Test Automation Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Automation Test Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Automation Test Developer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.022% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £24,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +139.58% -54.29% -38.24%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,005 6,824 5,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 94.09% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,807 5,158 3,359
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,217 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Test Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Test Automation Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Developer in the West Midlands

Test Automation Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation Developer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Test Automation Developer in the West Midlands

Test Automation Developer
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 Test Automation Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham - 1 £57,500 -
Test Automation Developer
England

Test Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Test Automation Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Test Automation Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Test Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA