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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 90 158
Rank change year-on-year -9 +68 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 25 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 1.72% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.89% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 17
10th Percentile - £421 £390
25th Percentile £413 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.11% +7.37%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £800
90th Percentile £698 £741 -
London median daily rate £475 £500 £536
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% +4.13%

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 1,795 2,165 3,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.49% 90.97% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,519 2,248
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £449 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 24 28
10th Percentile £21.78 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £49.25 £30.28 £53.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £39.92
% change year-on-year +11.11% -26.72% +9.63%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -10 24 £500 -16.67% 19
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 (4.00%) IIS
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP PS
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
1 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (8.00%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Selenium
2 8 (32.00%) Postman
3 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (28.00%) JIRA
3 7 (28.00%) REST Assured
4 4 (16.00%) Git
4 4 (16.00%) JMeter
4 4 (16.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Gatling
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.00%) TestNG
5 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
1 5 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) QA Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SAP MM Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SAP MM Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SAP PP Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SAP PP Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) SAP SCM Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) pytest
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) Playwright
4 2 (8.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.00%) HTML
5 1 (4.00%) JSON
5 1 (4.00%) Pandas
5 1 (4.00%) PySpark
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
1 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 7 (28.00%) API Testing
4 7 (28.00%) BDD
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Regression Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Validation
7 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (16.00%) Open Source
8 3 (12.00%) Migration
8 3 (12.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) TDD
8 3 (12.00%) Use Case
8 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) HP
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) Murex
4 1 (4.00%) QAD
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce