Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.31% 0.96% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.11% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £267 - £411
25th Percentile £270 £500 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £513 £478
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% +7.33% +12.35%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £517
90th Percentile £486 - £533
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 449 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.68% 86.51% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 274 220
10th Percentile £270 £326 £289
25th Percentile £358 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £567 £584
90th Percentile £688 £647 £615
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.70
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +41.10% +54.36%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.75 £35.01
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.02
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.16% +40.06%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Cheshire

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Knutsford - 5 £270 -
Chester - 1 £675 -
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) DB2
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) TestRail
4 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 2 (22.22%) IntelliJ
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 2 (22.22%) Zephyr
5 1 (11.11%) Appium
5 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 3 (33.33%) UAT Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) UAT Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) UAT Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mainframe
1 2 (22.22%) VSAM
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (55.56%) Test Management
1 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) COBOL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) JCL
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) UiPath