Test Scripting Contracts in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -19
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 9 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.97% 0.38% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 0.40% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile - - £339
25th Percentile £413 £619 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +34.21% +58.33%
75th Percentile £444 £656 £509
90th Percentile £450 - £547
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% +44.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 407 494 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.25% 93.03% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 322 359
10th Percentile £315 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £551
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 38 23
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.76
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.44
90th Percentile - - £23.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield +8 8 £425 -33.33%
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JMeter
2 7 (77.78%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Tester
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer in Test
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Master Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tester
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Retail Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Acceptance Criteria
1 7 (77.78%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) SDET
2 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Order to Cash
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Accessibility
1 7 (77.78%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) SAP