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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 127 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -84 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 308 365 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.66% 2.02% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.46% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 145 243 297
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,748 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £84,056
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 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 28 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 28 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 -21 222 £55,000 - 190
Yorkshire +15 63 £52,723 -4.14% 106
North East +40 23 £59,002 -1.66% 52
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 60 (19.48%) Confluence
2 7 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.30%) SAS
4 3 (0.97%) Apache
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.32%) CICS
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Moodle
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Totara
5 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 164 (53.25%) Azure
2 163 (52.92%) AWS
3 95 (30.84%) GCP
4 13 (4.22%) Serverless
5 11 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (3.57%) GitHub
6 10 (3.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (1.62%) Apigee
8 5 (1.62%) SaaS
9 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.30%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.65%) Slack
11 2 (0.65%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.32%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.95%) SAN
3 5 (1.62%) Multicast
4 4 (1.30%) BGP
4 4 (1.30%) EIGRP
4 4 (1.30%) Network Security
4 4 (1.30%) OSPF
4 4 (1.30%) VPN
5 2 (0.65%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (39.61%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.17%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.52%) MongoDB
3 17 (5.52%) MySQL
4 11 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.25%) Cloud Spanner
6 7 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.95%) DB2
7 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.62%) Big Data
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 157 (50.97%) JIRA
2 139 (45.13%) Selenium
3 129 (41.88%) Cucumber
4 121 (39.29%) SonarQube
5 120 (38.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 118 (38.31%) GitLab
7 117 (37.99%) Maven
8 114 (37.01%) Bitbucket
9 33 (10.71%) Git
10 22 (7.14%) Jenkins
11 21 (6.82%) eggPlant
12 15 (4.87%) Postman
13 7 (2.27%) JMeter
13 7 (2.27%) JUnit
14 6 (1.95%) LoadRunner
15 5 (1.62%) Appium
15 5 (1.62%) SpecFlow
16 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
16 4 (1.30%) Fiddler
16 4 (1.30%) SoapUI
General
1 199 (64.61%) Finance
2 160 (51.95%) Banking
3 121 (39.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (25.32%) Retail
5 72 (23.38%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (23.38%) Investment Banking
6 64 (20.78%) Social Skills
7 16 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.90%) Games
9 11 (3.57%) Law
10 8 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.60%) Mandarin Language
10 8 (2.60%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.30%) Cantonese Language
14 3 (0.97%) Electronics
14 3 (0.97%) Military
15 2 (0.65%) Front Office
16 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (51.62%) Software Engineer
2 75 (24.35%) Senior
3 28 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 27 (8.77%) Analyst
5 26 (8.44%) Developer
6 22 (7.14%) Test Analyst
7 21 (6.82%) Software Analyst
7 21 (6.82%) Software Test Analyst
8 20 (6.49%) Lead
9 16 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.22%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Senior Software Test Analyst
12 11 (3.57%) Senior Test Analyst
13 9 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.60%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.60%) PHP Developer
14 8 (2.60%) Tester
15 7 (2.27%) Engineering Manager
15 7 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (47.73%) Spring Boot
2 146 (47.40%) React
3 137 (44.48%) Spring
4 128 (41.56%) CSS
5 127 (41.23%) HTML
6 122 (39.61%) Kafka
7 113 (36.69%) Redux
8 112 (36.36%) JPA
9 96 (31.17%) RESTful
10 82 (26.62%) REST
11 75 (24.35%) CSS3
11 75 (24.35%) HTML5
12 73 (23.70%) Jest
13 72 (23.38%) Sass
14 45 (14.61%) Hibernate
15 20 (6.49%) Node.js
16 14 (4.55%) Playwright
17 11 (3.57%) .NET
18 9 (2.92%) AngularJS
19 7 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 124 (40.26%) Product Ownership
2 115 (37.34%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 13 (4.22%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.27%) Replication
8 5 (1.62%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.62%) Wiki
9 4 (1.30%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.30%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.30%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.65%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.17%) Linux
2 14 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (1.62%) Unix
3 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (70.78%) Agile
2 179 (58.12%) Software Engineering
3 178 (57.79%) DevOps
4 175 (56.82%) CI/CD
5 147 (47.73%) Microservices
6 140 (45.45%) Containerisation
7 128 (41.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 123 (39.94%) SDLC
9 122 (39.61%) Front End Development
9 122 (39.61%) Mentoring
10 114 (37.01%) Performance Optimisation
11 98 (31.82%) User Experience
12 83 (26.95%) TDD
13 80 (25.97%) Migration
14 75 (24.35%) Responsive Web Design
15 72 (23.38%) Strategic Thinking
16 59 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (17.53%) Scrum
18 53 (17.21%) Clean Code
19 50 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 187 (60.71%) Java
2 163 (52.92%) JavaScript
3 149 (48.38%) SQL
4 100 (32.47%) TypeScript
5 58 (18.83%) Python
6 18 (5.84%) C#
7 12 (3.90%) PHP
8 8 (2.60%) Go
9 7 (2.27%) Scala
10 6 (1.95%) Rust
11 5 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.30%) Bash
12 4 (1.30%) C++
12 4 (1.30%) Groovy
12 4 (1.30%) R
13 2 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.32%) JCL
14 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (9.42%) Degree
2 24 (7.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.95%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.97%) OCP
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.65%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (47.08%) QA
2 76 (24.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.30%) Basel II
3 4 (1.30%) Basel III
3 4 (1.30%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (1.30%) GDPR
3 4 (1.30%) IFRS
3 4 (1.30%) IFRS 9
3 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 155 (50.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 161 (52.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.79%) Terraform
3 9 (2.92%) Ansible
4 8 (2.60%) Istio
5 5 (1.62%) Grafana
6 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.97%) Argo
7 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
8 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 112 (36.36%) Solace
2 21 (6.82%) Keysight
3 15 (4.87%) Oracle
4 11 (3.57%) Google
4 11 (3.57%) IBM
5 10 (3.25%) Cisco
5 10 (3.25%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.27%) VMware
7 4 (1.30%) Databricks
7 4 (1.30%) Palantir
8 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.97%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.97%) Twitter
9 1 (0.32%) Brocade
9 1 (0.32%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.32%) EMC
9 1 (0.32%) HP
9 1 (0.32%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow