QA Automation Job Trends in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring QA Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +99
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 2 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.058% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £50,250
25th Percentile £58,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £61,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

QA 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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,969 3,244 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.71% 84.77% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 1,358 2,138
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

QA Automation job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA Automation

QA Automation
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
West Yorkshire - 2 £61,500 - 3
QA Automation
England

QA Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) People Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA