Test Scripting Contracts in Central London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 103 93 155
Rank change year-on-year -10 +62 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 26 40 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 1.64% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.81% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 14
10th Percentile - £421 £326
25th Percentile £413 £489 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.55% +15.70%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £654
90th Percentile £675 £645 £770
London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Central London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 26 £475 -13.64% 5
Southwark -4 1 £425 -15.00%
Test Scripting
London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.85%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP PS
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Selenium
2 10 (38.46%) Postman
3 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (34.62%) JIRA
3 9 (34.62%) REST Assured
4 7 (26.92%) Git
5 4 (15.38%) JMeter
6 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Python Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Test Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) QA Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.85%) SAP MM Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP SCM Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Supply Chain Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Supply Chain Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) pytest
2 8 (30.77%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) Jest
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) Pandas
5 1 (3.85%) PySpark
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
1 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
1 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) Test Strategy
3 9 (34.62%) API Testing
3 9 (34.62%) BDD
4 7 (26.92%) Open Source
4 7 (26.92%) Validation
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
8 2 (7.69%) Data Validation
8 2 (7.69%) Integration Testing
8 2 (7.69%) TDD
8 2 (7.69%) Use Case
8 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) Murex
3 1 (3.85%) QAD
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce