Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 32 61
Rank change year-on-year -63 +29 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 183 474 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.48% 7.48% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 7.73% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 157 161 204
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,750 £84,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,096 6,130 7,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.72% 96.78% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 3,189 4,741
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -29 74 £50,000 -16.67% 16
Warwickshire -17 26 £44,000 -14.67% 8
Staffordshire -25 17 £63,750 +34.21% 5
Coventry -10 15 £49,000 -10.91% 6
Shropshire -20 11 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Solihull -3 8 £50,000 -4.76% 1
Worcestershire -21 7 £50,000 +21.90% 8
Wolverhampton -2 4 £60,000 - 3
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 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.42%) Azure
2 46 (25.14%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (9.84%) GitHub
4 12 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.92%) PaaS
5 9 (4.92%) SaaS
6 8 (4.37%) IaaS
7 7 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.28%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.73%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.73%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (2.73%) Serverless
9 5 (2.73%) WhatsApp
10 4 (2.19%) GCP
11 3 (1.64%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.73%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.19%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.19%) MQTT
3 4 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.19%) Wireless
4 3 (1.64%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.09%) 5G
6 1 (0.55%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.55%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.55%) HTTP
6 1 (0.55%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.46%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.46%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.83%) InterSystems Cache
5 6 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.28%) MySQL
5 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.73%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (2.73%) Power BI
7 4 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (15.85%) Git
2 12 (6.56%) Selenium
3 11 (6.01%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.01%) Postman
4 10 (5.46%) MSTest
5 8 (4.37%) JIRA
5 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.37%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.83%) LabVIEW
7 5 (2.73%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.73%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.19%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (1.64%) JMeter
9 3 (1.64%) Maven
9 3 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.09%) NUnit
11 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.55%) JUnit
11 1 (0.55%) Moq
General
1 51 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Finance
3 29 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.29%) Automotive
6 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.56%) Banking
8 9 (4.92%) Electronics
9 6 (3.28%) Retail
10 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.19%) Police
11 3 (1.64%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Games
12 2 (1.09%) Law
12 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (26.23%) Developer
2 28 (15.30%) Senior
3 23 (12.57%) Software Engineer
4 20 (10.93%) Test Engineer
5 14 (7.65%) Lead
6 11 (6.01%) IT Manager
6 11 (6.01%) QA Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) Tester
7 10 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) Full Stack Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Java Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.37%) Software Developer
9 7 (3.83%) Audit Manager
9 7 (3.83%) IT Audit Manager
9 7 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (3.83%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.28%) Junior
10 6 (3.28%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.03%) .NET
2 17 (9.29%) React
3 16 (8.74%) HTML
4 15 (8.20%) XML
5 13 (7.10%) ASP.NET
6 12 (6.56%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.56%) Spring
6 12 (6.56%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.01%) REST
8 10 (5.46%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.46%) JSON
8 10 (5.46%) RESTful
9 8 (4.37%) ARM Templates
9 8 (4.37%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (4.37%) Blazor
9 8 (4.37%) CSS
9 8 (4.37%) Web Services
10 5 (2.73%) EDI
10 5 (2.73%) Node.js
10 5 (2.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.94%) Product Ownership
2 26 (14.21%) Mobile App
3 20 (10.93%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (9.84%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.56%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (4.92%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.28%) IoT
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.55%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.55%) FMCG
9 1 (0.55%) Genomics
9 1 (0.55%) NHS
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Windows
2 5 (2.73%) Linux
3 4 (2.19%) Unix
4 3 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (53.55%) Agile
2 62 (33.88%) DevOps
3 59 (32.24%) Software Testing
4 55 (30.05%) Mentoring
5 43 (23.50%) Functional Testing
6 36 (19.67%) CI/CD
7 35 (19.13%) Scrum
7 35 (19.13%) Software Engineering
7 35 (19.13%) Test Strategy
8 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (16.94%) SDLC
9 29 (15.85%) Non-Functional Testing
10 28 (15.30%) Test Scripting
11 26 (14.21%) Security Testing
12 21 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.93%) BDD
13 20 (10.93%) Computer Science
13 20 (10.93%) Test Planning
13 20 (10.93%) User Experience
14 19 (10.38%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.87%) C#
1 51 (27.87%) SQL
2 30 (16.39%) JavaScript
3 29 (15.85%) Java
4 28 (15.30%) Python
5 17 (9.29%) C
6 9 (4.92%) C++
6 9 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.73%) Embedded C
7 5 (2.73%) Embedded C++
7 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.73%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.19%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.19%) VB
9 3 (1.64%) Dart
9 3 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) R
10 1 (0.55%) Swift
10 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (18.03%) Degree
2 16 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (30.60%) QA
2 9 (4.92%) NCSC
3 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.64%) JTAG
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.01%) Terraform
3 8 (4.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.92%) Databricks
3 8 (4.37%) Xamarin
4 7 (3.83%) InterSystems
5 6 (3.28%) Google
5 6 (3.28%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (3.28%) Oracle
5 6 (3.28%) SAP
5 6 (3.28%) YouTube
6 5 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.73%) SYSPRO
7 3 (1.64%) IBM
7 3 (1.64%) Lauterbach
7 3 (1.64%) Telerik
8 1 (0.55%) Denodo
8 1 (0.55%) MathWorks
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Splunk
8 1 (0.55%) Talend