Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Chester

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £370 £500 -
% change year-on-year -26.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 57 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 82.72% 81.43% 77.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 32
10th Percentile £190 £452 £378
25th Percentile £350 £532 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +12.56% +26.47%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £588
90th Percentile £768 £741 £674
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile £12.56 £16.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £12.63 £25.50 £30.54
Median hourly rate £14.00 £35.00 £31.77
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +10.17% +45.87%
75th Percentile £20.20 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £23.17 £47.50 £38.51
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Chester

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath