Test Automation Job Trends in Shropshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.75% 6.25% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 7.92% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £49,500 £26,800
25th Percentile - £56,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £73,250 £54,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,200 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +20.00% -11.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 101 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 79.10% 78.91% 76.47%
Number of salaries quoted 117 43 72
10th Percentile £26,450 £36,250 £27,650
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £37,397
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,563
90th Percentile £62,500 £78,000 £72,375
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Telford -4 2 - - 11
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Denodo
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Talend