Test Automation Jobs in the Midlands

Automated Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 27 55
Rank change year-on-year -109 +28 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 244 673 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.74% 7.92% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 8.22% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 195 232 365
10th Percentile £32,800 £38,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,125 £47,188 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,875 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,001
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 12 June 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 12 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
West Midlands -79 182 £52,500 -12.50% 46
East Midlands -113 61 £47,500 -13.64% 22
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 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.92%) Azure
2 57 (23.36%) AWS
3 22 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.97%) GitHub
5 13 (5.33%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (4.92%) SaaS
7 11 (4.51%) PaaS
8 10 (4.10%) IaaS
9 9 (3.69%) OCI
10 8 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.28%) IBM Cloud
10 8 (3.28%) Route 53
11 6 (2.46%) BrowserStack
11 6 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.87%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.05%) Bluetooth
2 5 (2.05%) HTTP
3 4 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.64%) Wireless
4 3 (1.23%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.23%) MQTT
5 2 (0.82%) 5G
5 2 (0.82%) Internet
5 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) SCTP
6 1 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.10%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.28%) MySQL
6 7 (2.87%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.05%) Power BI
9 4 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Redis
11 1 (0.41%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (14.34%) Git
2 19 (7.79%) Selenium
3 16 (6.56%) Postman
4 15 (6.15%) JIRA
5 13 (5.33%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.92%) JMeter
6 12 (4.92%) SoapUI
7 11 (4.51%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (4.10%) MSTest
9 9 (3.69%) LabVIEW
9 9 (3.69%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.46%) SpecFlow
11 5 (2.05%) Jenkins
11 5 (2.05%) TestRail
12 4 (1.64%) Appium
12 4 (1.64%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.64%) JUnit
13 3 (1.23%) JBehave
General
1 63 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.48%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.79%) Automotive
7 14 (5.74%) Law
8 12 (4.92%) Banking
9 11 (4.51%) Retail
10 9 (3.69%) Electronics
11 8 (3.28%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.64%) Police
15 3 (1.23%) Games
15 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
17 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (25.82%) Developer
2 33 (13.52%) Senior
3 29 (11.89%) Software Engineer
4 25 (10.25%) Test Engineer
5 23 (9.43%) Lead
6 16 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.33%) Tester
8 12 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (4.92%) Test Leader
9 11 (4.51%) IT Manager
9 11 (4.51%) QA Leader
10 10 (4.10%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Applications Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Test Manager
12 8 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.28%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.98%) .NET
2 24 (9.84%) HTML
2 24 (9.84%) React
3 19 (7.79%) REST
4 15 (6.15%) .NET Core
4 15 (6.15%) CSS
5 14 (5.74%) XML
6 12 (4.92%) ASP.NET
6 12 (4.92%) SOAP
7 11 (4.51%) ARM Templates
7 11 (4.51%) JSON
7 11 (4.51%) Web Services
8 10 (4.10%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.10%) Azure Blueprints
9 9 (3.69%) Playwright
10 8 (3.28%) Blazor
10 8 (3.28%) Node.js
10 8 (3.28%) RESTful
11 7 (2.87%) Spring
11 7 (2.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.89%) Product Ownership
2 27 (11.07%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (9.84%) Mobile App
4 20 (8.20%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.15%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.10%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.28%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.46%) IoT
10 5 (2.05%) FMCG
11 4 (1.64%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.82%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.82%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.82%) Infotainment
12 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.82%) Mobile Computing
13 1 (0.41%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.69%) Linux
1 9 (3.69%) Windows
2 4 (1.64%) Unix
3 3 (1.23%) Android
3 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (53.69%) Agile
2 89 (36.48%) DevOps
3 70 (28.69%) Mentoring
3 70 (28.69%) Software Testing
4 49 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (18.44%) Software Engineering
6 43 (17.62%) Functional Testing
7 40 (16.39%) SDLC
8 36 (14.75%) CI/CD
9 35 (14.34%) Test Strategy
10 32 (13.11%) Test Scripting
11 29 (11.89%) Scrum
12 28 (11.48%) Performance Testing
12 28 (11.48%) Security Testing
13 27 (11.07%) Containerisation
13 27 (11.07%) Non-Functional Testing
14 26 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (10.25%) Coaching
16 24 (9.84%) Computer Science
16 24 (9.84%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 71 (29.10%) C#
2 51 (20.90%) SQL
3 41 (16.80%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.75%) Python
5 33 (13.52%) Java
6 24 (9.84%) C
7 16 (6.56%) C++
8 9 (3.69%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.87%) PHP
10 6 (2.46%) Embedded C
10 6 (2.46%) Embedded C++
11 5 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.64%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.64%) VB
13 3 (1.23%) Groovy
13 3 (1.23%) Ruby
13 3 (1.23%) Rust
14 2 (0.82%) Bash
14 2 (0.82%) Dart
Qualifications
1 38 (15.57%) Degree
2 29 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.28%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.46%) ISEB
8 5 (2.05%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.82%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.82%) OSCP
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.41%) HNC
12 1 (0.41%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (28.28%) QA
2 11 (4.51%) NCSC
3 6 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.23%) JTAG
4 3 (1.23%) MISRA
4 3 (1.23%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.84%) Docker
2 8 (3.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (3.28%) Firmware
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.02%) Terraform
3 11 (4.51%) Ansible
4 8 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.92%) IBM
3 8 (3.28%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.28%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.87%) InterSystems
4 7 (2.87%) Xamarin
5 6 (2.46%) Databricks
5 6 (2.46%) Google
5 6 (2.46%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.46%) YouTube
6 5 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.05%) SAP
7 4 (1.64%) Siemens
7 4 (1.64%) SYSPRO
8 3 (1.23%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.23%) Oracle
8 3 (1.23%) Telerik
9 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Talend