Test Scripting Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 416 397 371
Rank change year-on-year -19 -26 -11
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 179 286 627
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.72% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 127 249 424
10th Percentile £33,250 £39,271 £33,090
25th Percentile £39,674 £50,000 £40,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,391
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.36% -1.22%
75th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £68,500
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Scripting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Test Scripting salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.15%) SAP HR
2 6 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.12%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (1.12%) SAP MII
3 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.41%) Azure
2 23 (12.85%) AWS
3 18 (10.06%) GitHub
4 14 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.82%) Serverless
5 13 (7.26%) SaaS
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (6.15%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 11 (6.15%) Azure AKS
6 11 (6.15%) Boomi
6 11 (6.15%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (3.35%) BrowserStack
7 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.23%) PaaS
10 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) Internet
2 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) 4G
3 1 (0.56%) 5G
3 1 (0.56%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.56%) LTE
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) Multicast
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.23%) Redis
4 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.68%) Power BI
4 3 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.56%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (32.40%) Selenium
2 36 (20.11%) JIRA
3 21 (11.73%) Postman
4 14 (7.82%) Cucumber
5 12 (6.70%) Jenkins
6 11 (6.15%) Cypress.io
6 11 (6.15%) SpecFlow
7 9 (5.03%) JMeter
8 8 (4.47%) Git
9 6 (3.35%) JBehave
9 6 (3.35%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.79%) LoadRunner
10 5 (2.79%) TestRail
11 4 (2.23%) GitLab
11 4 (2.23%) JUnit
11 4 (2.23%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (1.68%) Appium
12 3 (1.68%) TestNG
12 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.68%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.88%) Finance
3 22 (12.29%) Aerospace
4 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.38%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
8 13 (7.26%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (7.26%) Retail
9 9 (5.03%) Law
10 8 (4.47%) Police
11 4 (2.23%) Banking
11 4 (2.23%) Marketing
11 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.68%) Legal
12 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.12%) Automotive
13 2 (1.12%) Back Office
13 2 (1.12%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 41 (22.91%) Tester
2 37 (20.67%) Analyst
3 35 (19.55%) Senior
4 24 (13.41%) Test Engineer
5 23 (12.85%) Automation Tester
6 20 (11.17%) QA Engineer
6 20 (11.17%) Test Analyst
7 15 (8.38%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (7.82%) Consultant
9 13 (7.26%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Senior Consultant
11 10 (5.59%) Senior SAP Consultant
11 10 (5.59%) Software Tester
12 8 (4.47%) Senior Test Analyst
12 8 (4.47%) Test Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.70%) Gherkin
2 11 (6.15%) Middleware
3 9 (5.03%) .NET
4 8 (4.47%) Node.js
5 7 (3.91%) HTML
5 7 (3.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (3.91%) XML
6 6 (3.35%) Web Services
7 5 (2.79%) Nightwatchjs
7 5 (2.79%) Spring
7 5 (2.79%) WebdriverIO
8 4 (2.23%) XSLT
9 3 (1.68%) RESTful
9 3 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.68%) Swagger
10 2 (1.12%) REST
11 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
11 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.56%) Behat
11 1 (0.56%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.79%) Replication
5 4 (2.23%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.23%) NHS
6 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.12%) FMCG
7 2 (1.12%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.73%) Windows
2 17 (9.50%) Linux
3 7 (3.91%) Android
4 6 (3.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (60.34%) Test Automation
2 76 (42.46%) Agile
3 48 (26.82%) Software Testing
4 45 (25.14%) DevOps
5 40 (22.35%) Collaborative Working
6 39 (21.79%) CI/CD
7 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.99%) Regression Testing
9 30 (16.76%) Coaching
9 30 (16.76%) Mentoring
9 30 (16.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (15.08%) Manual Testing
11 26 (14.53%) Performance Testing
12 24 (13.41%) BDD
13 23 (12.85%) Requirements Analysis
13 23 (12.85%) Technical Analysis
13 23 (12.85%) Test Assurance
14 22 (12.29%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (12.29%) API Testing
15 19 (10.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.53%) SQL
2 23 (12.85%) JavaScript
3 21 (11.73%) Python
4 20 (11.17%) C#
5 15 (8.38%) Java
6 12 (6.70%) Bash
7 7 (3.91%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.79%) C
9 4 (2.23%) Groovy
10 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) VB
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (37.99%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.53%) DV Cleared
3 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.50%) ISTQB
5 15 (8.38%) Degree
6 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.23%) CIPD
7 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.23%) ISEB
8 3 (1.68%) Sun Certification
9 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (49.72%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) PMO
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Docker
1 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.23%) VMware Server
2 2 (1.12%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (11.17%) Grafana
2 12 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Terraform
3 10 (5.59%) Kibana
4 1 (0.56%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 22 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.73%) Oracle
3 18 (10.06%) SAP
4 12 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.03%) Dell
6 5 (2.79%) Splunk
7 4 (2.23%) Google
7 4 (2.23%) VMware
8 3 (1.68%) Progress
9 2 (1.12%) AVEVA
9 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.56%) Ariba
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.56%) Juniper
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) Sybase