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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -62 -14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 214 550 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.21% 6.87% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 7.17% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 131 163 374
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,637
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.99% +20.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,991 £77,250 £75,875
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 8,063 7,671 8,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.18% 95.78% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,139 3,964 5,357
10th Percentile £27,950 £30,500 £30,150
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% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -39 156 £56,482 -5.86% 60
Cheshire -24 31 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Merseyside -38 14 £42,000 -31.43% 1
Lancashire -30 12 £57,500 +31.43% 8
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 (4.67%) Confluence
2 8 (3.74%) IIS
3 4 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.87%) CMS
3 4 (1.87%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.93%) WordPress
5 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.93%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.18%) AWS
2 40 (18.69%) Amazon S3
3 37 (17.29%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (16.82%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (16.82%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (16.82%) OCI
4 36 (16.82%) Route 53
5 31 (14.49%) Azure
6 15 (7.01%) SaaS
7 13 (6.07%) GitHub
8 10 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.67%) Google Play
9 9 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.21%) Power Automate
9 9 (4.21%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.27%) Serverless
11 6 (2.80%) BrowserStack
12 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) DNS
1 4 (1.87%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.82%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.14%) MySQL
4 8 (3.74%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.27%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.93%) Redis
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
9 1 (0.47%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 35 (16.36%) Git
2 21 (9.81%) Appium
3 17 (7.94%) Cypress.io
4 15 (7.01%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.01%) Selenium
5 12 (5.61%) JIRA
6 11 (5.14%) Jasmine
7 10 (4.67%) Postman
8 9 (4.21%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.74%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.74%) JMeter
10 6 (2.80%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.80%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.34%) Clang
12 4 (1.87%) JUnit
12 4 (1.87%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.40%) TestNG
14 2 (0.93%) LabVIEW
14 2 (0.93%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (26.17%) Public Sector
2 47 (21.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (21.50%) Finance
4 41 (19.16%) Social Skills
5 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (7.48%) Retail
7 12 (5.61%) Marketing
8 8 (3.74%) Automotive
9 7 (3.27%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.87%) Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Advertising
11 3 (1.40%) Aviation
12 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.93%) Electronics
12 2 (0.93%) Law
12 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (34.11%) Senior
2 58 (27.10%) Developer
3 37 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (16.82%) Senior DevOps
4 36 (16.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.75%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.81%) Lead
7 20 (9.35%) Tester
8 17 (7.94%) Software Developer
9 16 (7.48%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Analyst
10 11 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Android Developer
11 10 (4.67%) Senior Android Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Applications Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (4.21%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.74%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.75%) CSS
2 21 (9.81%) HTML
2 21 (9.81%) RESTful
3 17 (7.94%) JSON
3 17 (7.94%) React
4 16 (7.48%) .NET
5 14 (6.54%) REST
6 13 (6.07%) Jest
6 13 (6.07%) Node.js
7 10 (4.67%) Android SDK
8 9 (4.21%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.21%) CSS3
9 8 (3.74%) HTML5
9 8 (3.74%) LLVM
10 7 (3.27%) Gherkin
10 7 (3.27%) Playwright
10 7 (3.27%) React Native
11 6 (2.80%) NestJS
12 5 (2.34%) Sass
13 4 (1.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.82%) Blockchain
1 36 (16.82%) e-Learning
1 36 (16.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (6.07%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.87%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.87%) SCADA
8 3 (1.40%) Blog
8 3 (1.40%) IoT
9 2 (0.93%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.93%) Animation
9 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.93%) FMCG
10 1 (0.47%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.35%) Linux
2 17 (7.94%) Windows
3 14 (6.54%) Android
4 7 (3.27%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.87%) VMS
5 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (72.43%) Agile
2 79 (36.92%) DevOps
3 71 (33.18%) Mentoring
4 67 (31.31%) Coaching
5 55 (25.70%) CI/CD
6 49 (22.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 46 (21.50%) Software Engineering
8 45 (21.03%) TDD
9 43 (20.09%) Containerisation
10 37 (17.29%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (17.29%) Observability
11 36 (16.82%) Secrets Management
12 31 (14.49%) Software Testing
13 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.68%) Fintech
15 24 (11.21%) SDLC
16 23 (10.75%) Design Patterns
17 21 (9.81%) Scrum
18 20 (9.35%) Pair Programming
19 19 (8.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.83%) JavaScript
2 45 (21.03%) Java
3 38 (17.76%) C#
4 27 (12.62%) Python
5 25 (11.68%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.81%) SQL
7 20 (9.35%) C
8 14 (6.54%) Go
9 13 (6.07%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.27%) Ruby
11 5 (2.34%) Fortran
12 4 (1.87%) C++
12 4 (1.87%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.40%) PHP
14 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (14.02%) Degree
2 10 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.34%) ISTQB
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.93%) HND
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (19.16%) QA
2 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (4.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (21.03%) Terraform
2 42 (19.63%) Kubernetes
3 36 (16.82%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.14%) Ansible
5 9 (4.21%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.80%) Kibana
7 5 (2.34%) Grafana
8 1 (0.47%) Kiali
Vendors
1 36 (16.82%) Dynatrace
1 36 (16.82%) IBM
1 36 (16.82%) Red Hat
2 15 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.67%) Google
4 6 (2.80%) Adobe
5 5 (2.34%) YouTube
6 4 (1.87%) Facebook
6 4 (1.87%) Splunk
7 2 (0.93%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.93%) EMC
7 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) BT