Test Automation Job Trends in West Wales

Automated Testing
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 23
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 2.17% - 15.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 23
10th Percentile - - £32,521
25th Percentile - - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.11%
75th Percentile - - £58,125
90th Percentile - - £75,000
Wales median annual salary £53,750 £44,344 £53,750
% change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 110 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 80.43% 77.46% 98.61%
Number of salaries quoted 19 72 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,375
25th Percentile £36,367 £34,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,512 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -5.53% -7.22%
75th Percentile £47,875 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £55,736 £67,250 £74,414
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +1.31% +2.15% -7.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in West Wales

Test Automation
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Swansea - 1 £50,000 - 2
Test Automation
Wales

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell