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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 122 43
Rank change year-on-year -22 -79 -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 104 178 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 1.97% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.33% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 77 120 183
10th Percentile £39,535 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,498 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £70,624
90th Percentile £97,528 £73,750 £77,672
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 6,506 7,639 7,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.10% 84.35% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,014 5,813 4,117
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £30,575
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,967 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -12.00% +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 1 April 2025.

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 1 April 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
Manchester +8 67 £62,500 +13.64% 93
Cumbria - 21 £43,248 -
Lancashire -36 10 £50,055 +5.38% 14
Cheshire +25 3 £45,000 -21.74% 16
Merseyside +33 2 £37,250 -11.31% 14
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 3 (2.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) CMS
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Moodle
3 1 (0.96%) Totara
3 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.96%) GCP
2 26 (25.00%) AWS
3 19 (18.27%) Azure
4 10 (9.62%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (4.81%) Serverless
6 3 (2.88%) Apigee
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.88%) SaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.96%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub
8 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.96%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Cloud Spanner
1 10 (9.62%) MySQL
2 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.88%) Big Data
3 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) JIRA
2 25 (24.04%) Git
3 21 (20.19%) eggPlant
4 10 (9.62%) Selenium
5 8 (7.69%) Postman
6 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
7 6 (5.77%) JUnit
8 5 (4.81%) JMeter
9 4 (3.85%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.85%) TestRail
10 3 (2.88%) LoadRunner
10 3 (2.88%) Maven
10 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.92%) MSTest
11 2 (1.92%) NUnit
11 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.92%) TestNG
11 2 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (40.38%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Banking
3 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Games
6 5 (4.81%) Legal
7 4 (3.85%) Law
8 3 (2.88%) Military
8 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.92%) Front Office
9 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Automotive
10 1 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (43.27%) Senior
2 30 (28.85%) Analyst
3 28 (26.92%) Software Engineer
4 24 (23.08%) Test Analyst
5 21 (20.19%) Software Analyst
5 21 (20.19%) Software Test Analyst
6 17 (16.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (14.42%) Developer
9 13 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
10 11 (10.58%) Senior Software Test Analyst
11 10 (9.62%) Lead
11 10 (9.62%) Senior Developer
12 7 (6.73%) PHP Developer
13 6 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (5.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (5.77%) Senior PHP Developer
14 4 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.88%) React
2 19 (18.27%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.31%) Node.js
4 16 (15.38%) RESTful
5 13 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 13 (12.50%) CSS
5 13 (12.50%) HTML
6 9 (8.65%) Playwright
6 9 (8.65%) Spring
7 8 (7.69%) Vue
8 7 (6.73%) .NET
9 6 (5.77%) jQuery
9 6 (5.77%) LAMP
10 5 (4.81%) Kafka
10 5 (4.81%) SOAP
11 4 (3.85%) XML
12 3 (2.88%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.88%) REST
12 3 (2.88%) RxJS
13 2 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 12 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) Derivative
6 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.92%) Equities
6 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.92%) Replication
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.69%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Android
4 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.85%) Agile
2 36 (34.62%) Mentoring
3 35 (33.65%) Software Engineering
3 35 (33.65%) Software Testing
4 34 (32.69%) Scrum
5 28 (26.92%) CI/CD
6 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (21.15%) Code Quality
7 22 (21.15%) Waterfall
8 21 (20.19%) Acceptance Criteria
8 21 (20.19%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (20.19%) V-Model
9 20 (19.23%) TDD
10 19 (18.27%) DevOps
11 16 (15.38%) SDLC
12 15 (14.42%) Coaching
13 13 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (10.58%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (10.58%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (10.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.54%) JavaScript
2 36 (34.62%) Java
3 25 (24.04%) Python
4 21 (20.19%) TypeScript
5 17 (16.35%) SQL
6 12 (11.54%) C#
7 11 (10.58%) PHP
8 5 (4.81%) Go
9 3 (2.88%) C++
9 3 (2.88%) Rust
10 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 12 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.85%) GDPR
2 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.96%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (17.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (20.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (2.88%) Istio
4 2 (1.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) cPanel
5 1 (0.96%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Keysight
2 11 (10.58%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.88%) Twitter
5 2 (1.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.96%) HP
6 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.96%) SAP
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow