Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 3.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Essex median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Test Scripting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 15 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 92.31% 88.24% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 16
10th Percentile £226 - £103
25th Percentile £300 £315 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £320 £563
Median % change year-on-year +42.97% -43.11% +11.87%
75th Percentile £515 £388 £600
90th Percentile £526 £486 £638
Essex median daily rate £375 £330 £450
% change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 17
10th Percentile £31.90 - £45.76
25th Percentile £52.19 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -57.14% +11.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £80.00
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
Essex median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +7.69% -10.34%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Basildon

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fiserv
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Ingenico