Test Scripting Jobs in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 381 409
Rank change year-on-year -120 +28 +26
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 360 757 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.82% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.86% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 259 483 719
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,400 £80,000 £70,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,078 88,196 126,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,838 52,122 73,896
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,910 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -2 105 £42,500 -15.00% 20
London -64 94 £70,000 +17.60% 38
North of England -20 58 £45,000 -4.76% 13
Midlands +8 48 £46,250 -15.91% 17
West Midlands +14 45 £47,500 -13.64% 11
North West -20 31 £47,500 +5.56% 10
South West -50 31 £55,000 -0.45% 16
Yorkshire +60 20 £42,500 -9.57% 3
East of England -34 20 £40,000 -27.27% 6
North East +1 7 £35,000 -37.50%
East Midlands -19 3 £34,500 -1.43% 6
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (3.89%) Confluence
2 4 (1.11%) TWiki
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.28%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (3.06%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.56%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.28%) SAP FSCM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.78%) Azure
2 36 (10.00%) AWS
3 26 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (6.11%) Serverless
5 19 (5.28%) SaaS
6 17 (4.72%) GitHub
7 12 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 12 (3.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 12 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 12 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (3.06%) Boomi
9 10 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.67%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.67%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.39%) 5G
1 23 (6.39%) LTE
2 22 (6.11%) Bluetooth
2 22 (6.11%) GSM
2 22 (6.11%) ISDN
2 22 (6.11%) PSTN
2 22 (6.11%) UMTS
2 22 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (6.11%) Wireless
3 6 (1.67%) Internet
4 3 (0.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.28%) MQTT
6 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.11%) Power BI
7 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.28%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Redis
8 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (25.00%) Selenium
2 54 (15.00%) JIRA
3 30 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 24 (6.67%) Postman
5 22 (6.11%) JMeter
5 22 (6.11%) LabVIEW
6 15 (4.17%) LoadRunner
7 14 (3.89%) Jenkins
7 14 (3.89%) TeamCity
8 13 (3.61%) SpecFlow
9 12 (3.33%) Git
10 10 (2.78%) MSTest
11 8 (2.22%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.94%) SoapUI
12 7 (1.94%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.67%) HP UFT
13 6 (1.67%) JBehave
14 5 (1.39%) JUnit
14 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.28%) Finance
3 49 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.22%) Aerospace
6 24 (6.67%) Law
6 24 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 20 (5.56%) Banking
8 18 (5.00%) Retail
9 17 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 15 (4.17%) Marketing
12 13 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.67%) Automotive
14 6 (1.67%) Games
14 6 (1.67%) Police
15 5 (1.39%) Electronics
15 5 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (22.22%) Analyst
2 59 (16.39%) Tester
3 52 (14.44%) Test Analyst
4 51 (14.17%) Senior
4 51 (14.17%) Test Engineer
5 26 (7.22%) Automation Tester
6 23 (6.39%) QA Engineer
7 20 (5.56%) QA Analyst
8 17 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (4.17%) Consultant
9 15 (4.17%) Hardware Engineer
9 15 (4.17%) Lead
9 15 (4.17%) Software Tester
10 14 (3.89%) SAP Consultant
11 13 (3.61%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.33%) Developer
12 12 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (3.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 12 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 18 (5.00%) Middleware
3 17 (4.72%) .NET
4 15 (4.17%) XML
5 14 (3.89%) Node.js
6 13 (3.61%) REST
6 13 (3.61%) Spring
7 11 (3.06%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.78%) HTML
9 8 (2.22%) Web Services
10 7 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.67%) JSON
11 6 (1.67%) SOAP
12 4 (1.11%) Playwright
12 4 (1.11%) Svelte
12 4 (1.11%) XSLT
13 3 (0.83%) POSIX
13 3 (0.83%) React
13 3 (0.83%) RESTful
13 3 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.11%) Acoustics
3 22 (6.11%) Satnav
4 17 (4.72%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.39%) SCADA
9 4 (1.11%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.11%) NHS
9 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.83%) IoT
11 2 (0.56%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.56%) FMCG
11 2 (0.56%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.56%) PMI
12 1 (0.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.06%) Windows
2 22 (6.11%) Linux
3 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.83%) Android
5 3 (0.83%) FreeBSD
5 3 (0.83%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (61.39%) Test Automation
2 180 (50.00%) Agile
3 99 (27.50%) Software Testing
4 72 (20.00%) DevOps
4 72 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (18.61%) CI/CD
5 67 (18.61%) Coaching
6 66 (18.33%) Test Strategy
7 65 (18.06%) Mentoring
8 61 (16.94%) Regression Testing
9 57 (15.83%) Collaborative Working
10 55 (15.28%) Performance Testing
11 50 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
12 49 (13.61%) Test Management
13 44 (12.22%) Scrum
14 40 (11.11%) Manual Testing
15 39 (10.83%) Functional Testing
16 36 (10.00%) Data Management
16 36 (10.00%) Defect Management
17 34 (9.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.89%) Python
2 47 (13.06%) SQL
3 36 (10.00%) Java
4 32 (8.89%) C#
5 22 (6.11%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.17%) Bash
7 13 (3.61%) C
8 11 (3.06%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.39%) C++
11 4 (1.11%) Groovy
11 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.83%) Perl
12 3 (0.83%) VB
13 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.28%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 79 (21.94%) Degree
3 49 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.06%) ISTQB
5 33 (9.17%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.44%) ISEB
8 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.11%) CIPD
9 4 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.83%) HND
10 3 (0.83%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (39.17%) QA
2 11 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.83%) PMO
3 3 (0.83%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) IFRS
4 1 (0.28%) NCSC
4 1 (0.28%) SLA
4 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (1.67%) Firmware
2 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.11%) VMware Server
3 2 (0.56%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (5.00%) Grafana
2 14 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.61%) Terraform
4 7 (1.94%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.28%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.28%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 48 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.94%) Oracle
3 21 (5.83%) SAP
4 17 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.50%) Dell
6 5 (1.39%) Google
7 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.11%) VMware
8 3 (0.83%) Progress
8 3 (0.83%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.56%) Intapp
9 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.56%) Workday
9 2 (0.56%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.28%) Concur
10 1 (0.28%) Databricks
10 1 (0.28%) Denodo
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.28%) Talend