Test Automation Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Automated Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 68 38
Rank change year-on-year +34 -30 +3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 21 29 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.58% 2.16% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 2.47% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 17 22 33
10th Percentile £32,300 £42,825 £41,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile - - £69,750
North East median annual salary £59,002 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +4.35% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 1,174 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 94.99% 87.55% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 293 986 448
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,625 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,011 £75,000
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Tyne and Wear

Test Automation
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +31 19 £59,002 -9.87% 22
Test Automation
North East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Slack
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Maven
2 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) NUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) SpecFlow
3 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Development Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
4 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Development Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) QA Leader
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Support Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Trainee
4 1 (4.76%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) React
3 4 (19.05%) CSS
3 4 (19.05%) REST
3 4 (19.05%) Spring
3 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 3 (14.29%) JPA
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) Redux
5 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
5 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.52%) CSS3
5 2 (9.52%) HTML5
5 2 (9.52%) Jest
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) Sass
6 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) PropTech
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) Project Management
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) Scrum
7 5 (23.81%) SDLC
8 4 (19.05%) API Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
8 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
9 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
9 3 (14.29%) OO
9 3 (14.29%) OOP
9 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) C#
1 7 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) Solace
2 1 (4.76%) SAP