QA Automation Job Trends in the West Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring QA Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 206 163
Rank change year-on-year +37 -43 +104
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 7 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.023% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.025% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £57,950 - -
25th Percentile £58,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile £68,750 - -
England median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

QA 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,350 4,004 2,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.76% 90.34% 89.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,803 2,440
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,311 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,860 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

QA Automation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

QA Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing QA Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Birmingham - 6 £62,000 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Lead
2 6 (85.71%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Java EE
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) API Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (71.43%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) People Management
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle