Test Automation Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Automated Testing
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.25% 2.34% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 2.65% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43,775
25th Percentile £77,500 - £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £52,250
75th Percentile £82,500 - £58,563
90th Percentile - - £60,925
Staffordshire median annual salary £73,750 £43,500 £55,347
% change year-on-year +69.54% -21.40% +22.99%

All Process & 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 234 113 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 58.94% 88.28% 83.41%
Number of salaries quoted 180 40 136
10th Percentile £26,225 £27,897 £24,125
25th Percentile £31,913 £28,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £66,500 £65,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +5.88%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix