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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 3 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 1.99% 5.39% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 5.88% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 -
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 125 187 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 82.78% 91.67% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 85 93 100
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% +23.53%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £59,571 £72,513
Cheshire median annual salary £48,979 £48,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.51% -3.50% +11.11%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Warrington 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 (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