Test Automation Jobs in Sheffield

Automated Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -55 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 11 141 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.04% 15.28% 9.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 15.53% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 52
10th Percentile - - £42,188
25th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,732 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,813 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £58,982 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.96% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 888 908 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.17% 98.37% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 724 390 516
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,915 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,625 £75,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Sheffield

Test Automation
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Multicast
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) Appium
3 4 (36.36%) LoadRunner
3 4 (36.36%) Protractor
4 3 (27.27%) JMeter
5 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Automation Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Test Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Test Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Head of QA
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Regression Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) ISEB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility