Test Automation Engineer Jobs in Sheffield

Automation Test Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in Sheffield is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.70% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile - - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 275 1,013 820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 95.48% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 189 820 397
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,938 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -10.00%

Test Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Engineer in Sheffield

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Test Automation Engineer in Sheffield

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Test Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) vRealize
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

Test Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Brocade
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware