Test Scripting Contracts in Birmingham

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 60 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 7 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.91% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.09% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile - £187 -
25th Percentile £481 £194 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% -21.88% +45.45%
75th Percentile £494 £378 £433
90th Percentile £520 £423 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £235 £448 £422
% change year-on-year -47.54% +6.16% +4.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
2 2 (28.57%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kibana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) AVEVA
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle