Test Scripting Contracts in Central London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 160 176
Rank change year-on-year +66 +16 -31
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 40 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.65% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.55% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 22
10th Percentile £423 £339 £333
25th Percentile £463 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +14.61% -6.32%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £488
90th Percentile £630 £800 £577
London median daily rate £499 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.21% +7.50% +3.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +66 37 £550 +7.84% 4
Southwark - 2 £500 -
Test Scripting
London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (7.50%) NEC Housing
3 2 (5.00%) Endur
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (2.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
1 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.50%) Miro
2 1 (2.50%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) DataStage
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Selenium
2 4 (10.00%) Appium
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) JUnit
2 4 (10.00%) REST Assured
2 4 (10.00%) TestNG
3 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.50%) Git
4 2 (5.00%) eggPlant
4 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) Postman
4 2 (5.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.00%) SOAtest
4 2 (5.00%) TestComplete
4 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) ERwin
5 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 19 (47.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Consultant
2 10 (25.00%) Great Plains Consultant
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 9 (22.50%) Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Tester
6 3 (7.50%) Risk Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Tester
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.00%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Tester
7 2 (5.00%) Software Tester
7 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) SAP SD Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
1 4 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (7.50%) Playwright
3 2 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) ADO
4 1 (2.50%) EDI
4 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.50%) HTML
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.50%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.50%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 15 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (22.50%) Agile
4 9 (22.50%) Software Testing
4 9 (22.50%) Use Case
5 6 (15.00%) SDET
6 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.00%) CRM
7 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (10.00%) ETL
7 4 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (7.50%) ERP
8 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.50%) Regression Testing
8 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (15.00%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.50%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.00%) ISEB
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) QA
2 9 (22.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (10.00%) ISO 20022
4 3 (7.50%) SLA
5 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) NEC
4 2 (5.00%) OpenLink
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) CyberSource
5 1 (2.50%) Embarcadero
5 1 (2.50%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow