Test Automation Jobs in Runcorn

Automated Testing
Cheshire > Runcorn

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Runcorn 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Runcorn 3.92% - 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £42,500
75th Percentile - - £43,750
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -21.74% -13.21% +65.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Runcorn

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 Runcorn.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 25 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Runcorn 76.47% 58.14% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 32
10th Percentile £22,859 £37,800 £32,625
25th Percentile - £41,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.77% - -5.26%
75th Percentile - £51,563 £48,000
90th Percentile £54,750 £52,500 -
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Runcorn

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Runcorn

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Runcorn

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Runcorn

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Runcorn 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace