Test Automation Jobs in Northampton

Automated Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 46 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 4 3 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 0.80% 0.72% 7.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.93% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £31,900 - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £68,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £72,500 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.31% +83.54% -16.84%
75th Percentile £51,250 £76,250 £42,250
90th Percentile £55,300 - £43,150
Northamptonshire median annual salary £44,000 £72,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -39.31% +70.59% -12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 473 323 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 94.41% 77.09% 92.26%
Number of salaries quoted 167 268 156
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,094 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -19.05% +0.96%
75th Percentile £63,500 £52,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £69,750 £67,500 £78,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £47,683 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.30% -25.45% +6.80%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Northampton.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Northampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Northampton over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Northampton

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee Software Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Solace