Test Scripting Contracts in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 259 263
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 358 489 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 1.01% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.12% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 322 526
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £630 £730 £647
UK median daily rate £463 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -5.61% +8.89% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 25 11
10th Percentile - £46.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £52.13 £26.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £77.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +76.44% -6.65%
75th Percentile £90.00 £90.00 £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £77.00 £49.32
% change year-on-year -12.34% +56.12% +3.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +58 163 £500 -13.04% 43
South East -1 58 £463 +9.47% 20
North of England +4 49 £450 -10.00% 17
Midlands +5 32 £448 +6.16% 20
South West +20 30 £513 +17.14% 12
North West -3 24 £450 - 11
Yorkshire +13 22 £470 -6.00% 5
West Midlands +13 18 £448 +4.67% 13
East of England -4 14 £313 -33.51% 14
East Midlands +16 13 £414 +53.24% 7
North East +12 3 £423 +9.03% 1
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (7.26%) Confluence
2 17 (4.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.12%) IIS
4 3 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) LiveLink
Applications
1 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.07%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (1.68%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.68%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.68%) SAP Travel Management
4 5 (1.40%) Oracle AGIS
5 4 (1.12%) NEC Housing
5 4 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.12%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.56%) Endur
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.56%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 40 (11.17%) Azure
2 17 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (4.47%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.19%) AWS
5 6 (1.68%) Serverless
6 5 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.40%) SaaS
7 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.12%) BrowserStack
7 4 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.12%) GitHub
7 4 (1.12%) Miro
7 4 (1.12%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.84%) GCP
8 3 (0.84%) IaaS
8 3 (0.84%) OCI
8 3 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.75%) DHCP
1 17 (4.75%) DNS
2 6 (1.68%) Firewall
3 5 (1.40%) Network Security
4 4 (1.12%) 5G
5 3 (0.84%) 4G
5 3 (0.84%) LAN
5 3 (0.84%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) VoIP
6 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.28%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.28%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.47%) Power BI
2 13 (3.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.68%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (1.40%) MS Access
6 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.40%) Tableau
7 4 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.84%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.56%) Big Data
9 2 (0.56%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.56%) DataStage
9 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (14.53%) JIRA
2 43 (12.01%) Selenium
3 23 (6.42%) JUnit
4 21 (5.87%) Cucumber
4 21 (5.87%) Git
5 19 (5.31%) Postman
6 17 (4.75%) Appium
6 17 (4.75%) REST Assured
7 16 (4.47%) JMeter
8 15 (4.19%) TestNG
9 13 (3.63%) SoapUI
10 12 (3.35%) WebDriver
11 10 (2.79%) eggPlant
11 10 (2.79%) SOAtest
12 9 (2.51%) Jenkins
12 9 (2.51%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (2.51%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (2.23%) LoadRunner
14 7 (1.96%) Visual Studio
15 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 124 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.79%) Finance
3 68 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.70%) Telecoms
6 23 (6.42%) Manufacturing
7 20 (5.59%) Military
8 19 (5.31%) Marketing
9 16 (4.47%) Electronics
10 13 (3.63%) Retail
11 12 (3.35%) Banking
12 11 (3.07%) Billing
13 9 (2.51%) Back Office
14 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.68%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.68%) Legal
15 5 (1.40%) Automotive
15 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 98 (27.37%) Analyst
2 64 (17.88%) Test Engineer
3 55 (15.36%) Test Analyst
4 38 (10.61%) Consultant
5 31 (8.66%) Tester
6 27 (7.54%) Senior
7 23 (6.42%) Business Analyst
8 21 (5.87%) Test Manager
9 19 (5.31%) Integration Engineer
10 18 (5.03%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 17 (4.75%) Data Analyst
11 17 (4.75%) Developer
12 15 (4.19%) Lead
12 15 (4.19%) QA Engineer
13 13 (3.63%) SAP Consultant
14 11 (3.07%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.07%) Oracle Analyst
14 11 (3.07%) Project Manager
14 11 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (3.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.26%) .NET
2 16 (4.47%) Gherkin
3 15 (4.19%) REST
4 11 (3.07%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.23%) JSON
6 7 (1.96%) Node.js
6 7 (1.96%) XML
7 6 (1.68%) SAP TM
8 5 (1.40%) EDI
8 5 (1.40%) HTML
8 5 (1.40%) Jest
8 5 (1.40%) Middleware
8 5 (1.40%) Playwright
8 5 (1.40%) React
9 4 (1.12%) ADO
9 4 (1.12%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.12%) CSS
9 4 (1.12%) Kafka
9 4 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.59%) PKI
2 17 (4.75%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.07%) Mobile App
3 11 (3.07%) NHS
4 10 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.23%) LIMS
6 7 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.68%) Replication
8 5 (1.40%) Life Science
8 5 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.12%) e-Health
9 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.84%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.84%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.84%) PDA
11 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.38%) Windows
2 20 (5.59%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (3.35%) Linux
5 8 (2.23%) Unix
6 6 (1.68%) Android
7 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (30.45%) Agile
1 109 (30.45%) Test Automation
2 75 (20.95%) User Acceptance Testing
3 59 (16.48%) Software Testing
4 51 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (13.41%) Scenario Testing
5 48 (13.41%) Test Strategy
6 45 (12.57%) Regression Testing
7 40 (11.17%) User Stories
8 36 (10.06%) Validation
9 35 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (9.50%) CI/CD
11 33 (9.22%) Acceptance Criteria
12 30 (8.38%) DevOps
12 30 (8.38%) Scrum
13 29 (8.10%) Migration
14 25 (6.98%) Integration Testing
15 24 (6.70%) End-to-End Testing
15 24 (6.70%) Test Planning
16 22 (6.15%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (20.95%) SQL
2 52 (14.53%) Java
3 30 (8.38%) Python
4 26 (7.26%) C#
5 15 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.91%) C
7 13 (3.63%) C++
8 10 (2.79%) Embedded C
9 9 (2.51%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.23%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.84%) SOQL
11 3 (0.84%) Swift
11 3 (0.84%) VBA
12 2 (0.56%) Bash
12 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.56%) R
12 2 (0.56%) VB
12 2 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 80 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 55 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.61%) Degree
4 25 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.87%) ISTQB
6 18 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (4.75%) MCSA
7 17 (4.75%) MCSE
7 17 (4.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.68%) ISEB
9 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.12%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.84%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.32%) QA
2 11 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.23%) HL7
4 8 (2.23%) SLA
5 6 (1.68%) WCAG
6 5 (1.40%) GAAP
6 5 (1.40%) GAMP
6 5 (1.40%) GxP
6 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.40%) PMO
7 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.56%) Basel III
8 2 (0.56%) COREP
8 2 (0.56%) FINREP
9 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.51%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.84%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.56%) Nagios
3 2 (0.56%) SCOM
4 1 (0.28%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.28%) Control-M
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) SCCM
4 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 54 (15.08%) SAP
3 44 (12.29%) Oracle
4 20 (5.59%) VMware
5 10 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.40%) Databricks
7 5 (1.40%) NEC
8 4 (1.12%) Adobe
8 4 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.12%) Denodo
8 4 (1.12%) HP
9 3 (0.84%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.84%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.84%) Okta
9 3 (0.84%) Splunk
10 2 (0.56%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.56%) CyberSource
10 2 (0.56%) Embarcadero
10 2 (0.56%) Xilinx