Test Automation Jobs in Cheshire

Automated Testing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -28
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 42 40 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.34% 4.85% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 5.21% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26 6 12
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £41,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +65.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £74,188 £57,682
90th Percentile - £79,250 £58,228
North West median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year -2.17% +8.26% +18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,351 768 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 75.31% 93.20% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 993 443 595
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,420 £26,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £59,787
90th Percentile £73,750 £91,000 £71,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.14%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Cheshire

Test Automation
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Warrington - 22 £62,500 - 3
Wilmslow - 5 £47,500 - 1
Crewe +2 3 £45,000 -33.33%
Chester +1 1 £32,500 -
Knutsford -6 1 - - 5
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130,000 -
Winsford - 1 £40,000 -
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (9.52%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) SaaS
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
3 7 (16.67%) OCI
3 7 (16.67%) Route 53
4 4 (9.52%) Azure
5 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Selenium
2 8 (19.05%) JMeter
2 8 (19.05%) TeamCity
3 5 (11.90%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.52%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) JUnit
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
4 4 (9.52%) SpecFlow
4 4 (9.52%) TestNG
4 4 (9.52%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.52%) WebDriver
5 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.76%) JIRA
7 1 (2.38%) TestCafe
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Senior
2 11 (26.19%) Tester
3 8 (19.05%) Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Automation Tester
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) QA Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) QA Analyst
6 5 (11.90%) QA Tester
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Tester
7 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
7 4 (9.52%) QA Automation Analyst
7 4 (9.52%) QA Automation Tester
7 4 (9.52%) Selenium Test Analyst
7 4 (9.52%) Selenium Tester
7 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Gherkin
2 6 (14.29%) .NET
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) HTML
3 4 (9.52%) React
4 3 (7.14%) Playwright
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.38%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 7 (16.67%) e-Learning
1 7 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 4 (9.52%) SCADA
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 13 (30.95%) Software Testing
5 12 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 11 (26.19%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 8 (19.05%) Manual Testing
8 8 (19.05%) Test Management
8 8 (19.05%) Test Strategy
9 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (16.67%) BDD
9 7 (16.67%) Coaching
9 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (16.67%) Observability
9 7 (16.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) JavaScript
2 15 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 4 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) VB.NET
5 3 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 7 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 7 (16.67%) IBM
1 7 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.52%) Facebook
3 3 (7.14%) BT
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft