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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 119 39
Rank change year-on-year +17 -80 -5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 64 113 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.92% 1.68% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.13% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 49 80 112
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,538
25th Percentile £47,000 £44,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,991 £75,777
90th Percentile £97,528 £95,000 £87,350
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 2,989 5,309 6,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.84% 79.07% 97.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 3,886 3,313
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +7.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,650 £80,000 £82,500
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +16 44 £65,900 +28.59% 136
South Yorkshire +41 14 £32,500 -45.83% 54
North Yorkshire -3 2 £58,000 +5.45% 28
Humberside - 2 £58,000 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £43,750 - 9
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 (17.19%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.25%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.56%) CICS
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) Azure
2 25 (39.06%) GCP
3 9 (14.06%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) GitHub
4 5 (7.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.13%) Apigee
5 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) mabl
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) SAN
2 5 (7.81%) Multicast
3 4 (6.25%) BGP
3 4 (6.25%) EIGRP
3 4 (6.25%) Network Security
3 4 (6.25%) OSPF
3 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) DHCP
4 1 (1.56%) DNS
4 1 (1.56%) Firewall
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) MongoDB
1 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.38%) DB2
4 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
5 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.19%) JIRA
3 10 (15.63%) Git
4 9 (14.06%) Selenium
5 7 (10.94%) Cucumber
6 6 (9.38%) SonarQube
7 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (6.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (4.69%) JUnit
9 3 (4.69%) Postman
10 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.13%) GitLab
10 2 (3.13%) JDeveloper
10 2 (3.13%) Maven
10 2 (3.13%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.56%) JMeter
11 1 (1.56%) Katalon Studio
General
1 32 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (43.75%) Finance
3 27 (42.19%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Law
6 4 (6.25%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Senior
2 15 (23.44%) Software Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Developer
5 6 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 6 (9.38%) Quality Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Lead Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Spring
1 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
2 9 (14.06%) RESTful
3 8 (12.50%) CSS
3 8 (12.50%) HTML
4 7 (10.94%) JWT
4 7 (10.94%) OAuth
4 7 (10.94%) OAuth2
5 5 (7.81%) Playwright
5 5 (7.81%) React
5 5 (7.81%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) Django
6 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.69%) Flask
6 3 (4.69%) Middleware
6 3 (4.69%) Node.js
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle ADF
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.13%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.81%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (7.81%) Replication
4 4 (6.25%) Credit Risk
4 4 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.56%) FMCG
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.13%) Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) DevOps
2 36 (56.25%) Agile
3 26 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.81%) Containerisation
5 20 (31.25%) Microservices
6 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Scrum
8 15 (23.44%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (21.88%) TDD
10 10 (15.63%) BDD
11 9 (14.06%) Analytics
11 9 (14.06%) Code Quality
11 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
11 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.06%) Migration
12 8 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (12.50%) Data Science
13 7 (10.94%) Clean Code
13 7 (10.94%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Python
2 24 (37.50%) Java
3 18 (28.13%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.25%) Groovy
5 4 (6.25%) R
5 4 (6.25%) Rust
5 4 (6.25%) Scala
6 3 (4.69%) C#
6 3 (4.69%) Go
6 3 (4.69%) PHP
7 2 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) JCL
8 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.69%) OCP
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Basel II
1 4 (6.25%) Basel III
1 4 (6.25%) Dodd-Frank
1 4 (6.25%) GDPR
1 4 (6.25%) IFRS
1 4 (6.25%) IFRS 9
1 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (26.56%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.06%) Ansible
2 9 (14.06%) Terraform
3 5 (7.81%) Istio
4 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.69%) Argo
5 3 (4.69%) Grafana
5 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Cisco
2 9 (14.06%) IBM
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle
4 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.81%) VMware
6 4 (6.25%) Databricks
6 4 (6.25%) Palantir
7 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.56%) Brocade
8 1 (1.56%) CyberSource
8 1 (1.56%) EMC
8 1 (1.56%) Google
8 1 (1.56%) HP
8 1 (1.56%) Sophos