Test Scripting Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 8 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.25% 1.47% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.88% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £340 £356 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £465 £306
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +51.84% -31.94%
75th Percentile £548 £519 £441
90th Percentile £663 £538 £536
England median daily rate £429 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.68% -5.00% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 566 637 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.58% 77.97% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 434 678
10th Percentile £250 £200 £224
25th Percentile £340 £278 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £422 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% -11.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £593
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 57 47
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.41 £12.34
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.75 £15.98
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -27.66% +17.50%
75th Percentile £21.79 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £34.91 £42.35 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £37.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -25.13% +1.99% +47.08%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Northamptonshire -9 4 £340 -6.21% 16
Leicestershire +3 1 - - 9
Derbyshire - 1 £550 - 16
Nottinghamshire - 1 £650 - 9
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (25.00%) DB2
3 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) Introscope
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Apigee Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) FPGA
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) VHDL
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Development
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (25.00%) FPGA Design
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) COBOL
3 2 (25.00%) JCL
4 1 (12.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) HP