Test Automation Jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Automated Testing
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 45 25
Rank change year-on-year +21 -20 -1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 1 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 1.96% 0.29% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.34% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £44,500 -
Staffordshire median annual salary £53,688 £63,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.78% +34.21% +35.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 290 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 89.22% 85.04% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57 247 154
10th Percentile £28,000 £21,500 £22,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,000 £61,500 £67,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Stoke-on-Trent

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Stoke-on-Trent.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Stoke-on-Trent

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Solace