Test Automation Jobs in South Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 81 18
Rank change year-on-year +49 -63 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 15 16 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.90% 1.18% 13.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 1.43% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 28
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,218 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.30% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £47,039 £76,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £56,500 £78,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,973 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.87% +4.76% +0.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 1,119 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.65% 82.83% 98.60%
Number of salaries quoted 220 892 526
10th Percentile £27,850 £27,550 £25,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in South Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sheffield +48 15 £35,218 -39.24% 16
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) Multicast
3 4 (26.67%) BGP
3 4 (26.67%) EIGRP
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) OSPF
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) DB2
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (33.33%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Product Management
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Network Management
5 4 (26.67%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Agile
7 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
7 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) IBM
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Brocade
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) HP