Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 103 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 -74 +34
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 96 179 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.34% 2.30% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 2.83% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 56 154 163
10th Percentile £39,750 £37,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £45,375 £41,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,875 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test 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 Test Automation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Warwickshire +5 27 £67,500 +53.41% 12
Birmingham -4 23 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Staffordshire +24 19 £59,344 +13.04% 29
Solihull +12 6 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Worcestershire +21 3 £35,000 -30.00% 8
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Coventry -15 1 - - 7
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.58%) Azure
2 35 (36.46%) AWS
3 14 (14.58%) GCP
4 13 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.38%) SaaS
6 6 (6.25%) GitHub
6 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.25%) IaaS
6 6 (6.25%) PaaS
7 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.13%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.13%) Route 53
9 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.08%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.04%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) VPN
2 2 (2.08%) Bluetooth
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.04%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) IOS XR
3 1 (1.04%) MPLS
3 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.21%) Power BI
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.08%) Big Data
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (52.08%) Selenium
2 47 (48.96%) JIRA
3 33 (34.38%) SonarQube
4 27 (28.13%) Maven
5 26 (27.08%) Cucumber
6 25 (26.04%) GitLab
7 24 (25.00%) Bitbucket
7 24 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (6.25%) WebDriver
9 5 (5.21%) Git
9 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
10 4 (4.17%) Appium
10 4 (4.17%) Postman
11 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.13%) DbUnit
11 3 (3.13%) jMock
11 3 (3.13%) JUnit
11 3 (3.13%) Mockito
11 3 (3.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 36 (37.50%) Finance
2 27 (28.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (27.08%) Banking
4 21 (21.88%) Social Skills
5 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 11 (11.46%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (11.46%) Investment Banking
6 11 (11.46%) Retail
7 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (5.21%) Automotive
8 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Law
10 2 (2.08%) Electronics
10 2 (2.08%) Games
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Software Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) Lead
3 18 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (18.75%) Validation Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Developer
5 8 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Analytics Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Software Tester
7 5 (5.21%) Tester
8 4 (4.17%) Senior
8 4 (4.17%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.13%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (3.13%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.13%) JPA
1 27 (28.13%) Spring
1 27 (28.13%) Spring Boot
2 26 (27.08%) CSS
2 26 (27.08%) HTML
2 26 (27.08%) Kafka
2 26 (27.08%) React
3 24 (25.00%) Redux
4 16 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 14 (14.58%) RESTful
6 12 (12.50%) Jest
6 12 (12.50%) REST
7 11 (11.46%) CSS3
7 11 (11.46%) HTML5
7 11 (11.46%) Sass
8 9 (9.38%) Playwright
9 6 (6.25%) ARM Templates
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
10 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.13%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.13%) Product Ownership
2 24 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (18.75%) Operational Technology
3 18 (18.75%) SCADA
4 6 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) AS400
7 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (2.08%) Android
3 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.83%) DevOps
2 41 (42.71%) Agile
3 37 (38.54%) Mentoring
4 35 (36.46%) Software Engineering
5 34 (35.42%) CI/CD
5 34 (35.42%) Containerisation
6 32 (33.33%) SDLC
7 29 (30.21%) Microservices
8 26 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (26.04%) Front End Development
10 24 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 22 (22.92%) TDD
12 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (19.79%) Computer Science
13 19 (19.79%) Penetration Testing
13 19 (19.79%) Validation
14 18 (18.75%) Model Validation
15 15 (15.63%) Strategic Thinking
16 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.38%) Java
1 33 (34.38%) JavaScript
2 32 (33.33%) SQL
3 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.50%) C#
5 10 (10.42%) Python
6 2 (2.08%) Bash
6 2 (2.08%) PHP
6 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.04%) Dart
Qualifications
1 28 (29.17%) Degree
2 21 (21.88%) ISTQB
3 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.21%) ACCA
5 5 (5.21%) CIMA
5 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (44.79%) QA
2 11 (11.46%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.25%) NCSC
4 3 (3.13%) PMBOK
5 1 (1.04%) JTAG
System Software
1 34 (35.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.38%) Terraform
3 7 (7.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Solace
2 5 (5.21%) Alteryx
3 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 2 (2.08%) Kofax
5 2 (2.08%) UiPath
6 1 (1.04%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Juniper
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle