Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in East London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London 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 21 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 1.79% - 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% - 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £375 - £455
25th Percentile £398 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.91%
75th Percentile £493 - -
90th Percentile £520 - £558
London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 149 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 94.64% 97.39% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 130 207
10th Percentile £190 £300 £202
25th Percentile £313 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £521 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.47% +8.00%
75th Percentile £589 £599 £650
90th Percentile £706 £722 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 £14.71
25th Percentile £23.79 £21.13 £15.52
Median hourly rate £28.58 £21.80 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +29.35% -37.55%
75th Percentile £54.88 £23.09 £17.89
90th Percentile £84.82 £23.48 £18.51
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in East London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in East London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in East London

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £360 -
Havering - 1 £525 -
Test Scripting
London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) ETRM
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle