Test Automation Jobs in Yorkshire

Automated Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 44 34
Rank change year-on-year -70 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 109 569 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.90% 6.82% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 6.96% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 80 155 342
10th Percentile £37,225 £36,450 £33,825
25th Percentile £45,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £71,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,838 8,170 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.18% 97.90% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,697 3,542 4,606
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,298
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -24 77 £55,000 -4.35% 27
South Yorkshire -58 17 £58,982 +17.96% 6
North Yorkshire -18 2 £45,000 -14.29% 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 10 (9.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.45%) Azure
2 34 (31.19%) AWS
3 20 (18.35%) GCP
4 11 (10.09%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.34%) Slack
7 7 (6.42%) BrowserStack
8 6 (5.50%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.67%) Serverless
10 3 (2.75%) SaaS
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.92%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.01%) 3G
1 12 (11.01%) 4G
1 12 (11.01%) MQTT
1 12 (11.01%) RS-485
1 12 (11.01%) Wi-Fi
1 12 (11.01%) Wireless
2 4 (3.67%) Internet
3 3 (2.75%) Firewall
4 2 (1.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.92%) Broadband
5 1 (0.92%) Multicast
5 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.26%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.34%) Data Lake
4 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.42%) MySQL
6 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.92%) GIS
Development Applications
1 31 (28.44%) Selenium
2 25 (22.94%) Git
3 15 (13.76%) JIRA
4 14 (12.84%) JMeter
5 13 (11.93%) Cucumber
5 13 (11.93%) Postman
6 12 (11.01%) CircleCI
7 11 (10.09%) Appium
8 9 (8.26%) GitLab
8 9 (8.26%) Jenkins
8 9 (8.26%) JUnit
8 9 (8.26%) LoadRunner
9 7 (6.42%) MSTest
10 6 (5.50%) HP UFT
11 5 (4.59%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (3.67%) Cypress.io
12 4 (3.67%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (3.67%) Protractor
12 4 (3.67%) SpecFlow
12 4 (3.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Finance
3 12 (11.01%) Mandarin Language
3 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.26%) Banking
5 6 (5.50%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Automotive
5 6 (5.50%) Electronics
5 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
6 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.75%) Retail
7 3 (2.75%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.92%) Games
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Software Engineer
2 22 (20.18%) Lead
3 19 (17.43%) Senior
4 18 (16.51%) Embedded Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) QA Leader
7 7 (6.42%) Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Software Engineering Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Software Manager
8 5 (4.59%) Administrator
8 5 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Pensions Administrator
8 5 (4.59%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.51%) RESTful
2 16 (14.68%) REST
3 12 (11.01%) .NET
4 6 (5.50%) Node.js
4 6 (5.50%) Web Services
5 5 (4.59%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.59%) HTML
6 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.67%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.67%) XML
6 4 (3.67%) XSLT
7 3 (2.75%) CSS
7 3 (2.75%) Playwright
7 3 (2.75%) React
8 2 (1.83%) Blazor
8 2 (1.83%) Jest
8 2 (1.83%) OAuth
8 2 (1.83%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.83%) Sass
8 2 (1.83%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.34%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.42%) NHS
4 6 (5.50%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.67%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.84%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (5.50%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (2.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.92%) Android
5 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.14%) Agile
2 49 (44.95%) Software Testing
3 39 (35.78%) Software Engineering
4 37 (33.94%) DevOps
5 31 (28.44%) CI/CD
6 29 (26.61%) Coaching
7 28 (25.69%) BDD
8 26 (23.85%) Mentoring
9 19 (17.43%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (16.51%) Continuous Deployment
11 16 (14.68%) Microservices
11 16 (14.68%) TDD
12 15 (13.76%) Performance Testing
12 15 (13.76%) Regression Testing
12 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
12 15 (13.76%) Test Scripting
13 14 (12.84%) Scrum
13 14 (12.84%) User Experience
14 12 (11.01%) OO
14 12 (11.01%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.61%) JavaScript
2 28 (25.69%) SQL
3 19 (17.43%) C#
3 19 (17.43%) Java
4 18 (16.51%) C
5 12 (11.01%) C++
5 12 (11.01%) Python
6 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.59%) Groovy
8 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Bash
9 1 (0.92%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) PHP
9 1 (0.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.92%) Swift
9 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) ISTQB
3 6 (5.50%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.67%) CIPD
5 4 (3.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.75%) ISEB
6 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.77%) QA
2 20 (18.35%) GDPR
3 8 (7.34%) PSD2
4 5 (4.59%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Server
3 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.50%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Ansible
3 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Google
3 8 (7.34%) Duck Creek
4 4 (3.67%) VMware
5 2 (1.83%) Brio
5 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.92%) BT
6 1 (0.92%) Cadence
6 1 (0.92%) Infor
6 1 (0.92%) New Relic
6 1 (0.92%) Splunk