Test Scripting Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 120 123
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 14 35 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 1.22% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.34% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 37
10th Percentile £207 £363 £362
25th Percentile £325 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £580 £575
90th Percentile £509 - £630
South East median daily rate £463 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +10.12% -11.58% +13.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 2,615 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,775 2,203
10th Percentile £213 £313 £238
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 90
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +203.89% -18.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -15.50%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Buckinghamshire +24 8 £360 -4.00% 9
Berkshire -19 5 £509 -7.03% 5
Oxfordshire +2 1 £350 -12.50% 1
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (14.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) OneDrive
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) QA Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) LIMS
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) E-business
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce