Test Automation Jobs in Kent

Automated Testing
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 73 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 18 28 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.22% 2.41% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 2.51% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 8
10th Percentile £58,000 £46,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.14% +87.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - £71,500 £84,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,219 1,114 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.64% 95.87% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 894 548 700
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,750 £26,475
25th Percentile £30,500 £33,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £64,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Kent

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Kent.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Kent

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Kent over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Kent

Test Automation
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Kent region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Sittingbourne - 3 £43,750 -
Whitstable - 2 - -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (55.56%) IaaS
2 10 (55.56%) PaaS
2 10 (55.56%) Serverless
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Functions
4 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Relational Database
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) DynamoDB
2 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.56%) eggPlant
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Azure Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Backend Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Tester
4 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Product Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Software Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
6 1 (5.56%) QA Manager
6 1 (5.56%) QA Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) .NET
2 10 (55.56%) RESTful
3 9 (50.00%) Web Services
4 7 (38.89%) gRPC
5 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
6 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (16.67%) CSS
6 3 (16.67%) CSS3
6 3 (16.67%) Entity Framework
6 3 (16.67%) HTML
6 3 (16.67%) HTML5
6 3 (16.67%) React
6 3 (16.67%) Vue
7 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
2 7 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) Architectural Patterns
3 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Computer Science
3 10 (55.56%) Microservices
3 10 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
3 10 (55.56%) Software Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) API Development
4 7 (38.89%) Clean Code
4 7 (38.89%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (38.89%) Data Privacy
4 7 (38.89%) Data Protection
4 7 (38.89%) Design Patterns
5 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (22.22%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (55.56%) Degree
1 10 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ISEB
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) GDPR
1 10 (55.56%) HIPAA
2 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft