Test Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Automated Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 26 61
Rank change year-on-year -79 +35 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 182 449 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.12% 7.77% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 8.04% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 150 155 215
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,313 £50,000 £37,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £76,375 £78,750 £84,250
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,880 5,588 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.26% 96.69% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,789 3,127 4,852
10th Percentile £26,700 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £39,967 £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 £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
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 13 June 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 13 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
Birmingham -35 71 £50,000 -16.67% 25
Warwickshire -38 26 £44,000 -18.89% 8
Staffordshire -22 24 £52,500 -4.55% 5
Coventry -19 10 £58,500 -10.00% 3
Shropshire -24 10 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Solihull 0 8 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Worcestershire -21 8 £50,000 +81.82% 3
Wolverhampton -10 4 £60,000 - 1
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 (1.65%) Simulink
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.02%) Azure
2 41 (22.53%) AWS
3 20 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.34%) GitHub
5 13 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.59%) SaaS
7 11 (6.04%) PaaS
8 10 (5.49%) IaaS
9 6 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.75%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (2.75%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.75%) Serverless
11 4 (2.20%) GCP
11 4 (2.20%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.65%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) FlexRay
2 5 (2.75%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.20%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.20%) Wireless
4 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.65%) MQTT
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 20 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.04%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.49%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.85%) InterSystems Cache
5 7 (3.85%) MySQL
6 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.75%) Power BI
8 4 (2.20%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) Git
2 11 (6.04%) Postman
2 11 (6.04%) Selenium
3 10 (5.49%) MSTest
3 10 (5.49%) SonarQube
4 9 (4.95%) LabVIEW
5 7 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.85%) JIRA
5 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.75%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.65%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (1.65%) JMeter
8 3 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.10%) NUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) Maven
10 1 (0.55%) Moq
10 1 (0.55%) TestNG
General
1 52 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.84%) Finance
3 25 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.44%) Automotive
5 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.04%) Banking
8 9 (4.95%) Electronics
9 7 (3.85%) Retail
10 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.20%) Law
11 4 (2.20%) Police
12 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.65%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.10%) Games
14 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (23.63%) Developer
2 27 (14.84%) Senior
3 25 (13.74%) Software Engineer
4 22 (12.09%) Test Engineer
5 14 (7.69%) Lead
6 12 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) IT Manager
7 11 (6.04%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) Tester
9 8 (4.40%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.85%) Audit Manager
10 7 (3.85%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (3.85%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) QA Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Head of Development
11 6 (3.30%) Head of Software Development
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.03%) .NET
2 17 (9.34%) React
3 16 (8.79%) HTML
4 14 (7.69%) XML
5 13 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.59%) ASP.NET
7 10 (5.49%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.49%) ARM Templates
7 10 (5.49%) Azure Blueprints
7 10 (5.49%) JSON
7 10 (5.49%) REST
7 10 (5.49%) Web Services
8 8 (4.40%) Blazor
8 8 (4.40%) CSS
8 8 (4.40%) RESTful
9 6 (3.30%) Spring
9 6 (3.30%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.75%) Node.js
10 5 (2.75%) SOAP
10 5 (2.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (13.19%) Mobile App
3 21 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (10.99%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.59%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (6.04%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.30%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.10%) Cybercrime
8 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
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 8 (4.40%) Windows
2 7 (3.85%) Linux
3 4 (2.20%) Unix
4 3 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (51.10%) Agile
2 66 (36.26%) DevOps
3 59 (32.42%) Software Testing
4 55 (30.22%) Mentoring
5 43 (23.63%) Functional Testing
6 38 (20.88%) Software Engineering
7 32 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.03%) CI/CD
8 31 (17.03%) SDLC
8 31 (17.03%) Test Strategy
9 30 (16.48%) Test Scripting
10 28 (15.38%) Security Testing
11 27 (14.84%) Non-Functional Testing
11 27 (14.84%) Scrum
12 22 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (11.54%) Performance Testing
14 20 (10.99%) Computer Science
14 20 (10.99%) Test Planning
15 19 (10.44%) Containerisation
15 19 (10.44%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.92%) C#
2 44 (24.18%) SQL
3 29 (15.93%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.29%) Python
5 22 (12.09%) Java
6 17 (9.34%) C
7 11 (6.04%) C++
8 8 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.75%) Embedded C
9 5 (2.75%) Embedded C++
9 5 (2.75%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.20%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.20%) VB
11 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.10%) Dart
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
12 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.10%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) R
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (19.23%) Degree
2 24 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.10%) OSCP
8 1 (0.55%) HNC
8 1 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (27.47%) QA
2 11 (6.04%) NCSC
3 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.65%) JTAG
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (11.54%) Docker
2 5 (2.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (2.75%) Firmware
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.59%) Terraform
3 10 (5.49%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.85%) InterSystems
2 7 (3.85%) Xamarin
3 6 (3.30%) Databricks
3 6 (3.30%) Google
3 6 (3.30%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (3.30%) YouTube
4 5 (2.75%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.75%) SAP
5 4 (2.20%) SYSPRO
6 3 (1.65%) IBM
6 3 (1.65%) Lauterbach
6 3 (1.65%) Oracle
6 3 (1.65%) 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