Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 236 238
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +37
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 413 263 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 1.07% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.18% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 162 256
10th Percentile £317 £260 £313
25th Percentile £358 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £452
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.97% -3.06%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £559
90th Percentile £638 £612 £633
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 22
10th Percentile £25.04 £19.16 £41.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.00 £43.44
Median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -2.86% +37.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year -19.12% -2.86% +37.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,993 22,301 32,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.07% 91.14% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,750 14,633 21,159
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 919 2,234
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.99
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
London -15 176 £459 -3.47% 13
North of England -37 69 £400 -14.44% 13
Midlands -36 60 £360 +18.03% 14
West Midlands -39 50 £360 +53.19% 9
South East -50 49 £459 +14.63% 20
Yorkshire -25 42 £453 +64.73% 1
South West -15 31 £538 +29.52% 4
North West -40 24 £365 -24.16% 11
East of England -19 22 £350 -30.00% 17
East Midlands -34 10 £638 +63.04% 5
North East -17 3 £394 -4.26% 1
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (7.02%) Confluence
2 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.45%) SAS
4 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 25 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.15%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.66%) Loan IQ
4 9 (2.18%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (2.18%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.94%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.73%) Maximo
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.73%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.48%) Algo Collateral
10 2 (0.48%) BambooHR
10 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 100 (24.21%) Azure
2 74 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (10.90%) AWS
4 20 (4.84%) GCP
4 20 (4.84%) GitHub
5 16 (3.87%) OCI
6 15 (3.63%) SuccessFactors
7 14 (3.39%) Snowflake
8 12 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.18%) OpenShift
9 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.18%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.69%) SaaS
11 6 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.45%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.73%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.73%) BlazeMeter
13 3 (0.73%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.18%) Firewall
2 7 (1.69%) HTTP
3 4 (0.97%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.97%) Network Security
3 4 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (0.97%) Wireless
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.48%) LAN
4 2 (0.48%) MPLS
4 2 (0.48%) OSPF
4 2 (0.48%) SAN
4 2 (0.48%) VLAN
4 2 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.54%) Oracle Reports
2 23 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.18%) Power BI
5 7 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.45%) MySQL
7 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.48%) Metadata
9 2 (0.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 2 (0.48%) Tableau
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.24%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 136 (32.93%) JIRA
2 61 (14.77%) Postman
3 59 (14.29%) Selenium
4 44 (10.65%) Jenkins
5 37 (8.96%) Git
6 30 (7.26%) Cucumber
7 27 (6.54%) GitLab
8 25 (6.05%) Zephyr
9 24 (5.81%) JMeter
10 21 (5.08%) REST Assured
11 19 (4.60%) JUnit
12 16 (3.87%) SpecFlow
13 15 (3.63%) Cypress.io
14 14 (3.39%) WebDriver
15 11 (2.66%) Gatling
15 11 (2.66%) TestRail
16 9 (2.18%) LoadRunner
16 9 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
17 7 (1.69%) Bitbucket
17 7 (1.69%) Jaeger
General
1 171 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 88 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.58%) Finance
4 43 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.99%) Banking
6 20 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.18%) Retail
9 8 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.69%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.21%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.21%) Legal
13 4 (0.97%) Electronics
13 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.97%) Military
14 3 (0.73%) Automotive
14 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (25.67%) Analyst
2 86 (20.82%) Tester
3 68 (16.46%) Test Analyst
4 49 (11.86%) Lead
5 46 (11.14%) Test Engineer
6 30 (7.26%) Automation Tester
7 29 (7.02%) Test Leader
8 26 (6.30%) Senior
9 23 (5.57%) Test Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.84%) QA Engineer
11 19 (4.60%) Test Manager
12 18 (4.36%) QA Tester
13 17 (4.12%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.63%) Developer
15 13 (3.15%) Project Officer
16 12 (2.91%) Consultant
16 12 (2.91%) Migration Analyst
16 12 (2.91%) Oracle Analyst
16 12 (2.91%) QA Automation Engineer
16 12 (2.91%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.93%) Playwright
2 28 (6.78%) REST
3 20 (4.84%) .NET
4 18 (4.36%) Kafka
5 13 (3.15%) Middleware
6 12 (2.91%) pytest
6 12 (2.91%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.42%) HTML
7 10 (2.42%) Node.js
7 10 (2.42%) XML
8 9 (2.18%) ADO
8 9 (2.18%) LDAP
8 9 (2.18%) OpenID
8 9 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (2.18%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.69%) CSS
9 7 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.21%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.21%) React
10 5 (1.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.51%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.66%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.94%) Tandem
9 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.21%) PACS
12 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.97%) Derivative
12 4 (0.97%) FPGA
12 4 (0.97%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.05%) Windows
2 18 (4.36%) Linux
3 7 (1.69%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.48%) AIX
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (46.73%) Test Automation
2 166 (40.19%) Agile
3 118 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 104 (25.18%) DevOps
5 96 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (23.00%) Validation
7 92 (22.28%) Scenario Testing
8 89 (21.55%) CI/CD
9 83 (20.10%) Test Management
10 72 (17.43%) Migration
11 70 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (16.71%) End-to-End Testing
13 68 (16.46%) Integration Testing
13 68 (16.46%) Software Testing
14 66 (15.98%) Manual Testing
15 61 (14.77%) API Testing
15 61 (14.77%) Regression Testing
15 61 (14.77%) Test Strategy
16 59 (14.29%) Data Migration
17 56 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.07%) SQL
2 66 (15.98%) Java
3 62 (15.01%) Python
4 54 (13.08%) JavaScript
5 46 (11.14%) TypeScript
6 40 (9.69%) C#
7 7 (1.69%) Rust
8 6 (1.45%) PHP
9 5 (1.21%) Scala
10 4 (0.97%) C
10 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.73%) Ada
11 3 (0.73%) C++
11 3 (0.73%) Cypher
11 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
12 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) VB
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.65%) ISTQB
4 27 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 25 (6.05%) Degree
6 13 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (1.94%) ISEB
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CCNA
9 2 (0.48%) CCNP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.48%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (33.66%) QA
2 16 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.21%) GRC
3 5 (1.21%) SLA
4 4 (0.97%) WCAG
5 3 (0.73%) DICOM
5 3 (0.73%) HL7
5 3 (0.73%) NCSC
6 2 (0.48%) PMO
6 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (3.87%) Docker
2 10 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 24 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.66%) Grafana
3 8 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.69%) HP ALM
4 7 (1.69%) Kiali
4 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.45%) Ansible
6 5 (1.21%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.97%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) Puppet
8 2 (0.48%) Terraform
9 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 73 (17.68%) Oracle
2 37 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.96%) SAP
3 17 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.12%) Workday
4 14 (3.39%) Databricks
5 10 (2.42%) HP
6 8 (1.94%) Avaloq
6 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.94%) Splunk
7 6 (1.45%) Google
7 6 (1.45%) Talend
7 6 (1.45%) VMware
8 4 (0.97%) Ariba
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Dell
8 4 (0.97%) Hitachi
8 4 (0.97%) IBM
9 3 (0.73%) Sage
9 3 (0.73%) webMethods