Test Scripting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 199 193
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -19
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 204 294 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.23% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.37% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 191 294
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £390 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +4.71% +11.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £495
90th Percentile £575 £638 £568
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 10
10th Percentile £41.25 £46.25 £17.15
25th Percentile £43.44 £50.00 £21.69
Median hourly rate £90.00 £77.00 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +85.12% +51.36%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £55.00
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £62.50 £46.29
% change year-on-year +44.00% +35.02% +8.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +1 57 £475 +9.83% 21
North of England +1 48 £450 -7.22% 13
Midlands +12 34 £420 - 20
South West +33 29 £531 +28.79% 14
North West +7 27 £450 +1.12% 10
Scotland +36 19 £381 -10.29% 5
West Midlands +10 18 £448 +5.79% 13
Yorkshire +7 17 £425 -15.00% 3
East of England +3 16 £313 -30.56% 7
East Midlands +19 15 £363 +42.86% 7
North East +17 4 £450 +16.13%
Wales +11 1 £210 -66.40% 2
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (8.82%) Confluence
2 15 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) LiveLink
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.98%) SAP PS
2 2 (0.98%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.78%) Azure
2 17 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.94%) AWS
5 5 (2.45%) SaaS
6 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.47%) IaaS
6 3 (1.47%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.47%) PaaS
6 3 (1.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.98%) OCI
7 2 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.49%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.49%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.49%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.35%) DHCP
1 15 (7.35%) DNS
2 5 (2.45%) Network Security
3 4 (1.96%) Firewall
3 4 (1.96%) LAN
3 4 (1.96%) VPN
3 4 (1.96%) WAN
4 3 (1.47%) 4G
4 3 (1.47%) 5G
5 2 (0.98%) VoIP
6 1 (0.49%) Internet
6 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.49%) WAAS
6 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.41%) Power BI
2 8 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
3 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.96%) MS Access
5 4 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.96%) Tableau
6 3 (1.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) DataStage
7 1 (0.49%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.49%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (16.67%) JIRA
2 25 (12.25%) Selenium
3 14 (6.86%) JMeter
4 11 (5.39%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (2.94%) LoadRunner
6 5 (2.45%) JUnit
6 5 (2.45%) Postman
6 5 (2.45%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.47%) Appium
7 3 (1.47%) GitLab
7 3 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.98%) ClearCase
8 2 (0.98%) ClearQuest
8 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.98%) Git
8 2 (0.98%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.98%) TestNG
8 2 (0.98%) UI Automator
General
1 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.20%) Finance
4 24 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.82%) Military
6 14 (6.86%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.86%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.88%) Retail
8 10 (4.90%) Banking
9 8 (3.92%) Electronics
9 8 (3.92%) Marketing
10 6 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.45%) Legal
12 4 (1.96%) Automotive
12 4 (1.96%) Billing
13 3 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.47%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (29.41%) Analyst
2 43 (21.08%) Test Engineer
3 35 (17.16%) Test Analyst
4 18 (8.82%) Integration Engineer
4 18 (8.82%) Tester
5 17 (8.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 14 (6.86%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.37%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Consultant
9 11 (5.39%) Test Manager
10 10 (4.90%) C Software Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Embedded C Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Embedded Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Senior
11 8 (3.92%) Lead
11 8 (3.92%) LIMS Manager
11 8 (3.92%) LIMS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.96%) Gherkin
2 3 (1.47%) .NET
3 2 (0.98%) HTML
3 2 (0.98%) JSON
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.98%) REST
3 2 (0.98%) XML
4 1 (0.49%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.49%) HTML5
4 1 (0.49%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.49%) JPA
4 1 (0.49%) Kafka
4 1 (0.49%) Node.js
4 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.49%) React
4 1 (0.49%) RESTful
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.49%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.49%) Swagger
4 1 (0.49%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) PKI
2 14 (6.86%) NHS
3 8 (3.92%) LIMS
4 7 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.45%) Life Science
5 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.96%) e-Health
6 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.47%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.98%) Equities
8 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.98%) GNSS
8 2 (0.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.27%) Windows
2 18 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (2.45%) Linux
5 4 (1.96%) Android
5 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.96%) Unix
6 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.49%) AIX
7 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.94%) Test Automation
2 55 (26.96%) Agile
3 38 (18.63%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 33 (16.18%) Software Testing
7 31 (15.20%) Validation
8 30 (14.71%) Scenario Testing
9 28 (13.73%) DevOps
10 25 (12.25%) Test Strategy
11 22 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
12 21 (10.29%) User Stories
13 19 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (8.82%) Test Planning
15 17 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (7.84%) Test Management
17 15 (7.35%) Critical Thinking
17 15 (7.35%) Manual Testing
17 15 (7.35%) Migration
17 15 (7.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.63%) SQL
2 14 (6.86%) Java
3 13 (6.37%) C
4 12 (5.88%) C++
4 12 (5.88%) Embedded C
5 10 (4.90%) Embedded C++
6 9 (4.41%) C#
6 9 (4.41%) Python
7 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.47%) Swift
9 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.49%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.49%) SOQL
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.35%) Degree
4 15 (7.35%) MCSA
4 15 (7.35%) MCSE
4 15 (7.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (4.90%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.45%) ISEB
8 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.98%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.75%) QA
2 10 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.41%) HL7
4 7 (3.43%) WCAG
5 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.45%) GAMP
5 5 (2.45%) GxP
6 4 (1.96%) SLA
7 3 (1.47%) PMO
8 2 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.49%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.49%) EMIR
9 1 (0.49%) NCSC
9 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.98%) Docker
4 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.45%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.98%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.49%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
3 1 (0.49%) Kibana
3 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.49%) SCCM
3 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (12.75%) Microsoft
1 26 (12.75%) SAP
2 23 (11.27%) Oracle
3 16 (7.84%) VMware
4 5 (2.45%) HP
5 4 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.96%) Denodo
5 4 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.98%) Adobe
6 2 (0.98%) Blue Prism
6 2 (0.98%) OpenText
6 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.98%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.49%) Brio
7 1 (0.49%) Cadence
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco
7 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.49%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) IBM