Test Scripting Contracts in Cheshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 14 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.47% 2.17% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.54% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £340 £374 £605
25th Percentile £370 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -30.15% +60.00%
75th Percentile £507 £497 £684
90th Percentile £529 £529 £731
North West median daily rate £440 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% - -
North West median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year +102.35% - -

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 531 472 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 93.82% 85.20% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 316 292
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £476 £522
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -8.68% +15.89%
75th Percentile £537 £578 £588
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +17.06% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Cheshire

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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 3 July 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
Chester -4 6 - -
Knutsford -16 3 £340 -28.42% 2
Macclesfield - 1 £500 -
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (14.29%) CICS
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) SAP HR
1 6 (42.86%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (14.29%) SAP CO
2 2 (14.29%) SAP FI
2 2 (14.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DB2
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) IntelliJ
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Payroll Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) SAP Payroll Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SAP HR Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) HR Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Tester
5 1 (7.14%) SAP HR Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Supply Chain Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
1 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Black-Box Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (21.43%) System Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) ABAP
1 2 (14.29%) COBOL
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JCL
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Workday