Test Scripting Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 389 314
Rank change year-on-year -100 -75 +46
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 285 449 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.78% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 186 227 446
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £63,125
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
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 -16 104 £40,000 -20.00% 17
North of England +1 57 £45,000 -4.26% 13
Midlands -19 47 £47,500 -13.64% 22
West Midlands +9 44 £48,750 -11.36% 13
North West -16 31 £47,500 +5.56% 7
South West -50 31 £55,000 -0.90% 12
East of England -33 21 £40,000 -25.58% 6
Yorkshire +64 20 £42,500 -9.57% 6
Scotland -72 17 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Wales +10 8 £43,250 +44.17% 2
North East -1 6 £35,000 -37.50%
East Midlands -22 3 £34,500 -1.43% 9
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 4 (1.40%) TWiki
2 1 (0.35%) Apache
2 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.35%) CMS
2 1 (0.35%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.70%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (0.70%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.70%) SAP MII
3 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.58%) Azure
2 18 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (5.61%) SaaS
4 13 (4.56%) AWS
5 9 (3.16%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (2.11%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.40%) GitHub
8 4 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.70%) Boomi
9 2 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.35%) Apigee
10 1 (0.35%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.35%) OCI
10 1 (0.35%) PaaS
10 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.07%) 5G
1 23 (8.07%) LTE
2 22 (7.72%) Bluetooth
2 22 (7.72%) GSM
2 22 (7.72%) ISDN
2 22 (7.72%) PSTN
2 22 (7.72%) UMTS
2 22 (7.72%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (7.72%) Wireless
3 6 (2.11%) Internet
4 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) Firewall
5 2 (0.70%) HTTP
6 1 (0.35%) 4G
6 1 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.35%) MQTT
6 1 (0.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.16%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.40%) Power BI
5 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (26.32%) Selenium
2 41 (14.39%) JIRA
3 33 (11.58%) Cucumber
4 25 (8.77%) JMeter
5 22 (7.72%) Cypress.io
5 22 (7.72%) LabVIEW
5 22 (7.72%) Postman
6 21 (7.37%) Jenkins
7 14 (4.91%) TeamCity
8 12 (4.21%) Git
9 10 (3.51%) MSTest
10 9 (3.16%) Gradle
10 9 (3.16%) LoadRunner
10 9 (3.16%) Maven
10 9 (3.16%) SpecFlow
11 7 (2.46%) SoapUI
11 7 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (2.46%) Zephyr
12 6 (2.11%) HP UFT
12 6 (2.11%) JBehave
General
1 79 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (16.49%) Finance
4 46 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.47%) Aerospace
6 26 (9.12%) Law
7 24 (8.42%) Telecoms
8 17 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (5.61%) Retail
10 13 (4.56%) Marketing
11 11 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (3.16%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.11%) Games
13 6 (2.11%) Legal
13 6 (2.11%) Police
14 5 (1.75%) Banking
14 5 (1.75%) Electronics
15 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (21.75%) Analyst
2 56 (19.65%) Test Engineer
3 50 (17.54%) Test Analyst
4 46 (16.14%) Tester
5 29 (10.18%) Senior
6 28 (9.82%) QA Engineer
7 26 (9.12%) Automation Tester
8 15 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
8 15 (5.26%) Software Tester
9 14 (4.91%) QA Analyst
10 13 (4.56%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.86%) Lead
11 11 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) QA Test Analyst
13 9 (3.16%) Developer
13 9 (3.16%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.16%) QA Software Engineer
13 9 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
14 8 (2.81%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.07%) Gherkin
2 12 (4.21%) XML
3 10 (3.51%) REST
3 10 (3.51%) Spring
4 9 (3.16%) .NET
4 9 (3.16%) Ext JS
4 9 (3.16%) React
4 9 (3.16%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (2.46%) Web Services
6 6 (2.11%) HTML
6 6 (2.11%) JSON
6 6 (2.11%) Middleware
7 5 (1.75%) SOAP
8 4 (1.40%) RESTful
8 4 (1.40%) XSLT
9 3 (1.05%) Playwright
9 3 (1.05%) POSIX
9 3 (1.05%) Swagger
10 2 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 22 (7.72%) Acoustics
2 22 (7.72%) Satnav
3 21 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.96%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.16%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.75%) SCADA
8 4 (1.40%) NHS
8 4 (1.40%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.05%) IoT
10 2 (0.70%) FMCG
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.35%) FPGA
11 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.35%) PKI
11 1 (0.35%) PMI
11 1 (0.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.61%) Windows
2 9 (3.16%) Linux
3 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.05%) Android
5 3 (1.05%) FreeBSD
5 3 (1.05%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (71.23%) Test Automation
2 154 (54.04%) Agile
3 99 (34.74%) Software Testing
4 76 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (22.46%) Coaching
6 60 (21.05%) Test Strategy
7 59 (20.70%) Mentoring
8 54 (18.95%) CI/CD
8 54 (18.95%) Regression Testing
9 48 (16.84%) Test Management
10 47 (16.49%) Manual Testing
11 44 (15.44%) Collaborative Working
12 41 (14.39%) SDLC
12 41 (14.39%) User Acceptance Testing
13 40 (14.04%) Performance Testing
13 40 (14.04%) Test Planning
14 36 (12.63%) Data Management
14 36 (12.63%) Functional Testing
15 34 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (11.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.44%) Python
2 35 (12.28%) SQL
3 30 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 26 (9.12%) Java
5 23 (8.07%) C#
6 13 (4.56%) C
7 8 (2.81%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.40%) C++
9 4 (1.40%) Groovy
10 3 (1.05%) Perl
10 3 (1.05%) VB
11 2 (0.70%) Bash
11 2 (0.70%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.35%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 77 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.86%) Degree
3 47 (16.49%) SC Cleared
4 41 (14.39%) ISTQB
5 27 (9.47%) DV Cleared
6 19 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.26%) ISEB
8 5 (1.75%) HND
8 5 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.40%) CIPD
9 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (42.11%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.11%) Firmware
2 4 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.40%) VMware Server
3 2 (0.70%) Docker
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.11%) Grafana
1 6 (2.11%) Kibana
2 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
2 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 14 (4.91%) Oracle
4 11 (3.86%) SAP
5 9 (3.16%) TOWER Software
6 5 (1.75%) Google
7 4 (1.40%) VMware
8 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.05%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.70%) Intapp
10 1 (0.35%) Ariba
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco
10 1 (0.35%) Denodo
10 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.35%) Juniper
10 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.35%) Talend