Test Automation Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 33 42 71
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.77% 2.91% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.29% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27 26 60
10th Percentile £39,750 £45,375 £42,550
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -29.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,875 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £97,528 £92,741
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.80% +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,497 1,276 1,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.27% 88.43% 91.71%
Number of salaries quoted 879 634 1,418
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Leeds -24 26 £58,750 +18.69% 12
Bradford - 3 £41,500 - 11
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) Serverless
5 5 (15.15%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DHCP
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) VLAN
1 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
1 5 (15.15%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Selenium
2 3 (9.09%) JMeter
2 3 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.03%) Appium
3 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.03%) Snyk
General
1 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Games
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Lead
3 7 (21.21%) Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Test Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Data Manager
7 3 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) QA Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) QA Leader
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Junior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) React
2 6 (18.18%) Django
2 6 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 6 (18.18%) Flask
2 6 (18.18%) Vue
3 5 (15.15%) CSS
3 5 (15.15%) HTML
4 4 (12.12%) Kafka
5 3 (9.09%) Middleware
6 2 (6.06%) .NET
6 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
6 2 (6.06%) RESTful
7 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.03%) Flutter
7 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.03%) Playwright
7 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.03%) REST
7 1 (3.03%) Spring
7 1 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.06%) FMCG
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 13 (39.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (39.39%) Mentoring
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (27.27%) API Testing
4 9 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) Software Architecture
6 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
8 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
8 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
8 5 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (15.15%) Data Science
8 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
8 5 (15.15%) OOP
8 5 (15.15%) Open Source
8 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) Python
2 17 (51.52%) SQL
3 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.21%) C#
5 6 (18.18%) Scala
6 4 (12.12%) Java
7 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.03%) Go
8 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) HP Fortify
3 2 (6.06%) Control-M
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Databricks
2 7 (21.21%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Palantir
4 3 (9.09%) IBM
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.06%) Sophos
6 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
6 1 (3.03%) Qualys