Test Automation Jobs in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 86 62
Rank change year-on-year +25 -24 -29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 44 77 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.48% 2.58% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.00% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 34 63 80
10th Percentile £47,000 £33,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £53,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.94% -6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £96,590 £78,750 £78,268
90th Percentile £98,190 £100,000 £85,100
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,223 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.69% - +9.62%

All Process and 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 1,201 2,564 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.94% 85.81% 98.08%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,863 2,293
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,000 £34,025
25th Percentile £38,125 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 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
Leeds +20 31 £49,500 -7.48% 47
Halifax +8 12 £86,957 +23.21% 2
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (22.73%) Confluence
2 7 (15.91%) SAS
3 3 (6.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) CICS
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) GCP
2 21 (47.73%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub
5 3 (6.82%) Apigee
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.27%) mabl
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 8 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.27%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) JIRA
3 7 (15.91%) SonarQube
3 7 (15.91%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (13.64%) Cucumber
5 5 (11.36%) JUnit
5 5 (11.36%) Selenium
6 4 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (9.09%) Maven
7 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.55%) JDeveloper
7 2 (4.55%) Postman
8 1 (2.27%) GitLab
8 1 (2.27%) Gradle
8 1 (2.27%) JMeter
8 1 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.27%) Spinnaker
8 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 33 (75.00%) Finance
2 31 (70.45%) Banking
3 26 (59.09%) Social Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (9.09%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Senior
2 12 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Lead
4 8 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Enterprise Management Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Quality Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) BPM Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (4.55%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (22.73%) Spring
3 7 (15.91%) JWT
3 7 (15.91%) OAuth
3 7 (15.91%) OAuth2
4 5 (11.36%) RESTful
5 3 (6.82%) CSS
5 3 (6.82%) Django
5 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
5 3 (6.82%) Flask
5 3 (6.82%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.82%) HTML
5 3 (6.82%) Playwright
6 2 (4.55%) Middleware
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cordova
7 1 (2.27%) JSON
7 1 (2.27%) SOAP
7 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Product Ownership
2 11 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (18.18%) Credit Risk
3 8 (18.18%) Market Risk
4 7 (15.91%) Management Information System
5 4 (9.09%) Mainframe
6 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (84.09%) DevOps
2 29 (65.91%) Agile
3 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 22 (50.00%) Microservices
5 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
6 16 (36.36%) Scrum
7 15 (34.09%) Software Engineering
8 14 (31.82%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (29.55%) Analytics
9 13 (29.55%) TDD
10 11 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (22.73%) Data Science
12 9 (20.45%) BDD
12 9 (20.45%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (18.18%) Data Management
13 8 (18.18%) Data Protection
13 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
13 8 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
13 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) Python
3 14 (31.82%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) R
5 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.82%) Groovy
6 3 (6.82%) Scala
7 2 (4.55%) C#
7 2 (4.55%) Go
8 1 (2.27%) JCL
8 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) OCP
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Basel III
1 8 (18.18%) GDPR
1 8 (18.18%) IFRS
1 8 (18.18%) IFRS 9
2 7 (15.91%) Basel II
2 7 (15.91%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (15.91%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.45%) Terraform
3 6 (13.64%) Istio
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Argo
4 3 (6.82%) Grafana
4 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) IBM
3 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.82%) Palantir
4 1 (2.27%) CyberSource
4 1 (2.27%) Google