Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Kidderminster

Automated Testing
Worcestershire > Kidderminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kidderminster requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kidderminster 5.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £700 £700 £540
% change year-on-year - +29.63% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kidderminster

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kidderminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kidderminster 16.67% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £199 - -
25th Percentile £216 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - -
75th Percentile £359 - -
90th Percentile £406 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £534
% change year-on-year - +3.04% -2.95%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Kidderminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kidderminster.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Kidderminster

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kidderminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft