Test Automation Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 15 42
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 7 40 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.73% 8.97% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 10.39% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £30,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -42.86% -25.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £31,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £56,250 - £62,750
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 385 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 78.52% 86.32% 87.26%
Number of salaries quoted 223 146 300
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,125 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,625
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Daventry - 4 £36,250 -
Northampton -5 3 £62,500 +108.33% 15
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Test Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (28.57%) System Testing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics