Test Automation Job Trends in Warrington

Automated Testing
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 3 17 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 2.21% 7.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 7.69% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £42,500 -
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +58.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 221 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 89.71% 94.44% 97.69%
Number of salaries quoted 64 126 88
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £28,175
25th Percentile £35,208 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,110 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £62,000 £48,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £58,927 £72,635
Cheshire median annual salary £48,720 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% -1.04% +6.67%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Warrington

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warrington 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (66.67%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Redux
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Solace