Test Scripting Contracts in the North of England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 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 141 137 161
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -41
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 49 83 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.02% 1.42% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.57% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 60
10th Percentile £365 £385 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +21.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £488
90th Percentile £575 £680 £538
England median daily rate £452 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -4.84% +6.74% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £42.69 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.74 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £46.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.77 -
90th Percentile £52.50 £51.58 -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £63.75 £44.97
% change year-on-year +33.33% +41.78% +33.31%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +5 28 £463 +3.93% 6
Yorkshire +7 16 £425 -15.00% 3
North East +21 5 £475 +22.58%
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (2.04%) LiveLink
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Cerner Millennium
1 2 (4.08%) SAP Retail
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.12%) AWS
2 3 (6.12%) Azure
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (6.12%) IaaS
2 3 (6.12%) PaaS
2 3 (6.12%) SaaS
3 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.04%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.04%) Commercetools
3 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
1 3 (6.12%) LAN
1 3 (6.12%) Network Security
1 3 (6.12%) VPN
1 3 (6.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.04%) DataStage
2 1 (2.04%) EDRMS
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Selenium
2 8 (16.33%) JMeter
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) Postman
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.04%) ERwin
5 1 (2.04%) Git
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) GoCD
5 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.04%) TestCafe
5 1 (2.04%) TestDirector
5 1 (2.04%) TestNG
5 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Retail
3 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.16%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.04%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Analyst
2 10 (20.41%) Test Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Tester
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Test Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) IT Support
7 3 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Network Security Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
1 1 (2.04%) Kafka
1 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.04%) pytest
1 1 (2.04%) RESTful
1 1 (2.04%) Swagger
1 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Life Science
2 3 (6.12%) NHS
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) ASIC
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Android
1 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.45%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (22.45%) User Stories
3 9 (18.37%) Acceptance Criteria
3 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (18.37%) Software Testing
3 9 (18.37%) Validation
4 8 (16.33%) Agile
5 7 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (12.24%) Analytics
6 6 (12.24%) Manual Testing
6 6 (12.24%) Project Management
7 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (10.20%) Data Analytics
7 5 (10.20%) Data Extraction
7 5 (10.20%) Migration
7 5 (10.20%) Process Improvement
7 5 (10.20%) Smart Manufacturing
7 5 (10.20%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Java
2 6 (12.24%) SQL
3 3 (6.12%) C#
4 2 (4.08%) Python
5 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.04%) PMP
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Accessibility
2 7 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (14.29%) WCAG
3 5 (10.20%) GAMP
3 5 (10.20%) GxP
4 1 (2.04%) EMIR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Grafana
1 1 (2.04%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.04%) Kibana
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) Cerner
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.04%) Brio
4 1 (2.04%) Embarcadero
4 1 (2.04%) HP
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow