Test Automation Jobs in the North West

Automated Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 40 34
Rank change year-on-year -69 -6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 219 536 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.22% 6.86% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 7.16% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 134 145 366
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.26% +18.03%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £66,813
90th Percentile £72,347 £77,715 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,161 7,481 8,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.83% 95.68% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6,195 3,903 5,259
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -45 159 £57,965 +0.81% 45
Cheshire -11 33 £57,500 -13.21% 16
Merseyside -45 14 £42,000 -26.96% 3
Lancashire -32 12 £57,500 +35.29% 3
Cumbria - 1 £27,000 -
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 10 (4.57%) Confluence
2 8 (3.65%) IIS
3 4 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.83%) CMS
3 4 (1.83%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.91%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.91%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (32.42%) AWS
2 40 (18.26%) Amazon S3
3 37 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (16.44%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (16.44%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (16.44%) OCI
4 36 (16.44%) Route 53
5 33 (15.07%) Azure
6 19 (8.68%) SaaS
7 11 (5.02%) GitHub
8 10 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.57%) Google Play
9 9 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.11%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.11%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.20%) Serverless
11 6 (2.74%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) DNS
1 4 (1.83%) Firewall
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.44%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.02%) MySQL
4 9 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.91%) Redis
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 37 (16.89%) Git
2 21 (9.59%) Appium
3 17 (7.76%) Cypress.io
4 16 (7.31%) Selenium
5 15 (6.85%) Jenkins
6 12 (5.48%) JIRA
7 11 (5.02%) Jasmine
7 11 (5.02%) Postman
8 9 (4.11%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.65%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.65%) JMeter
10 6 (2.74%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.74%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.28%) Clang
12 4 (1.83%) JUnit
12 4 (1.83%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.37%) TestNG
14 2 (0.91%) LabVIEW
14 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (25.57%) Public Sector
2 47 (21.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (20.09%) Finance
4 42 (19.18%) Social Skills
5 18 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.22%) Retail
6 12 (5.48%) Marketing
7 8 (3.65%) Automotive
8 7 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.37%) Advertising
9 3 (1.37%) Aviation
10 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (32.42%) Senior
2 61 (27.85%) Developer
3 37 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (16.44%) Senior DevOps
4 36 (16.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.05%) Lead
6 21 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 20 (9.13%) Tester
8 19 (8.68%) Software Developer
9 16 (7.31%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.02%) Analyst
11 10 (4.57%) Android Developer
11 10 (4.57%) Senior Android Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.65%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.50%) CSS
2 21 (9.59%) HTML
2 21 (9.59%) RESTful
3 18 (8.22%) .NET
3 18 (8.22%) React
4 17 (7.76%) JSON
5 16 (7.31%) REST
6 14 (6.39%) Node.js
7 13 (5.94%) Jest
8 10 (4.57%) Android SDK
9 9 (4.11%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.11%) CSS3
10 8 (3.65%) HTML5
10 8 (3.65%) LLVM
10 8 (3.65%) Playwright
11 7 (3.20%) Gherkin
11 7 (3.20%) React Native
12 6 (2.74%) NestJS
13 5 (2.28%) Sass
13 5 (2.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.44%) Blockchain
1 36 (16.44%) e-Learning
1 36 (16.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (5.94%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.02%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.83%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.83%) SCADA
9 3 (1.37%) Blog
9 3 (1.37%) IoT
10 2 (0.91%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Animation
10 2 (0.91%) FMCG
11 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.05%) Linux
2 19 (8.68%) Windows
3 14 (6.39%) Android
4 7 (3.20%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.83%) VMS
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (72.15%) Agile
2 83 (37.90%) DevOps
3 70 (31.96%) Mentoring
4 68 (31.05%) Coaching
5 58 (26.48%) CI/CD
6 49 (22.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 46 (21.00%) Software Engineering
8 43 (19.63%) Containerisation
9 42 (19.18%) TDD
10 41 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
11 37 (16.89%) Observability
12 36 (16.44%) Secrets Management
13 34 (15.53%) Software Testing
14 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.42%) Fintech
16 24 (10.96%) SDLC
17 23 (10.50%) Design Patterns
18 22 (10.05%) Scrum
19 20 (9.13%) Full Stack Development
19 20 (9.13%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 54 (24.66%) JavaScript
2 46 (21.00%) Java
3 40 (18.26%) C#
4 30 (13.70%) Python
5 25 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.50%) SQL
7 22 (10.05%) C
8 14 (6.39%) Go
9 13 (5.94%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.20%) Ruby
11 6 (2.74%) C++
12 5 (2.28%) Fortran
13 4 (1.83%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (13.70%) Degree
2 11 (5.02%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.28%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.91%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.91%) HND
7 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.63%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (3.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (20.55%) Terraform
2 40 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 36 (16.44%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.02%) Ansible
5 9 (4.11%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.74%) Kibana
7 5 (2.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.46%) Kiali
Vendors
1 36 (16.44%) Dynatrace
1 36 (16.44%) IBM
1 36 (16.44%) Red Hat
2 15 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.57%) Google
4 6 (2.74%) Adobe
5 5 (2.28%) YouTube
6 4 (1.83%) Facebook
6 4 (1.83%) Splunk
7 3 (1.37%) BT
7 3 (1.37%) SAP
8 2 (0.91%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.91%) EMC
9 1 (0.46%) Workday