Test Scripting Contracts in the City of London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 90 161
Rank change year-on-year -3 +71 -3
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 26 37 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.48% 1.68% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.86% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 14
10th Percentile - £427 £326
25th Percentile £413 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.55% +15.70%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £654
90th Percentile £675 £690 £770
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £498
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.55% +15.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the City of London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London Bridge -2 1 £425 -15.00%
Test Scripting
Central London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.85%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP PS
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Selenium
2 10 (38.46%) Postman
3 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (34.62%) JIRA
3 9 (34.62%) REST Assured
4 7 (26.92%) Git
5 4 (15.38%) JMeter
6 3 (11.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Python Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Test Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) QA Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.85%) SAP MM Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP SCM Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Supply Chain Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Supply Chain Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) pytest
2 8 (30.77%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) Playwright
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) Jest
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) Pandas
5 1 (3.85%) PySpark
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
1 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
1 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) Test Strategy
3 9 (34.62%) API Testing
3 9 (34.62%) BDD
4 7 (26.92%) Open Source
4 7 (26.92%) Validation
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
8 2 (7.69%) Data Validation
8 2 (7.69%) Integration Testing
8 2 (7.69%) TDD
8 2 (7.69%) Use Case
8 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) Murex
3 1 (3.85%) QAD
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce