Test Scripting Contracts in Cheltenham

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 33 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 2.66% 3.11% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 3.50% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £484 £319 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £338 £475
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.95% +46.15%
75th Percentile £549 £473 £488
90th Percentile £565 £543 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £540 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +35.00% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 143 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.23% 88.82% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 105 95
10th Percentile £390 £364 £263
25th Percentile £513 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £601
90th Percentile £745 £758 £758
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.65 £67.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.38 £67.25 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.00 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +535.29% -74.50%
75th Percentile £72.06 £92.25 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.13 £93.60 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £40.00 £71.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -44.06% +120.68% -35.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (40.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Records Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) OpenText
2 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Wind River