Test Scripting Contracts in Merseyside

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.33% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.66% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £416 - £392
25th Percentile £422 £506 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £513 £413
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +24.24% +129.17%
75th Percentile £447 £519 £431
90th Percentile £449 - £435
North West median daily rate £475 £428 £369
% change year-on-year +10.92% +16.21% -1.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 304 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.67% 88.37% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 234 235
10th Percentile £145 £313 £185
25th Percentile £252 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +8.89% +21.62%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £539
90th Percentile £638 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 22
10th Percentile £13.70 £16.23 £9.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +24.14% -7.94%
75th Percentile £34.27 £23.75 £17.94
90th Percentile £37.18 £25.63 £32.14
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Merseyside

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Merseyside

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Merseyside

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 19 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
Liverpool - 3 £438 - 2
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft