Test Automation Jobs in West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 59 29
Rank change year-on-year -24 -30 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 81 238 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.58% 5.02% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 5.11% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67 81 252
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £34,040
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +19.59% +0.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,107 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.60% +5.63%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,615 4,657 4,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 83.28% 98.15% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,874 2,204 3,069
10th Percentile £28,075 £34,025 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £86,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £51,125
% change year-on-year -8.90% +7.35% +7.63%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Leeds -21 70 £52,500 -19.23% 8
Wakefield +19 7 £55,000 +27.91%
Bradford +2 2 £65,000 -
Halifax +32 1 £70,576 +66.06%
Ilkley - 1 £42,500 -
Test Automation
Yorkshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (12.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) Azure
2 32 (39.51%) AWS
3 26 (32.10%) GCP
4 12 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (11.11%) GitHub
5 9 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Slack
7 6 (7.41%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (7.41%) BrowserStack
8 4 (4.94%) SaaS
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.47%) Serverless
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeStar
10 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Internet
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) HTTP
3 1 (1.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.88%) Data Lake
2 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.70%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (32.10%) Selenium
2 22 (27.16%) Git
3 17 (20.99%) CircleCI
4 12 (14.81%) JIRA
5 11 (13.58%) Cucumber
5 11 (13.58%) JMeter
5 11 (13.58%) Postman
6 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
6 9 (11.11%) JUnit
7 8 (9.88%) GitLab
8 7 (8.64%) Appium
8 7 (8.64%) MSTest
9 6 (7.41%) HP UFT
10 5 (6.17%) Cypress.io
10 5 (6.17%) LoadRunner
10 5 (6.17%) SpecFlow
10 5 (6.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (4.94%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
General
1 35 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Finance
3 14 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Automotive
5 6 (7.41%) Electronics
5 6 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.94%) Marketing
6 4 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.70%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.47%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Games
9 1 (1.23%) Local Government
9 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Lead
1 17 (20.99%) Senior
2 11 (13.58%) Software Engineer
2 11 (13.58%) Test Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) QA Leader
6 6 (7.41%) Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Software Engineering Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Software Manager
7 5 (6.17%) Administrator
7 5 (6.17%) Pensions Administrator
7 5 (6.17%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) RESTful
2 11 (13.58%) .NET
3 6 (7.41%) Node.js
3 6 (7.41%) Web Services
4 4 (4.94%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.94%) Gherkin
4 4 (4.94%) HTML
4 4 (4.94%) XML
4 4 (4.94%) XSLT
5 3 (3.70%) Playwright
6 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.47%) Blazor
6 2 (2.47%) CSS
6 2 (2.47%) Jest
6 2 (2.47%) OAuth
6 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.47%) React
6 2 (2.47%) Sass
6 2 (2.47%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.88%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.88%) NHS
3 6 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (2.47%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.85%) Agile
2 40 (49.38%) DevOps
3 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
3 32 (39.51%) Software Testing
4 23 (28.40%) Mentoring
5 22 (27.16%) Coaching
6 21 (25.93%) BDD
7 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
8 17 (20.99%) Containerisation
9 15 (18.52%) Roadmaps
10 13 (16.05%) Test Scripting
11 12 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (14.81%) Open Source
12 11 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (13.58%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) Performance Testing
13 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (12.35%) TDD
14 9 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (11.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) SQL
2 18 (22.22%) C#
3 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.11%) Python
5 8 (9.88%) Java
6 6 (7.41%) C
7 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.94%) Groovy
9 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.23%) Ruby
10 1 (1.23%) Swift
10 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) ISTQB
3 6 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) CIPD
5 4 (4.94%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) ISEB
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.46%) QA
2 8 (9.88%) GDPR
2 8 (9.88%) PSD2
3 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.94%) VMware Server
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) Google
3 8 (9.88%) Duck Creek
4 4 (4.94%) VMware
5 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Brio
6 2 (2.47%) BT
7 1 (1.23%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.23%) Cadence
7 1 (1.23%) Splunk