Test Scripting Contracts in the City of London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 161 158
Rank change year-on-year +72 -3 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 37 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.67% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.51% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 23
10th Percentile £427 £326 £335
25th Percentile £500 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +15.70% -9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £488
90th Percentile £690 £770 £547
Central London median daily rate £550 £498 £430
% change year-on-year +10.55% +15.70% -9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 2 £500 -
Test Scripting
Central London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (8.11%) NEC Housing
3 2 (5.41%) Endur
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (2.70%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.70%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) DataStage
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Selenium
2 5 (13.51%) JUnit
2 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
2 5 (13.51%) TestNG
3 4 (10.81%) Appium
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.11%) Git
4 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.41%) eggPlant
5 2 (5.41%) Postman
5 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.41%) SOAtest
5 2 (5.41%) TestComplete
5 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.41%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.70%) ERwin
6 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Back Office
5 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Consultant
2 10 (27.03%) Great Plains Consultant
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Consultant
3 8 (21.62%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Risk Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Tester
5 3 (8.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Software Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) QA Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.41%) CSS
3 2 (5.41%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) EDI
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.70%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.70%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
3 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) Software Testing
4 9 (24.32%) Use Case
5 7 (18.92%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) CRM
6 5 (13.51%) Integration Testing
6 5 (13.51%) SDET
6 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
7 4 (10.81%) ETL
7 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 3 (8.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (8.11%) Functional Testing
8 3 (8.11%) Logistics
8 3 (8.11%) Regression Testing
8 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
9 2 (5.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) C#
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.70%) C++
6 1 (2.70%) SOQL
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Degree
2 6 (16.22%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.41%) ISEB
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) QA
2 9 (24.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (8.11%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) NEC
4 2 (5.41%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix
5 1 (2.70%) Embarcadero
5 1 (2.70%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow