Test Scripting Jobs in the North West

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 236 185
Rank change year-on-year -27 -51 -17
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 30 61 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 0.76% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.79% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 29 37 73
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +14.86%
75th Percentile £63,250 £58,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £77,715 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,016 7,700 9,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.24% 95.79% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,106 3,973 5,393
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.64%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the North West.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +7 11 £37,500 -16.67% 6
Merseyside +9 10 £46,250 +15.63% 2
Cheshire -5 9 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JMeter
2 4 (13.33%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Subversion
3 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.33%) Postman
4 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Retail
3 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Law
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (3.33%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) POSIX
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Operational Technology
1 4 (13.33%) SCADA
2 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) FreeBSD
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 9 (30.00%) Performance Testing
5 9 (30.00%) Test Management
5 9 (30.00%) User Stories
6 8 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (26.67%) Manual Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (20.00%) Software Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Change Control
9 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 5 (16.67%) Fintech
10 4 (13.33%) Use Case
10 4 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) C#
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) HND
2 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Grafana
1 5 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Intapp
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow