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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 106 110
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -43
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 325 298 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 3.17% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.50% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 225 132 222
10th Percentile £41,550 £32,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £78,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 14,621 8,510 14,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.17% 90.43% 79.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,949 4,209 10,751
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,106 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -6 171 £62,500 -3.85% 102
North East -4 85 £52,500 -0.59% 31
Yorkshire -25 69 £69,310 +41.45% 81
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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (3.08%) Apache
2 10 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 7 (2.15%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (44.31%) AWS
2 106 (32.62%) Azure
3 54 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (13.54%) Serverless
5 25 (7.69%) GitHub
6 23 (7.08%) Amazon S3
7 18 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.23%) SaaS
9 16 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.31%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.69%) Firebase
13 11 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.38%) GCP
14 10 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.62%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.62%) MongoDB
3 24 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.85%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.62%) MySQL
5 15 (4.62%) Spark SQL
6 11 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.46%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.54%) Power BI
9 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.23%) Flink
10 4 (1.23%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
12 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.62%) Redis
13 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 53 (16.31%) GitLab
2 30 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.38%) Git
4 21 (6.46%) JIRA
5 18 (5.54%) fastlane
6 16 (4.92%) Postman
7 14 (4.31%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.38%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.77%) JUnit
9 9 (2.77%) Maven
9 9 (2.77%) Spock
10 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.15%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.85%) JMeter
11 6 (1.85%) LabVIEW
11 6 (1.85%) Xcode
12 5 (1.54%) Android Studio
12 5 (1.54%) Gradle
12 5 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (24.31%) Public Sector
2 65 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 56 (17.23%) Finance
4 34 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.92%) Banking
7 13 (4.00%) Marketing
8 9 (2.77%) Electronics
8 9 (2.77%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Legal
10 7 (2.15%) Games
11 6 (1.85%) Law
11 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.54%) Publishing
12 5 (1.54%) Retail
13 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 98 (30.15%) Senior
2 60 (18.46%) Test Engineer
3 59 (18.15%) Developer
4 51 (15.69%) Lead
5 41 (12.62%) Software Engineer
6 30 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 25 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 23 (7.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 22 (6.77%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.85%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (5.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.23%) Java Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (3.69%) Analyst
15 12 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.62%) Node.js
2 47 (14.46%) Spring
3 46 (14.15%) AngularJS
4 41 (12.62%) REST
5 40 (12.31%) React
6 38 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 27 (8.31%) PySpark
7 27 (8.31%) RESTful
8 23 (7.08%) .NET
9 20 (6.15%) CSS
10 19 (5.85%) HTML
11 18 (5.54%) Playwright
11 18 (5.54%) Vue
12 14 (4.31%) Next.js
13 10 (3.08%) OAuth
14 9 (2.77%) ARM Templates
14 9 (2.77%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.77%) Kafka
14 9 (2.77%) OAuth2
15 8 (2.46%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.23%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.77%) Product Ownership
3 30 (9.23%) Mobile App
4 15 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.08%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.15%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.23%) Online Games
12 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.92%) NHS
12 3 (0.92%) PKI
13 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.69%) Linux
2 19 (5.85%) Unix
2 19 (5.85%) Windows
3 17 (5.23%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.08%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (63.38%) CI/CD
2 182 (56.00%) Agile
3 141 (43.38%) DevOps
4 124 (38.15%) Mentoring
5 84 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (25.23%) Software Engineering
7 76 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (23.08%) Microservices
9 71 (21.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 71 (21.85%) Scrum
10 70 (21.54%) Coaching
11 68 (20.92%) TDD
12 65 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
14 46 (14.15%) Observability
15 43 (13.23%) AI
16 37 (11.38%) Design Patterns
17 36 (11.08%) Deployment Automation
18 35 (10.77%) Architectural Patterns
18 35 (10.77%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 137 (42.15%) Java
2 107 (32.92%) Python
3 86 (26.46%) SQL
4 73 (22.46%) JavaScript
5 47 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.08%) C#
7 13 (4.00%) Swift
8 10 (3.08%) Bash
8 10 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.77%) Groovy
10 8 (2.46%) Go
10 8 (2.46%) Ruby
11 6 (1.85%) C++
12 5 (1.54%) PHP
12 5 (1.54%) VB
13 4 (1.23%) C
14 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (9.54%) Degree
2 30 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.85%) HNC
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.62%) QA
2 32 (9.85%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.85%) WCAG
4 15 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (14.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (18.46%) Terraform
2 32 (9.85%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.00%) Argo
4 5 (1.54%) Ansible
5 4 (1.23%) Grafana
6 3 (0.92%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (7.08%) Databricks
2 17 (5.23%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.31%) Splunk
4 13 (4.00%) AppDynamics
4 13 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.08%) Adobe
5 10 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.77%) Google
7 7 (2.15%) Pega
8 6 (1.85%) Apple
9 3 (0.92%) IBM
9 3 (0.92%) Keysight
10 2 (0.62%) Braze
10 2 (0.62%) dotdigital
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle
11 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.31%) DevExpress
11 1 (0.31%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.31%) SAP
11 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow