Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.19% 2.86% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 3.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -
75th Percentile £395 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £376 £380 -
% change year-on-year -0.99% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 97 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.29% 92.38% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 76 92
10th Percentile £456 £403 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.23%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £602
90th Percentile £665 £663 £671
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -46.72%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Croydon

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker