Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.62% 1.55% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.73% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £270 £352 £193
25th Percentile £328 £376 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +20.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £413
90th Percentile £485 £511 £488
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +19.13% -11.11% +7.14%

All Process & 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 700 578 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.63% 89.47% 84.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 392 385
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £400 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £648 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £518 £488
% change year-on-year -3.38% +6.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 43
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.43
25th Percentile £16.08 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +105.41%
75th Percentile £23.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
% change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +38.97%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (20.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Trainer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (20.00%) Cash Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Ariba
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft