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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 92 139
Rank change year-on-year -14 +47 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 26 36 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.40% 1.74% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.89% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 17
10th Percentile £356 £414 £420
25th Percentile £422 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £688 - £800
90th Percentile £718 £724 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £625
% change year-on-year +1.38% -13.20% +33.33%

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 1,754 1,902 2,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.25% 91.71% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,270 2,023
10th Percentile £325 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £721
90th Percentile £773 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

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 15 August 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
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%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.85%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (3.85%) SAP PS
3 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.85%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
1 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.85%) OCI
4 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 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 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Postman
2 5 (19.23%) Selenium
3 4 (15.38%) JMeter
3 4 (15.38%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
5 1 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Back Office
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Consultant
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Tester
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Developer in Test
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) ADO
1 2 (7.69%) pytest
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) Pandas
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
2 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Test Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 4 (15.38%) User Stories
6 4 (15.38%) Validation
7 3 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (11.54%) Defect Management
7 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (11.54%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
2 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.85%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) Murex
4 1 (3.85%) UiPath