Test Automation Jobs in the North East

Automated Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 97 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -52 +22 -13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 27 66 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.24% 5.55% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 5.71% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 33 38
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,350 £36,550
25th Percentile £54,375 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,232 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.71% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,991 £66,250 £62,875
90th Percentile £72,167 £68,500 £80,000
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
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,805 1,155 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 83.18% 97.06% 88.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 583 980
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +15.61% -3.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,375
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in the North East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in the North East

Test Automation
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -42 25 £65,465 +13.85% 8
Northumberland - 2 £50,750 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) SaaS
3 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 7 (25.93%) PowerApps
4 5 (18.52%) Power Automate
5 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Fabric
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) MySQL
2 8 (29.63%) MongoDB
2 8 (29.63%) NoSQL
2 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.70%) Bugzilla
2 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) JUnit
2 1 (3.70%) Mockito
2 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 10 (37.04%) Law
2 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Financial Institution
3 5 (18.52%) Legal
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Java Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Applications Manager
4 5 (18.52%) IT Manager
4 5 (18.52%) Senior IT Manager
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Manager
5 4 (14.81%) Lead
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Consultant
6 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
6 3 (11.11%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.70%) Laravel
5 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
5 1 (3.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Low-Code
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
3 11 (40.74%) Mentoring
4 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (29.63%) Coaching
5 8 (29.63%) CRM
5 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 8 (29.63%) TDD
6 7 (25.93%) BDD
6 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (18.52%) Business Enablement
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (18.52%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
7 5 (18.52%) Service Catalogue
7 5 (18.52%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (18.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Automation Anywhere
2 5 (18.52%) iManage
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle