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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 74 96
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 -45
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 242 325 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.65% 2.54% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 3.17% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 92 108 219
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,188 £45,000 £46,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,500 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 7,963 10,266 7,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.30% 80.17% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,091 4,961 5,941
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -9 195 £61,500 +17.14% 82
Yorkshire -35 35 £55,000 +11.11% 36
North East -4 12 £30,750 -46.95% 31
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 47 (19.42%) Confluence
2 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.65%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 159 (65.70%) AWS
2 147 (60.74%) Azure
3 49 (20.25%) GCP
4 20 (8.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 16 (6.61%) GitHub
5 16 (6.61%) Serverless
6 15 (6.20%) SaaS
7 14 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.07%) PaaS
10 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.65%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.89%) Firewall
2 6 (2.48%) DHCP
2 6 (2.48%) DNS
2 6 (2.48%) VLAN
2 6 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 2 (0.83%) Modbus
4 1 (0.41%) Network Security
4 1 (0.41%) SSH
4 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (49.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.13%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.31%) MySQL
4 8 (3.31%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.24%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.83%) Power BI
7 2 (0.83%) Tableau
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 131 (54.13%) Selenium
2 122 (50.41%) GitLab
3 121 (50.00%) JIRA
4 120 (49.59%) Cucumber
5 117 (48.35%) SonarQube
6 114 (47.11%) Bitbucket
6 114 (47.11%) Maven
7 113 (46.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (4.13%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.31%) Jenkins
10 6 (2.48%) Git
11 4 (1.65%) JMeter
11 4 (1.65%) Postman
12 2 (0.83%) Appium
12 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.83%) Gatling
12 2 (0.83%) JUnit
12 2 (0.83%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 147 (60.74%) Finance
2 115 (47.52%) Banking
2 115 (47.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (30.99%) Retail
4 72 (29.75%) Corporate Banking
4 72 (29.75%) Investment Banking
5 23 (9.50%) Social Skills
6 22 (9.09%) Marketing
7 11 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.13%) Games
9 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.65%) Law
10 4 (1.65%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (51.24%) Software Engineer
2 53 (21.90%) Developer
3 50 (20.66%) Senior
4 34 (14.05%) Senior Developer
5 19 (7.85%) Lead
5 19 (7.85%) Salesforce Developer
5 19 (7.85%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 16 (6.61%) Java Developer
7 10 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (3.31%) Test Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Data Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (2.48%) IT Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) IT Support
9 6 (2.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Java Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Lead Test Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (2.48%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (54.13%) React
2 124 (51.24%) Spring
2 124 (51.24%) Spring Boot
3 123 (50.83%) Kafka
4 122 (50.41%) CSS
4 122 (50.41%) HTML
5 113 (46.69%) JPA
5 113 (46.69%) Redux
6 81 (33.47%) RESTful
7 77 (31.82%) Jest
8 76 (31.40%) CSS3
9 75 (30.99%) REST
10 74 (30.58%) HTML5
11 72 (29.75%) Sass
12 41 (16.94%) Hibernate
13 11 (4.55%) .NET
14 8 (3.31%) Amazon Corretto
14 8 (3.31%) Node.js
15 6 (2.48%) Playwright
16 5 (2.07%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 119 (49.17%) Product Ownership
2 112 (46.28%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.31%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.31%) e-Learning
4 6 (2.48%) FMCG
4 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.48%) Wiki
5 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.83%) Equities
8 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.83%) NHS
8 2 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.72%) Windows
2 8 (3.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (69.42%) Agile
2 156 (64.46%) CI/CD
3 153 (63.22%) DevOps
4 140 (57.85%) Software Engineering
5 128 (52.89%) Microservices
6 127 (52.48%) Front End Development
6 127 (52.48%) SDLC
7 124 (51.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 122 (50.41%) Containerisation
9 117 (48.35%) Mentoring
10 116 (47.93%) Performance Optimisation
11 92 (38.02%) User Experience
12 79 (32.64%) Migration
13 74 (30.58%) Responsive Web Design
14 73 (30.17%) Strategic Thinking
15 68 (28.10%) TDD
16 61 (25.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (22.31%) Clean Code
18 33 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
19 27 (11.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 153 (63.22%) Java
2 135 (55.79%) SQL
3 134 (55.37%) JavaScript
4 84 (34.71%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.92%) Python
6 17 (7.02%) C#
7 10 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.07%) Scala
9 4 (1.65%) PHP
10 3 (1.24%) Go
11 2 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 8 (3.31%) Degree
3 7 (2.89%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.07%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (55.37%) QA
2 74 (30.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.65%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 138 (57.02%) Docker
2 7 (2.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 131 (54.13%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.85%) Terraform
3 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.24%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) Control-M
5 2 (0.83%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.83%) Grafana
5 2 (0.83%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (46.28%) Solace
2 21 (8.68%) Salesforce
3 14 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.89%) Databricks
5 6 (2.48%) Sophos
6 5 (2.07%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.83%) Google
8 2 (0.83%) Palantir
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.41%) PayPal
9 1 (0.41%) Qualys
9 1 (0.41%) Veracode