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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 116 45
Rank change year-on-year +37 -71 -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 71 108 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.66% 1.87% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.23% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 52 80 144
10th Percentile £31,875 £37,225 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,973 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +4.76% +0.72%
75th Percentile £93,778 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 2,513 4,834 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 94.01% 83.89% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 3,700 3,509
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +30 49 £74,870 +38.01% 39
South Yorkshire +48 15 £35,218 -41.30% 15
North Yorkshire +1 2 £58,000 +28.89% 8
Humberside - 2 £58,000 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £43,750 - 3
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 11 (15.49%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) SAS
3 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) CICS
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) GCP
2 29 (40.85%) Azure
3 10 (14.08%) AWS
4 7 (9.86%) GitHub
4 7 (9.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (5.63%) Apigee
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.41%) mabl
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) SAN
2 5 (7.04%) Multicast
3 4 (5.63%) BGP
3 4 (5.63%) EIGRP
3 4 (5.63%) Network Security
3 4 (5.63%) OSPF
3 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.27%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.45%) DB2
4 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.23%) MySQL
5 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.54%) Git
3 12 (16.90%) JIRA
4 9 (12.68%) SonarQube
5 8 (11.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
6 7 (9.86%) Selenium
7 6 (8.45%) JUnit
8 5 (7.04%) Maven
9 4 (5.63%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (4.23%) CircleCI
10 3 (4.23%) GitLab
11 2 (2.82%) JDeveloper
11 2 (2.82%) Postman
12 1 (1.41%) Gradle
12 1 (1.41%) JMeter
12 1 (1.41%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.41%) Spinnaker
12 1 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 39 (54.93%) Social Skills
2 36 (50.70%) Finance
3 35 (49.30%) Banking
4 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.04%) Retail
7 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Legal
9 2 (2.82%) Law
10 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (33.80%) Senior
2 19 (26.76%) Software Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Lead
6 7 (9.86%) Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Quality Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) Spring Boot
2 12 (16.90%) Spring
3 7 (9.86%) JWT
3 7 (9.86%) OAuth
3 7 (9.86%) OAuth2
3 7 (9.86%) RESTful
4 6 (8.45%) REST
5 5 (7.04%) CSS
5 5 (7.04%) HTML
5 5 (7.04%) Playwright
6 4 (5.63%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.23%) Django
7 3 (4.23%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.23%) Flask
7 3 (4.23%) React
8 2 (2.82%) JSON
8 2 (2.82%) Middleware
8 2 (2.82%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (2.82%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.82%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (19.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.27%) Credit Risk
3 8 (11.27%) Market Risk
4 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
5 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (7.04%) Replication
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.63%) Mainframe
6 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.23%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.41%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (5.63%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) Android
5 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (71.83%) DevOps
2 40 (56.34%) Agile
3 37 (52.11%) CI/CD
4 27 (38.03%) Containerisation
5 26 (36.62%) Microservices
6 22 (30.99%) Software Engineering
7 17 (23.94%) TDD
8 16 (22.54%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (22.54%) Scrum
9 14 (19.72%) Analytics
10 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (16.90%) BDD
11 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (15.49%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (15.49%) Mentoring
13 10 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (14.08%) Data Science
14 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Java
1 28 (39.44%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) SQL
3 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.86%) R
4 5 (7.04%) Groovy
5 4 (5.63%) Rust
6 3 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) Scala
7 2 (2.82%) C++
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 1 (1.41%) JCL
8 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Degree
2 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) OCP
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) GDPR
2 8 (11.27%) Basel III
2 8 (11.27%) IFRS
2 8 (11.27%) IFRS 9
3 7 (9.86%) Basel II
3 7 (9.86%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (9.86%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.63%) QA
5 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.23%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (39.44%) Kubernetes
2 14 (19.72%) Terraform
3 10 (14.08%) Ansible
4 7 (9.86%) Istio
5 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.23%) Argo
6 3 (4.23%) Grafana
6 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.41%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (1.41%) Packer
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Cisco
1 10 (14.08%) IBM
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Oracle
2 5 (7.04%) VMware
3 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.23%) Databricks
4 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.23%) Palantir
5 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.41%) Brocade
5 1 (1.41%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.41%) EMC
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) HP