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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 108 46
Rank change year-on-year -50 -62 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 113 214 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.49% 2.21% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.65% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 83 131 163
10th Percentile £40,150 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,688 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £71,991 £77,250
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 7,219 8,063 7,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.05% 83.18% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,040 6,139 3,968
10th Percentile £27,474 £27,950 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 26 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 26 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 +3 73 £65,000 +15.08% 98
Cumbria -54 21 £43,248 +60.18%
Lancashire -40 13 £50,055 -12.95% 51
Merseyside +33 3 £37,250 -11.31% 13
Cheshire +11 2 £45,000 -21.74% 26
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 (2.65%) Apache
1 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) CMS
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.88%) Moodle
3 1 (0.88%) Totara
3 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.88%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.66%) AWS
2 28 (24.78%) GCP
3 21 (18.58%) Azure
4 10 (8.85%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (6.19%) Serverless
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.54%) SaaS
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.65%) Apigee
8 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.77%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.88%) GitHub
10 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.50%) MySQL
2 10 (8.85%) Cloud Spanner
3 5 (4.42%) Big Data
3 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (27.43%) JIRA
2 25 (22.12%) Git
3 21 (18.58%) eggPlant
4 16 (14.16%) Selenium
5 13 (11.50%) Postman
6 8 (7.08%) JMeter
7 7 (6.19%) Jenkins
8 6 (5.31%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.31%) JUnit
8 6 (5.31%) LoadRunner
9 5 (4.42%) Appium
9 5 (4.42%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.54%) Fiddler
10 4 (3.54%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.54%) TestRail
11 3 (2.65%) Maven
11 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.65%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.77%) NeoLoad
General
1 46 (40.71%) Finance
2 22 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.70%) Banking
4 13 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.73%) Games
6 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.31%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.31%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (4.42%) Legal
9 4 (3.54%) Cantonese Language
9 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.54%) Law
10 3 (2.65%) Military
11 2 (1.77%) Front Office
11 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.77%) Retail
12 1 (0.88%) Automotive
12 1 (0.88%) Electronics
12 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (39.82%) Senior
2 30 (26.55%) Analyst
3 25 (22.12%) Software Engineer
4 24 (21.24%) Test Analyst
5 21 (18.58%) Software Analyst
5 21 (18.58%) Software Test Analyst
6 16 (14.16%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (13.27%) Developer
7 15 (13.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (11.50%) Senior Test Analyst
9 11 (9.73%) Lead
9 11 (9.73%) Senior Software Test Analyst
10 10 (8.85%) Senior Developer
11 8 (7.08%) Test Engineer
11 8 (7.08%) Tester
12 7 (6.19%) PHP Developer
13 6 (5.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (5.31%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (5.31%) Senior PHP Developer
13 6 (5.31%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.89%) React
2 19 (16.81%) Spring Boot
3 17 (15.04%) Node.js
4 15 (13.27%) RESTful
5 13 (11.50%) CSS
5 13 (11.50%) HTML
6 11 (9.73%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.96%) Playwright
7 9 (7.96%) Spring
8 7 (6.19%) .NET
9 6 (5.31%) jQuery
9 6 (5.31%) LAMP
9 6 (5.31%) Vue
10 5 (4.42%) Kafka
10 5 (4.42%) SOAP
11 4 (3.54%) XML
12 3 (2.65%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.65%) REST
12 3 (2.65%) RxJS
13 2 (1.77%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Algorithms
2 12 (10.62%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.54%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Derivative
6 2 (1.77%) Equities
6 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.77%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.27%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (51.33%) Agile
2 40 (35.40%) Mentoring
3 36 (31.86%) Software Testing
4 34 (30.09%) Scrum
5 31 (27.43%) Software Engineering
6 30 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
8 23 (20.35%) Acceptance Criteria
8 23 (20.35%) Code Quality
9 22 (19.47%) Waterfall
10 21 (18.58%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (18.58%) DevOps
10 21 (18.58%) V-Model
11 19 (16.81%) Coaching
11 19 (16.81%) TDD
12 16 (14.16%) SDLC
13 14 (12.39%) User Experience
14 13 (11.50%) OO
15 12 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
16 11 (9.73%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) JavaScript
2 38 (33.63%) Java
3 31 (27.43%) Python
4 21 (18.58%) TypeScript
5 19 (16.81%) SQL
6 14 (12.39%) C#
7 11 (9.73%) PHP
8 5 (4.42%) Go
8 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.54%) Bash
10 3 (2.65%) Scala
11 2 (1.77%) C++
11 2 (1.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 14 (12.39%) Degree
3 5 (4.42%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.70%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) GDPR
3 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (14.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.85%) Terraform
3 3 (2.65%) Istio
4 2 (1.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) cPanel
5 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Keysight
2 10 (8.85%) Google
3 9 (7.96%) Oracle
4 3 (2.65%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.65%) Twitter
5 2 (1.77%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) HP
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Siebel