Test Automation Jobs in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 65 39
Rank change year-on-year -33 -26 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 105 265 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.95% 4.78% 7.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 4.93% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 75 100 346
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,846 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,100 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,267 5,380 7,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 79.08% 96.99% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,882 3,130 4,435
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,149 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,890 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,590 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +3.98% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,222 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,675 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Yorkshire

Test 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 Test Automation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
West Yorkshire -20 65 £51,250 -14.58% 6
South Yorkshire -30 19 £65,465 +19.03% 3
North Yorkshire +13 5 £55,000 -4.35%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (4.76%) Tuxedo
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.86%) Azure
2 27 (25.71%) AWS
3 17 (16.19%) GCP
4 14 (13.33%) GitHub
4 14 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) SaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Serverless
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.90%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.90%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (1.90%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.90%) PaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) 3G
1 13 (12.38%) 4G
1 13 (12.38%) MQTT
1 13 (12.38%) RS-485
1 13 (12.38%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (12.38%) Wireless
2 4 (3.81%) HTTP
3 2 (1.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.95%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) MongoDB
1 9 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.67%) MySQL
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (20.00%) Selenium
2 14 (13.33%) CircleCI
2 14 (13.33%) Git
3 12 (11.43%) JMeter
4 10 (9.52%) Postman
5 9 (8.57%) MSTest
6 8 (7.62%) LoadRunner
6 8 (7.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (6.67%) Appium
8 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.76%) HP UFT
8 5 (4.76%) JIRA
8 5 (4.76%) SpecFlow
9 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.81%) Moq
9 4 (3.81%) Protractor
9 4 (3.81%) Visual Studio
10 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
11 2 (1.90%) LoadUI
11 2 (1.90%) Mocha
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.43%) Mandarin Language
4 6 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Automotive
4 6 (5.71%) Electronics
4 6 (5.71%) Finance
4 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.76%) Retail
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Marketing
7 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.90%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.95%) Games
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Software Engineer
2 30 (28.57%) Senior
3 19 (18.10%) Embedded Engineer
3 19 (18.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (11.43%) Test Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Software Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Software Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Tester
10 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) REST
2 15 (14.29%) RESTful
3 11 (10.48%) .NET
4 8 (7.62%) Node.js
5 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.76%) Web Services
7 4 (3.81%) Gherkin
7 4 (3.81%) HTML
7 4 (3.81%) Playwright
7 4 (3.81%) React
8 3 (2.86%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.86%) CSS
8 3 (2.86%) JSON
9 2 (1.90%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.90%) JSON Schema
9 2 (1.90%) OAuth
9 2 (1.90%) Swagger
9 2 (1.90%) Vue
9 2 (1.90%) XML
9 2 (1.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.62%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.81%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.81%) NHS
6 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) Linux
2 13 (12.38%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (8.57%) Windows
4 6 (5.71%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.95%) Android
6 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) Agile
2 44 (41.90%) Software Engineering
3 43 (40.95%) Software Testing
4 40 (38.10%) DevOps
5 32 (30.48%) Mentoring
6 29 (27.62%) CI/CD
7 20 (19.05%) Open Source
8 19 (18.10%) Coaching
8 19 (18.10%) TDD
9 16 (15.24%) BDD
9 16 (15.24%) Containerisation
9 16 (15.24%) OO
9 16 (15.24%) User Experience
10 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (14.29%) OOD
11 14 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (13.33%) Regression Testing
12 13 (12.38%) Continuous Deployment
13 12 (11.43%) Scrum
13 12 (11.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.29%) JavaScript
2 22 (20.95%) Python
3 21 (20.00%) SQL
4 19 (18.10%) C
4 19 (18.10%) Java
5 17 (16.19%) C#
6 13 (12.38%) C++
7 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.76%) COBOL
8 5 (4.76%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 2 (1.90%) Groovy
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) PHP
10 1 (0.95%) Ruby
10 1 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 8 (7.62%) ISTQB
3 7 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) PhD
7 2 (1.90%) CIPD
7 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.90%) ISEB
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.76%) QA
2 13 (12.38%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (17.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.76%) Micro Focus
3 4 (3.81%) BT
4 3 (2.86%) ANSYS
5 2 (1.90%) Brio
5 2 (1.90%) Google
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.95%) Cadence
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow