Test Automation Jobs in Northamptonshire

Automated Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 67 38
Rank change year-on-year +20 -29 -6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 38 3 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 4.44% 0.41% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 0.53% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £31,900 - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £68,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £72,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.31% +70.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £51,250 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £55,300 - £84,500
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +17.02%

All Process and 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 811 571 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 94.74% 77.48% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 229 420 234
10th Percentile £26,650 £24,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,938 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £41,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% -25.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £77,075
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £44,050 £50,249
% change year-on-year +2.16% -12.34% +5.79%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Northamptonshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 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
Northampton -4 4 £44,000 -39.31% 8
Towcester - 1 - -
Wellingborough - 1 - -
Brackley - 1 - -
Corby - 1 - -
Daventry - 1 - - 1
Kettering - 1 - -
Test Automation
East Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 25 (65.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) AWS
1 25 (65.79%) Azure
1 25 (65.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) TCP/IP
1 11 (28.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (65.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (94.74%) Cucumber
2 25 (65.79%) Bitbucket
2 25 (65.79%) GitLab
2 25 (65.79%) JIRA
2 25 (65.79%) Maven
2 25 (65.79%) Selenium
2 25 (65.79%) SonarQube
2 25 (65.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (28.95%) Robot Framework
General
1 36 (94.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (65.79%) Banking
2 25 (65.79%) Finance
3 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 11 (28.95%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Software Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Test Automation Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Test Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Senior
3 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (2.63%) Software Tester
3 1 (2.63%) Tester
3 1 (2.63%) Trainee
3 1 (2.63%) Trainee Software Tester
3 1 (2.63%) Trainee Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (65.79%) CSS
1 25 (65.79%) Hibernate
1 25 (65.79%) HTML
1 25 (65.79%) JPA
1 25 (65.79%) Kafka
1 25 (65.79%) React
1 25 (65.79%) Redux
1 25 (65.79%) Spring
1 25 (65.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (65.79%) Enterprise Software
1 25 (65.79%) Product Ownership
2 11 (28.95%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
1 11 (28.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (94.74%) DevOps
2 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 26 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 26 (68.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (68.42%) SDLC
2 26 (68.42%) Software Engineering
3 25 (65.79%) Clean Code
3 25 (65.79%) Containerisation
3 25 (65.79%) Front End Development
3 25 (65.79%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (65.79%) Microservices
3 25 (65.79%) Performance Optimisation
3 25 (65.79%) TDD
4 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (28.95%) Coaching
5 11 (28.95%) Mentoring
5 11 (28.95%) System Testing
5 11 (28.95%) Test Management
6 2 (5.26%) Software Testing
7 1 (2.63%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) JavaScript
2 26 (68.42%) Java
3 25 (65.79%) SQL
4 12 (31.58%) Python
5 11 (28.95%) Bash
5 11 (28.95%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (97.37%) QA
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (65.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Solace