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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 79 107
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 137 305 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 2.80% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 3.28% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 108 111 175
10th Percentile £39,525 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £69,000 £66,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,367 £71,991 £82,529
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 8,568 9,294 6,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.60% 85.43% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,448 4,447 5,165
10th Percentile £26,885 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,750
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 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -33 79 £60,000 +26.98% 90
Yorkshire -46 44 £55,000 +11.11% 68
North East -14 14 £52,600 -12.33% 23
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 7 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.19%) Confluence
3 3 (2.19%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.73%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.73%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.12%) AWS
2 42 (30.66%) Azure
3 23 (16.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 22 (16.06%) SaaS
5 15 (10.95%) GitHub
6 13 (9.49%) GCP
7 11 (8.03%) Serverless
8 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.11%) PaaS
9 6 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.19%) Boomi
12 3 (2.19%) Datadog
12 3 (2.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Firewall
2 6 (4.38%) DHCP
2 6 (4.38%) DNS
2 6 (4.38%) VLAN
2 6 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (3.65%) HTTP
4 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.73%) Modbus
5 1 (0.73%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) SSH
5 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.30%) MongoDB
1 10 (7.30%) MySQL
1 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.46%) PostHog
5 2 (1.46%) Redis
5 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.46%) Tableau
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.73%) Big Data
6 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Selenium
2 9 (6.57%) Cucumber
2 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.57%) JMeter
3 8 (5.84%) GitLab
4 7 (5.11%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.38%) Git
5 6 (4.38%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.92%) Appium
6 4 (2.92%) Postman
7 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.19%) JUnit
7 3 (2.19%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.19%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.46%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.46%) Gatling
8 2 (1.46%) Locust
8 2 (1.46%) Maven
8 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.79%) Marketing
3 19 (13.87%) Finance
4 10 (7.30%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Games
6 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.65%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Back Office
7 2 (1.46%) Billing
7 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.46%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Automotive
8 1 (0.73%) Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.73%) Publishing
8 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (37.23%) Developer
2 49 (35.77%) Senior
3 33 (24.09%) Senior Developer
4 24 (17.52%) Lead
5 21 (15.33%) Salesforce Developer
5 21 (15.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 10 (7.30%) QA Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.57%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) QA Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (4.38%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) IT Support
10 6 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.95%) React
2 13 (9.49%) .NET
3 9 (6.57%) Spring
4 8 (5.84%) CSS
4 8 (5.84%) HTML
4 8 (5.84%) Node.js
4 8 (5.84%) Playwright
5 6 (4.38%) Django
5 6 (4.38%) Flask
5 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.65%) FastAPI
6 5 (3.65%) Kafka
6 5 (3.65%) Middleware
6 5 (3.65%) RESTful
6 5 (3.65%) Vue
7 4 (2.92%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.92%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.19%) QML
8 3 (2.19%) Qt
8 3 (2.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.38%) FMCG
5 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.19%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.19%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.46%) NHS
8 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.76%) Windows
2 8 (5.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.92%) Linux
4 1 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.80%) Mentoring
2 55 (40.15%) CI/CD
3 52 (37.96%) Agile
4 43 (31.39%) DevOps
5 29 (21.17%) Process Improvement
6 28 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (17.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.06%) Business Analysis
11 21 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (13.14%) Coaching
12 18 (13.14%) TDD
13 17 (12.41%) Business Transformation
13 17 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (10.95%) SDLC
15 13 (9.49%) API Testing
15 13 (9.49%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (9.49%) Microservices
16 12 (8.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.90%) Java
1 30 (21.90%) Python
2 25 (18.25%) SQL
3 23 (16.79%) C#
3 23 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.30%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.38%) Scala
7 4 (2.92%) Go
8 3 (2.19%) C++
8 3 (2.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.46%) C
10 1 (0.73%) Bash
10 1 (0.73%) Delphi
10 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) DBS Check
2 9 (6.57%) Degree
3 7 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.92%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.82%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.19%) GDPR
3 3 (2.19%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.46%) WCAG
5 1 (0.73%) GRC
5 1 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (15.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) Terraform
2 15 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.11%) Grafana
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.92%) Ansible
5 3 (2.19%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.46%) Control-M
7 1 (0.73%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Salesforce
2 19 (13.87%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.76%) Oracle
4 10 (7.30%) Databricks
5 6 (4.38%) Sophos
6 5 (3.65%) Palantir
7 3 (2.19%) IBM
7 3 (2.19%) Software AG
7 3 (2.19%) webMethods
8 2 (1.46%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.73%) Adobe
9 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.73%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.73%) Genesys
9 1 (0.73%) Google
9 1 (0.73%) Samsung
9 1 (0.73%) SAP
9 1 (0.73%) Siebel
9 1 (0.73%) Veracode