Test Scripting Contracts in Wales

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 56 63
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.24% 0.92% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.07% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £361 £343
25th Percentile - £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £625 £426
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% +46.71% +13.60%
75th Percentile - - £507
90th Percentile - - £568
UK median daily rate £469 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +2.18% +1.94% +9.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 327 559 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.56% 86.00% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 427 625
10th Percentile £160 £180 £201
25th Percentile £313 £330 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £564 £575
90th Percentile £665 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 35
10th Percentile £11.69 £14.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -27.44% +40.85%
75th Percentile £50.81 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.18 £48.75 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Wales

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Wales

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Wales

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales +11 1 £210 -66.40% 3
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft