Test Automation Jobs in the North West

Automated Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 111 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 -32 -40
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 201 90 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.59% 2.26% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.38% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 75 76 282
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,875 £34,325
25th Percentile £40,748 £42,875 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,748 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £73,075 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,694 £82,548 £75,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,931 3,777 8,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 89.42% 94.85% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,540 2,554 4,929
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,716 £42,016 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in the North West.

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 11 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North West

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 December 2024. 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
Manchester +23 114 £56,250 -2.17% 44
Merseyside +23 22 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Lancashire -49 22 £50,055 +25.14% 4
Cumbria -62 22 £43,248 -47.58% 1
Cheshire +2 19 £45,000 -30.77% 15
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (1.99%) CICS
2 2 (1.00%) CMS
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.50%) Drupal
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Magento
1 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.83%) AWS
2 40 (19.90%) OCI
3 39 (19.40%) Amazon ECR
3 39 (19.40%) Amazon EKS
3 39 (19.40%) Amazon S3
3 39 (19.40%) Route 53
4 38 (18.91%) IBM Cloud
5 29 (14.43%) Azure
6 9 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.49%) GCP
7 5 (2.49%) SaaS
8 4 (1.99%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.99%) Serverless
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.50%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) 5G
1 5 (2.49%) Bluetooth
1 5 (2.49%) GSM
1 5 (2.49%) LTE
1 5 (2.49%) UMTS
1 5 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (2.49%) Wireless
2 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.40%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.96%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.48%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.48%) MySQL
4 8 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) JIRA
2 21 (10.45%) eggPlant
3 19 (9.45%) Selenium
4 10 (4.98%) Git
5 9 (4.48%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.99%) JMeter
6 6 (2.99%) JUnit
7 5 (2.49%) Postman
7 5 (2.49%) TestNG
8 4 (1.99%) Rational Functional Tester
8 4 (1.99%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.49%) TestRail
10 2 (1.00%) Appium
10 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.00%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.00%) LabVIEW
10 2 (1.00%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
General
1 61 (30.35%) Public Sector
2 43 (21.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (18.41%) Social Skills
4 20 (9.95%) Finance
5 17 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.47%) Legal
6 11 (5.47%) Retail
7 10 (4.98%) Automotive
8 8 (3.98%) Law
9 7 (3.48%) Tech for Good
10 5 (2.49%) Games
11 4 (1.99%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Electronics
12 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (1.00%) Military
12 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (35.82%) Senior
2 39 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (17.91%) Analyst
4 32 (15.92%) Senior DevOps
4 32 (15.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 27 (13.43%) Test Analyst
6 24 (11.94%) Developer
7 21 (10.45%) Software Analyst
7 21 (10.45%) Software Test Analyst
8 20 (9.95%) Tester
9 17 (8.46%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (7.96%) Senior Test Analyst
11 14 (6.97%) Development Manager
11 14 (6.97%) Software Development Manager
11 14 (6.97%) Software Manager
12 13 (6.47%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.47%) Senior Software Test Analyst
14 9 (4.48%) QA Analyst
15 8 (3.98%) Lead
15 8 (3.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.94%) .NET
2 13 (6.47%) CSS
2 13 (6.47%) HTML
3 12 (5.97%) AngularJS
3 12 (5.97%) Web Services
4 11 (5.47%) .NET Framework
4 11 (5.47%) RESTful
5 8 (3.98%) Node.js
5 8 (3.98%) React
5 8 (3.98%) XML
6 6 (2.99%) Spring
7 5 (2.49%) JSON
7 5 (2.49%) Vue
8 4 (1.99%) Ajax
8 4 (1.99%) Jest
8 4 (1.99%) LDAP
8 4 (1.99%) Playwright
8 4 (1.99%) React Native
8 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.49%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.90%) e-Learning
2 38 (18.91%) Blockchain
2 38 (18.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (6.47%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.49%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.49%) Satnav
6 4 (1.99%) CMDB
6 4 (1.99%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.99%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.99%) VSAM
7 3 (1.49%) Life Science
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.00%) CUDA
8 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile Games
9 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Android
3 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (63.68%) Agile
2 82 (40.80%) DevOps
3 81 (40.30%) Mentoring
4 76 (37.81%) Coaching
5 52 (25.87%) Scrum
5 52 (25.87%) Software Testing
6 41 (20.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (19.90%) Containerisation
7 40 (19.90%) Observability
8 39 (19.40%) Secrets Management
9 36 (17.91%) CI/CD
9 36 (17.91%) TDD
10 27 (13.43%) Acceptance Criteria
10 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.94%) SDLC
11 24 (11.94%) Software Engineering
11 24 (11.94%) Waterfall
12 21 (10.45%) Manual Testing
12 21 (10.45%) Microservices
12 21 (10.45%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.40%) SQL
2 33 (16.42%) JavaScript
3 29 (14.43%) C#
4 22 (10.95%) Java
5 19 (9.45%) Python
6 8 (3.98%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.99%) COBOL
8 5 (2.49%) C++
9 4 (1.99%) JCL
10 3 (1.49%) PHP
11 2 (1.00%) C
11 2 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (15.42%) Degree
2 23 (11.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.49%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.39%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) WCAG
4 4 (1.99%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.99%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.49%) WAI
6 2 (1.00%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 7 (3.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (27.36%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.38%) Terraform
3 39 (19.40%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.99%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (1.00%) Packer
6 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) cPanel
7 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 44 (21.89%) IBM
2 39 (19.40%) Dynatrace
2 39 (19.40%) Red Hat
3 21 (10.45%) Keysight
4 6 (2.99%) Aderant
5 5 (2.49%) EMC
5 5 (2.49%) HP
6 4 (1.99%) Oracle
6 4 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.00%) Cadence
7 2 (1.00%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Google
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.50%) VMware