Test Automation Jobs in Staffordshire

Automated Testing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 73 45
Rank change year-on-year +30 -28 +13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 22 17 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.49% 1.64% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 2.00% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 3
10th Percentile - £43,450 £35,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £51,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £63,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.78% +34.21% +35.71%
75th Percentile £57,500 £97,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £63,500 £100,000 £55,750
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 437 848 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 69.26% 81.77% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 216 596 361
10th Percentile £28,411 £23,500 £23,250
25th Percentile £30,580 £28,119 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Staffordshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Staffordshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Staffordshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Stafford - 4 - - 1
Stoke-on-Trent +22 3 - - 8
Cannock +4 2 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Burton-upon-Trent 0 2 £35,000 -65.00% 1
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 7 (31.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (72.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Bitbucket
1 16 (72.73%) Cucumber
1 16 (72.73%) GitLab
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
1 16 (72.73%) Maven
1 16 (72.73%) Selenium
1 16 (72.73%) SonarQube
1 16 (72.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) LabVIEW
General
1 16 (72.73%) Banking
1 16 (72.73%) Finance
1 16 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (40.91%) Corporate Banking
2 9 (40.91%) Investment Banking
2 9 (40.91%) Retail
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Automotive
4 2 (9.09%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) HTML
2 16 (72.73%) CSS
2 16 (72.73%) JPA
2 16 (72.73%) Kafka
2 16 (72.73%) React
2 16 (72.73%) Redux
2 16 (72.73%) Spring
2 16 (72.73%) Spring Boot
3 11 (50.00%) HTML5
4 9 (40.91%) CSS3
4 9 (40.91%) Jest
4 9 (40.91%) REST
4 9 (40.91%) RESTful
4 9 (40.91%) Sass
5 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
6 2 (9.09%) JSON
6 2 (9.09%) Pixi.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (72.73%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 16 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) Front End Development
2 16 (72.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (72.73%) Microservices
2 16 (72.73%) Performance Optimisation
2 16 (72.73%) SDLC
2 16 (72.73%) Software Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
3 9 (40.91%) Migration
3 9 (40.91%) Responsive Web Design
3 9 (40.91%) Strategic Thinking
3 9 (40.91%) User Experience
4 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (31.82%) TDD
5 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) Java
2 16 (72.73%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (72.73%) QA
2 9 (40.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Solace
2 1 (4.55%) Blue Prism