Test Automation Job Trends in Telford

Automated Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Telford 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 11 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 2.17% 9.80% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 10.64% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £49,500 £26,100
25th Percentile - £56,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year - +68.92% -32.73%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £47,250
90th Percentile - £73,250 £51,900
Shropshire median annual salary - £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 47 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Telford 67.39% 92.16% 70.69%
Number of salaries quoted 45 34 31
10th Percentile £25,550 £37,500 £25,625
25th Percentile £26,000 £46,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.00% -16.19%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £79,625 £67,500
Shropshire median annual salary £41,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.55% +22.22% -14.29%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Telford

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Telford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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