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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 112 46
Rank change year-on-year +26 -66 -13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 67 111 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.36% 1.91% 6.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.29% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 50 84 126
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £44,063 £45,938 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,223 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% - +9.62%
75th Percentile £82,751 £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 2,670 4,844 7,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 94.15% 83.32% 98.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 3,720 3,421
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £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 £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £83,000
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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +20 44 £74,870 +39.94% 49
South Yorkshire +44 16 £37,500 -37.50% 21
North Yorkshire +4 2 £58,000 +5.45% 12
Humberside - 2 £58,000 - 1
East Yorkshire - 2 £43,750 - 2
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 (16.42%) Confluence
2 7 (10.45%) SAS
3 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) CICS
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) GCP
2 29 (43.28%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) AWS
4 6 (8.96%) GitHub
4 6 (8.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.48%) Apigee
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.49%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.49%) mabl
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) SAN
2 5 (7.46%) Multicast
3 4 (5.97%) BGP
3 4 (5.97%) EIGRP
3 4 (5.97%) Network Security
3 4 (5.97%) OSPF
3 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.96%) DB2
3 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.48%) MySQL
5 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.91%) Git
3 11 (16.42%) JIRA
4 8 (11.94%) Selenium
5 7 (10.45%) SonarQube
5 7 (10.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (8.96%) Cucumber
7 5 (7.46%) JUnit
8 4 (5.97%) IBM UrbanCode
8 4 (5.97%) Maven
9 2 (2.99%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.99%) GitLab
9 2 (2.99%) JDeveloper
9 2 (2.99%) Postman
10 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.49%) Gradle
10 1 (1.49%) JMeter
10 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.49%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.49%) TestNG
General
1 36 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 33 (49.25%) Finance
3 32 (47.76%) Banking
4 8 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Retail
7 3 (4.48%) Law
7 3 (4.48%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Senior
2 16 (23.88%) Software Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Lead
5 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.45%) Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Lead Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Quality Engineer
6 7 (10.45%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (8.96%) Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (8.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) Spring Boot
2 10 (14.93%) Spring
3 7 (10.45%) JWT
3 7 (10.45%) OAuth
3 7 (10.45%) OAuth2
4 6 (8.96%) CSS
4 6 (8.96%) HTML
4 6 (8.96%) RESTful
5 5 (7.46%) Playwright
5 5 (7.46%) REST
6 4 (5.97%) React
7 3 (4.48%) Django
7 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
7 3 (4.48%) Flask
7 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.99%) Middleware
8 2 (2.99%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.99%) Symfony
9 1 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Product Ownership
2 11 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.94%) Credit Risk
3 8 (11.94%) Market Risk
4 7 (10.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (7.46%) Replication
6 4 (5.97%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.48%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.49%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
3 3 (4.48%) Unix
4 2 (2.99%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (71.64%) DevOps
2 38 (56.72%) Agile
3 34 (50.75%) CI/CD
4 26 (38.81%) Containerisation
5 22 (32.84%) Microservices
6 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
7 16 (23.88%) Scrum
8 15 (22.39%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (20.90%) TDD
10 13 (19.40%) Analytics
11 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (14.93%) BDD
13 10 (14.93%) Continuous Deployment
13 10 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (14.93%) Data Science
14 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
14 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
15 8 (11.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) Python
2 24 (35.82%) Java
3 19 (28.36%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.45%) R
6 4 (5.97%) Groovy
6 4 (5.97%) Rust
7 3 (4.48%) C#
7 3 (4.48%) Scala
8 2 (2.99%) C++
8 2 (2.99%) Go
8 2 (2.99%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) JCL
9 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Degree
2 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.48%) OCP
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) GDPR
2 8 (11.94%) Basel III
2 8 (11.94%) IFRS
2 8 (11.94%) IFRS 9
3 7 (10.45%) Basel II
3 7 (10.45%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (10.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.48%) NIST
4 3 (4.48%) QA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.42%) Terraform
3 9 (13.43%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) Istio
5 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.48%) Argo
6 3 (4.48%) Grafana
6 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Cisco
2 9 (13.43%) IBM
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) VMware
4 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.48%) Databricks
4 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.48%) Palantir
5 1 (1.49%) Brocade
5 1 (1.49%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.49%) EMC
5 1 (1.49%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) HP