Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Maidstone

Automated Testing
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Maidstone requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Maidstone 3.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median daily rate £625 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 26 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone 73.33% 96.30% 65.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 16
10th Percentile £196 £181 £153
25th Percentile £329 £189 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £223 £365
Median % change year-on-year +49.44% -39.04% +33.94%
75th Percentile £438 £387 £533
90th Percentile £549 £563 £585
Kent median daily rate £375 £470 £488
% change year-on-year -20.21% -3.59% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £20.40 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +334.44%
Kent median hourly rate £20.40 £19.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.62% -65.33% +51.49%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Maidstone

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript