Test Automation Job Trends in Chatham

Automated Testing
Kent > Chatham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chatham requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chatham 1.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Kent median annual salary £49,000 £31,750 £43,750
% change year-on-year +54.33% -27.43% -23.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chatham

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 Chatham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 9 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chatham 91.67% 100.00% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 3 58
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,700 £32,890
25th Percentile £49,688 £53,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +100.00% -17.07%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £95,500 £72,500
Kent median annual salary £43,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.10% +16.67% -10.00%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Chatham

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Chatham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Chatham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chatham citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chatham citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chatham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce