%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (3.30%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) SEPA
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (18.40%) Docker
2 5 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.89%) Firmware
3 4 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.32%) Terraform
3 10 (4.72%) Ansible
3 10 (4.72%) Istio
4 5 (2.36%) Grafana
5 4 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.42%) Argo
6 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.47%) cPanel
7 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.47%) Packer
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (9.91%) Keysight
2 14 (6.60%) Oracle
3 11 (5.19%) Google
3 11 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.72%) Cisco
4 10 (4.72%) IBM
5 7 (3.30%) VMware
6 4 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.42%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.42%) Databricks
7 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.42%) Palantir
7 3 (1.42%) Twitter
8 2 (0.94%) HP
8 2 (0.94%) SAP
9 1 (0.47%) Brocade
9 1 (0.47%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.47%) EMC
9 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.47%) Siebel