Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 92 31 63
Rank change year-on-year -61 +32 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 181 473 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.43% 7.56% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 7.81% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 155 161 200
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £75,750 £78,750 £84,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,151 6,054 7,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.46% 96.77% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,148 4,749
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,602 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the West Midlands

Test Automation
Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -31 73 £50,000 -16.67% 21
Warwickshire -20 26 £44,000 -14.67% 8
Staffordshire -24 17 £63,750 +34.21% 4
Coventry -14 14 £49,000 -10.91% 6
Shropshire -21 11 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Solihull +2 8 £50,000 -4.76% 1
Worcestershire -17 8 £50,000 +21.90% 7
Wolverhampton -2 4 £60,000 - 2
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (0.55%) Confluence
1 1 (0.55%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.18%) Azure
2 44 (24.31%) AWS
3 18 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (9.94%) GitHub
4 12 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.97%) PaaS
5 9 (4.97%) SaaS
6 8 (4.42%) IaaS
7 6 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.76%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (2.76%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.76%) Serverless
8 5 (2.76%) WhatsApp
9 4 (2.21%) GCP
10 3 (1.66%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.87%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.76%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.21%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.21%) MQTT
3 4 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.21%) Wireless
4 3 (1.66%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.10%) 5G
5 2 (1.10%) HTTP
6 1 (0.55%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.55%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.55%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.63%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.52%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.87%) InterSystems Cache
5 7 (3.87%) MySQL
6 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.76%) Crystal Reports
7 5 (2.76%) Power BI
8 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (16.02%) Git
2 11 (6.08%) Postman
2 11 (6.08%) Selenium
3 10 (5.52%) Cucumber
3 10 (5.52%) MSTest
4 8 (4.42%) JIRA
4 8 (4.42%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.42%) Visual Studio
5 7 (3.87%) LabVIEW
6 5 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.76%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.21%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.66%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (1.66%) JMeter
8 3 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.10%) Maven
9 2 (1.10%) NUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) JUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Moq
General
1 49 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
3 28 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.39%) Automotive
4 17 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.63%) Banking
7 9 (4.97%) Electronics
8 6 (3.31%) Retail
9 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.21%) Police
11 3 (1.66%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Law
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (25.41%) Developer
2 28 (15.47%) Senior
3 25 (13.81%) Software Engineer
4 20 (11.05%) Test Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) Lead
6 12 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) IT Manager
7 11 (6.08%) Tester
8 10 (5.52%) QA Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Audit Manager
10 7 (3.87%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.31%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.23%) .NET
2 17 (9.39%) React
3 15 (8.29%) HTML
3 15 (8.29%) XML
4 13 (7.18%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.63%) .NET Core
6 11 (6.08%) REST
7 10 (5.52%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.52%) JSON
7 10 (5.52%) Spring
7 10 (5.52%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.97%) RESTful
8 9 (4.97%) Web Services
9 8 (4.42%) ARM Templates
9 8 (4.42%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (4.42%) Blazor
10 7 (3.87%) CSS
11 5 (2.76%) EDI
11 5 (2.76%) Node.js
11 5 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.13%) Product Ownership
2 26 (14.36%) Mobile App
3 20 (11.05%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (9.94%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.63%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.31%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Infotainment
9 1 (0.55%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.55%) FMCG
9 1 (0.55%) Genomics
9 1 (0.55%) NHS
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Windows
2 5 (2.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.21%) Unix
4 3 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.59%) Agile
2 63 (34.81%) DevOps
3 58 (32.04%) Software Testing
4 55 (30.39%) Mentoring
5 42 (23.20%) Functional Testing
6 37 (20.44%) Software Engineering
7 34 (18.78%) CI/CD
7 34 (18.78%) Test Strategy
8 33 (18.23%) Scrum
9 31 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.13%) SDLC
10 28 (15.47%) Non-Functional Testing
10 28 (15.47%) Test Scripting
11 26 (14.36%) Security Testing
12 20 (11.05%) Computer Science
12 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.05%) TDD
13 19 (10.50%) BDD
13 19 (10.50%) Performance Testing
13 19 (10.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.62%) C#
1 50 (27.62%) SQL
2 29 (16.02%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.47%) Python
4 27 (14.92%) Java
5 17 (9.39%) C
6 10 (5.52%) C++
7 8 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.76%) Embedded C
8 5 (2.76%) Embedded C++
8 5 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.76%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.21%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.21%) VB
10 3 (1.66%) Dart
10 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) R
12 1 (0.55%) Swift
12 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (18.23%) Degree
2 17 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (29.83%) QA
2 9 (4.97%) NCSC
3 6 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.66%) JTAG
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (11.05%) Docker
2 5 (2.76%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.08%) Terraform
3 8 (4.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.42%) Databricks
2 8 (4.42%) Xamarin
3 7 (3.87%) InterSystems
4 6 (3.31%) Google
4 6 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (3.31%) Oracle
4 6 (3.31%) SAP
4 6 (3.31%) YouTube
5 5 (2.76%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.76%) SYSPRO
6 3 (1.66%) IBM
6 3 (1.66%) Lauterbach
6 3 (1.66%) Telerik
7 1 (0.55%) Denodo
7 1 (0.55%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.55%) Splunk
7 1 (0.55%) Talend