Test Automation Job Trends in Nottingham

Automated Testing
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 20 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 0.38% 3.73% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 4.03% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 12
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,500 £31,375
25th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +32.60% -17.73%
75th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £70,875
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +13.21% -7.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 433 496 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 82.48% 92.54% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 270 240 203
10th Percentile £28,725 £31,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £43,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £68,063 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA