Test Scripting Contracts in the East of England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 99 92
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -20
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 16 31 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.84% 1.49% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.71% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 30
10th Percentile - £211 £193
25th Percentile £306 £300 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +5.14% +0.71%
75th Percentile £378 £542 £518
90th Percentile £421 £655 £519
England median daily rate £452 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -4.84% +7.95% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 5
10th Percentile - £58.28 £45.73
25th Percentile - £65.19 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £77.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +40.00% +144.44%
75th Percentile - £89.38 -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £63.75 £44.97
% change year-on-year +33.33% +41.78% +33.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the East of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the East of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the East of England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -4 14 £313 -38.21% 1
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £440 +41.94% 7
Bedfordshire - 1 £395 -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (6.25%) Gerrit
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) C Software Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Embedded C Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Embedded C Software Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Embedded Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) OAT Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) OAT Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Angular 2
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (6.25%) JPA
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Test Automation
2 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) Validation
2 10 (62.50%) Verification and Validation
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) API Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) MVC
5 1 (6.25%) Post-Production
5 1 (6.25%) Release Management
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum
5 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C
1 10 (62.50%) Embedded C
2 8 (50.00%) C++
2 8 (50.00%) Embedded C++
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat