Test Scripting Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 99 107
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 14 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.70% 1.01% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.06% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile - £398 £290
25th Percentile £363 £413 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.24% +8.69%
75th Percentile £600 £456 £575
90th Percentile £641 £485 £620
Scotland median daily rate £388 £450 £423
% change year-on-year -13.89% +6.51% +12.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 1,228 1,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.08% 95.19% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 879 1,254
10th Percentile £230 £252 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £558
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 18
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.07 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -41.75% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) WebDriver
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 3 (21.43%) JMeter
3 3 (21.43%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Automation Tester
1 5 (35.71%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Change Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Fund Accounting Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) UAT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Equities
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Management
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Scalability Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Usability Testing
4 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Burndown Charts
5 2 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Blue Prism
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle