Test Automation Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Automated Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 42 37
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 32 59 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.43% 6.43% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 6.64% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24 34 31
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £49,688 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +31.25%
75th Percentile £71,991 £67,188 £62,500
90th Percentile - £72,500 £80,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.49% +32.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,151 889 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.33% 96.84% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 967 451 645
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,049 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,963 £78,750 £82,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -5.56%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -25 29 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Gateshead - 2 £56,500 -
Jarrow - 1 £60,000 -
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 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) SaaS
4 8 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 5 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Fabric
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.38%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) MySQL
2 8 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
2 4 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (9.38%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.13%) Bugzilla
5 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Mockito
5 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 12 (37.50%) Law
2 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Financial Institution
4 5 (15.63%) Legal
5 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Games
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Java Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Java Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Software Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Applications Manager
4 5 (15.63%) Consultant
4 5 (15.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 5 (15.63%) IT Manager
4 5 (15.63%) Senior IT Manager
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Tester
6 3 (9.38%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) RESTful
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.38%) HTML
2 3 (9.38%) JSON
2 3 (9.38%) React
2 3 (9.38%) Spring
2 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (3.13%) Laravel
4 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) Swagger
4 1 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Low-Code
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
5 10 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (31.25%) CRM
6 9 (28.13%) DevOps
7 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (25.00%) Coaching
7 8 (25.00%) Microservices
7 8 (25.00%) TDD
8 7 (21.88%) BDD
8 7 (21.88%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (18.75%) Build Automation
9 6 (18.75%) Line Management
9 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
10 5 (15.63%) Data Integration
10 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
10 5 (15.63%) Ticket Management
10 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) Python
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (15.63%) iManage
3 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle