Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 29 54
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 242 693 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.01% 7.62% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 7.89% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 203 230 358
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £29,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,875 £72,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,825 8,779 10,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.53% 96.51% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,184 4,440 6,901
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,975 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.75%
75th Percentile £62,342 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 Midlands -61 181 £52,500 -4.55% 54
East Midlands -94 60 £47,500 -13.64% 23
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (0.41%) Confluence
1 1 (0.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.34%) Azure
2 59 (24.38%) AWS
3 19 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.44%) GitHub
5 13 (5.37%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.55%) SaaS
8 9 (3.72%) PaaS
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.31%) IaaS
9 8 (3.31%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.31%) OCI
9 8 (3.31%) Route 53
10 6 (2.48%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.07%) Serverless
11 5 (2.07%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.89%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.07%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.65%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.65%) HTTP
3 4 (1.65%) MQTT
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.65%) Wireless
4 3 (1.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) Internet
5 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.41%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.96%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.13%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.89%) InterSystems Cache
6 7 (2.89%) MySQL
7 6 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.07%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (2.07%) Power BI
9 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (14.05%) Git
2 20 (8.26%) Selenium
3 16 (6.61%) Cucumber
3 16 (6.61%) JIRA
3 16 (6.61%) Postman
4 13 (5.37%) SoapUI
5 12 (4.96%) JMeter
5 12 (4.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (4.13%) MSTest
6 10 (4.13%) Visual Studio
7 8 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.89%) LabVIEW
9 6 (2.48%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.48%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.48%) TestRail
10 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.65%) Appium
11 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
11 4 (1.65%) JUnit
12 3 (1.24%) JBehave
General
1 55 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.05%) Finance
3 28 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.02%) Automotive
7 13 (5.37%) Banking
8 12 (4.96%) Law
9 9 (3.72%) Electronics
9 9 (3.72%) Retail
10 7 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Police
14 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.83%) Games
16 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
16 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (26.45%) Developer
2 33 (13.64%) Senior
3 28 (11.57%) Software Engineer
4 25 (10.33%) Lead
5 24 (9.92%) Test Engineer
6 15 (6.20%) QA Leader
6 15 (6.20%) Tester
7 14 (5.79%) QA Engineer
7 14 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 11 (4.55%) Test Leader
10 10 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Applications Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Test Manager
12 8 (3.31%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.12%) .NET
2 23 (9.50%) React
3 22 (9.09%) HTML
4 21 (8.68%) REST
5 15 (6.20%) XML
6 14 (5.79%) .NET Core
6 14 (5.79%) CSS
7 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.37%) SOAP
8 10 (4.13%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.13%) JSON
8 10 (4.13%) Spring
8 10 (4.13%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.72%) RESTful
9 9 (3.72%) Web Services
10 8 (3.31%) ARM Templates
10 8 (3.31%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (3.31%) Blazor
10 8 (3.31%) Playwright
11 6 (2.48%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.05%) Product Ownership
2 27 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (10.74%) Mobile App
4 18 (7.44%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.20%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.13%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.31%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.48%) IoT
10 5 (2.07%) FMCG
11 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.83%) Infotainment
12 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.83%) Mobile Computing
13 1 (0.41%) Acoustics
13 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.41%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Linux
2 6 (2.48%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.24%) Android
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (55.37%) Agile
2 84 (34.71%) DevOps
3 69 (28.51%) Mentoring
3 69 (28.51%) Software Testing
4 46 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (17.36%) Functional Testing
5 42 (17.36%) Software Engineering
6 40 (16.53%) SDLC
7 37 (15.29%) CI/CD
7 37 (15.29%) Test Strategy
8 33 (13.64%) Scrum
9 30 (12.40%) Test Scripting
10 28 (11.57%) Non-Functional Testing
11 27 (11.16%) Coaching
12 26 (10.74%) Performance Testing
12 26 (10.74%) Security Testing
13 25 (10.33%) Containerisation
13 25 (10.33%) Manual Testing
14 23 (9.50%) API Testing
14 23 (9.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.17%) C#
2 54 (22.31%) SQL
3 38 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.88%) Java
4 36 (14.88%) Python
5 22 (9.09%) C
6 13 (5.37%) C++
7 9 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.89%) PHP
9 5 (2.07%) Embedded C
9 5 (2.07%) Embedded C++
9 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.65%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.65%) VB
11 3 (1.24%) Dart
11 3 (1.24%) Groovy
11 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.24%) Ruby
11 3 (1.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (14.88%) Degree
2 20 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.89%) ISEB
5 7 (2.89%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (32.23%) QA
2 9 (3.72%) NCSC
3 6 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) JTAG
4 3 (1.24%) MISRA
4 3 (1.24%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (8.68%) Docker
2 8 (3.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.26%) Terraform
3 8 (3.31%) Ansible
3 8 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.55%) IBM
3 8 (3.31%) Databricks
3 8 (3.31%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.31%) Xamarin
4 7 (2.89%) InterSystems
5 6 (2.48%) Google
5 6 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.48%) Oracle
5 6 (2.48%) SAP
5 6 (2.48%) YouTube
6 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.07%) SYSPRO
7 4 (1.65%) Siemens
8 3 (1.24%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.24%) Telerik
9 1 (0.41%) Denodo
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk