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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 94 118
Rank change year-on-year -10 +24 -82
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 288 289 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.45% 3.56% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.81% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 206 126 237
10th Percentile £40,625 £34,375 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £59,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +8.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,938 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £97,528 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 13,647 7,594 15,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.85% 93.55% 79.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,117 3,646 11,830
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -13 152 £61,250 -5.77% 68
Yorkshire -35 69 £72,500 +43.72% 31
North East -4 67 £52,500 -4.55% 19
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 8 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 8 (2.78%) Apache
1 8 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.78%) Jupyter
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (41.67%) AWS
2 95 (32.99%) Azure
3 54 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (13.89%) Serverless
5 23 (7.99%) GitHub
6 18 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.56%) SaaS
8 15 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (4.86%) Azure AKS
9 14 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.17%) Firebase
11 12 (4.17%) GCP
12 11 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.13%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) HTTP
2 2 (0.69%) SMS
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.03%) MongoDB
3 24 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.21%) Spark SQL
5 14 (4.86%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.51%) MySQL
7 11 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.39%) Flink
10 4 (1.39%) Power BI
11 3 (1.04%) Big Data
11 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.35%) Redis
13 1 (0.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (15.97%) GitLab
2 30 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.29%) Git
4 18 (6.25%) JIRA
5 16 (5.56%) fastlane
5 16 (5.56%) Postman
6 12 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.13%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.43%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.08%) JMeter
9 6 (2.08%) JUnit
9 6 (2.08%) LabVIEW
9 6 (2.08%) Maven
9 6 (2.08%) Selenium
9 6 (2.08%) Spock
9 6 (2.08%) Xcode
10 5 (1.74%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.74%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.74%) Gradle
General
1 65 (22.57%) Public Sector
2 54 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.93%) Finance
4 32 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.86%) Banking
7 13 (4.51%) Marketing
8 9 (3.13%) Electronics
8 9 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.43%) Games
11 6 (2.08%) Legal
12 5 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.04%) French Language
14 3 (1.04%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.04%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (1.04%) Publishing
14 3 (1.04%) Retail
14 3 (1.04%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 80 (27.78%) Senior
2 61 (21.18%) Developer
3 53 (18.40%) Lead
3 53 (18.40%) Test Engineer
4 37 (12.85%) Software Engineer
5 27 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 26 (9.03%) Senior Developer
7 22 (7.64%) Data Engineer
8 19 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (5.21%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.47%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.58%) REST
1 42 (14.58%) Spring
2 39 (13.54%) Node.js
3 37 (12.85%) React
4 35 (12.15%) Spring Boot
5 33 (11.46%) AngularJS
6 26 (9.03%) RESTful
7 25 (8.68%) PySpark
8 22 (7.64%) .NET
9 17 (5.90%) Playwright
10 15 (5.21%) CSS
10 15 (5.21%) Vue
11 14 (4.86%) HTML
12 12 (4.17%) Next.js
13 11 (3.82%) OAuth
13 11 (3.82%) OAuth2
14 9 (3.13%) ARM Templates
14 9 (3.13%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.13%) Kafka
15 8 (2.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.81%) Product Ownership
3 32 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.08%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.08%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.39%) Online Games
9 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.04%) NHS
9 3 (1.04%) PKI
10 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.60%) Apple iOS
1 19 (6.60%) Linux
2 14 (4.86%) Android
2 14 (4.86%) Windows
3 13 (4.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (59.03%) CI/CD
2 153 (53.13%) Agile
3 119 (41.32%) DevOps
4 106 (36.81%) Mentoring
5 69 (23.96%) Microservices
6 68 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 64 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (20.49%) Scrum
9 59 (20.49%) TDD
10 58 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (17.71%) Coaching
12 37 (12.85%) Observability
13 36 (12.50%) AI
13 36 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 32 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (11.11%) Design Patterns
15 31 (10.76%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 123 (42.71%) Java
2 92 (31.94%) Python
3 77 (26.74%) SQL
4 58 (20.14%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 33 (11.46%) C#
7 12 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 11 (3.82%) Swift
9 9 (3.13%) Bash
10 8 (2.78%) Groovy
10 8 (2.78%) Ruby
11 7 (2.43%) C++
11 7 (2.43%) Go
12 5 (1.74%) PHP
12 5 (1.74%) VB
13 4 (1.39%) C
14 2 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (9.03%) Degree
2 21 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.43%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.08%) HNC
7 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.04%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.04%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.01%) QA
2 30 (10.42%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.90%) WCAG
4 13 (4.51%) Data Quality
5 12 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (13.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (19.44%) Terraform
2 23 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.51%) Argo
4 4 (1.39%) Ansible
5 3 (1.04%) Grafana
5 3 (1.04%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (6.94%) Databricks
2 15 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.51%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.47%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.13%) Google
7 8 (2.78%) Adobe
7 8 (2.78%) Splunk
8 6 (2.08%) Apple
9 3 (1.04%) IBM
9 3 (1.04%) Keysight
10 2 (0.69%) Braze
10 2 (0.69%) dotdigital
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle
11 1 (0.35%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.35%) Confluent
11 1 (0.35%) DevExpress
11 1 (0.35%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.35%) Pega
11 1 (0.35%) SAP