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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 48 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 10 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.52% 0.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £268 £429 -
25th Percentile £288 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £566 £523 -
North West median daily rate £425 £413 £513
% change year-on-year +3.03% -19.51% +30.16%

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 599 441 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.17% 85.63% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 274 189
10th Percentile £305 £326 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £588
90th Percentile £685 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +57.30%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -
Macclesfield - 1 £500 -
Chester - 1 £675 - 2
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 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) TestRail
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (20.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (10.00%) Appium
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) UAT Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) UAT Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) UAT Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Supply Chain Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (20.00%) VSAM
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (50.00%) Test Management
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) COBOL
2 2 (20.00%) JCL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) UiPath