Test Scripting Contracts in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 232 227
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +37
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 326 375 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.26% 1.00% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.17% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 262 368
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £630 £734
UK median daily rate £430 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -7.28% -7.25% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 28
10th Percentile £19.16 £36.75 £45.22
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.25 £55.78
Median hourly rate £75.00 £46.25 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -39.94% +40.00%
75th Percentile £86.00 £78.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.25 £77.00
% change year-on-year +62.16% -39.94% +40.00%

All Process and 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 23,546 31,936 42,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 85.56% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,157 20,719 29,767
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,176 2,324 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.14 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
London +11 141 £484 -3.30% 257
South East +44 51 £406 +1.56% 111
Midlands +26 48 £350 -11.95% 61
North of England -2 47 £450 -5.26% 86
West Midlands +33 40 £235 -40.88% 43
North West +21 34 £450 - 58
South West +25 24 £538 - 33
East of England +24 13 £388 +24.00% 49
Yorkshire -19 11 £420 -23.64% 21
East Midlands 0 8 £371 -10.45% 18
North East -5 3 £460 +10.18% 7
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.91%) Confluence
2 5 (1.53%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.92%) CICS
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.68%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (3.68%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (2.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (2.45%) SAP HR
3 8 (2.45%) SAP Payroll
4 7 (2.15%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (2.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 6 (1.84%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.84%) SAP PS
6 5 (1.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (1.53%) SAP CO
6 5 (1.53%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.80%) Azure
2 31 (9.51%) AWS
2 31 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (2.76%) SuccessFactors
4 8 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.53%) GitHub
6 5 (1.53%) OCI
6 5 (1.53%) Serverless
7 4 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.23%) SaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.61%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.61%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.91%) Firewall
2 4 (1.23%) LAN
3 3 (0.92%) DHCP
3 3 (0.92%) DNS
3 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.61%) 4G
4 2 (0.61%) 5G
4 2 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.61%) VLAN
4 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) BGP
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.31%) Skype
5 1 (0.31%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.31%) SSH
5 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.31%) VoIP
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.92%) DB2
5 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.92%) MySQL
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.92%) Power BI
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.61%) Big Data
6 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 80 (24.54%) JIRA
2 51 (15.64%) Selenium
3 46 (14.11%) Jenkins
4 32 (9.82%) Git
5 24 (7.36%) Postman
5 24 (7.36%) REST Assured
6 23 (7.06%) JMeter
7 21 (6.44%) Cucumber
8 20 (6.13%) Cypress.io
8 20 (6.13%) SoapUI
9 14 (4.29%) GitLab
10 12 (3.68%) Zephyr
11 11 (3.37%) TestNG
12 10 (3.07%) LoadRunner
13 9 (2.76%) JUnit
14 8 (2.45%) WebDriver
15 6 (1.84%) Maven
15 6 (1.84%) SpecFlow
16 5 (1.53%) Subversion
16 5 (1.53%) Toad
General
1 94 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.40%) Finance
3 50 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.83%) Banking
6 11 (3.37%) General Ledger
7 9 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.45%) Local Government
8 8 (2.45%) Retail
9 7 (2.15%) Law
9 7 (2.15%) Military
10 6 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Back Office
13 3 (0.92%) Legal
14 2 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (20.25%) Analyst
2 57 (17.48%) Tester
3 41 (12.58%) Test Analyst
4 39 (11.96%) Test Engineer
5 28 (8.59%) Senior
6 27 (8.28%) Test Manager
7 25 (7.67%) Consultant
8 22 (6.75%) Lead
9 20 (6.13%) Business Analyst
10 17 (5.21%) Automation Tester
11 16 (4.91%) Support Assistant
12 14 (4.29%) Developer
13 12 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
14 11 (3.37%) QA Engineer
14 11 (3.37%) QA Tester
14 11 (3.37%) Test Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.07%) Test Leader
16 8 (2.45%) SAP Analyst
16 8 (2.45%) Senior Test Analyst
16 8 (2.45%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.36%) Playwright
2 19 (5.83%) XML
3 18 (5.52%) SOAP
4 14 (4.29%) REST
4 14 (4.29%) Web Services
5 13 (3.99%) .NET
6 12 (3.68%) RFC 2544
7 8 (2.45%) pytest
8 6 (1.84%) HTML
8 6 (1.84%) RESTful
9 5 (1.53%) Kafka
9 5 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.23%) CSS
10 4 (1.23%) PySpark
11 3 (0.92%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.92%) JSON
12 2 (0.61%) ADO
12 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.61%) Middleware
12 2 (0.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.68%) Data Centre
1 12 (3.68%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.76%) Fibre Optics
3 8 (2.45%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.15%) SCADA
5 6 (1.84%) FPGA
5 6 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.84%) PKI
5 6 (1.84%) VHDL
6 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.23%) NHS
6 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.92%) EPoS
7 3 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.92%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.92%) PCIe
7 3 (0.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.52%) Windows
2 7 (2.15%) Linux
2 7 (2.15%) Unix
3 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.92%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.61%) Android
5 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.61%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.31%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (42.94%) Test Automation
2 103 (31.60%) Agile
3 69 (21.17%) CI/CD
3 69 (21.17%) Test Strategy
3 69 (21.17%) User Acceptance Testing
4 61 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (16.87%) DevOps
6 44 (13.50%) Validation
7 43 (13.19%) Software Testing
8 42 (12.88%) Regression Testing
9 39 (11.96%) Defect Management
10 38 (11.66%) Performance Testing
11 37 (11.35%) Scenario Testing
12 34 (10.43%) Scrum
13 33 (10.12%) API Testing
14 32 (9.82%) End-to-End Testing
14 32 (9.82%) Test Management
15 30 (9.20%) Integration Testing
15 30 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (7.98%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (21.17%) SQL
2 51 (15.64%) Python
3 46 (14.11%) Java
4 32 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.67%) C#
6 6 (1.84%) C
6 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.53%) Tcl
8 4 (1.23%) Bash
9 3 (0.92%) ABAP
9 3 (0.92%) COBOL
9 3 (0.92%) JCL
9 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.61%) RPG
10 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.31%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.31%) Groovy
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.98%) ISTQB
4 17 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.68%) Degree
6 9 (2.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.84%) ISEB
9 3 (0.92%) CCNA
9 3 (0.92%) CCNP
9 3 (0.92%) CEH
9 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.92%) CISSP
10 2 (0.61%) MCSA
10 2 (0.61%) MCSE
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.31%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (27.61%) QA
2 20 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.52%) SLA
4 6 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.23%) WCAG
6 3 (0.92%) NCSC
6 3 (0.92%) NIST
6 3 (0.92%) SEPA
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 2 (0.61%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) DICOM
8 1 (0.31%) ECSS
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (3.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (1.84%) HP ALM
1 6 (1.84%) Kibana
1 6 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.61%) Check_MK
2 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.61%) Perfmon
2 2 (0.61%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.31%) CA Wily
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.31%) OPNET
Vendors
1 46 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.58%) SAP
3 35 (10.74%) Oracle
4 17 (5.21%) Cisco
5 15 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.07%) HP
7 8 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.84%) Workday
9 5 (1.53%) UiPath
9 5 (1.53%) webMethods
10 4 (1.23%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.23%) Reuters
10 4 (1.23%) VMware
11 3 (0.92%) Databricks
11 3 (0.92%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.92%) Google
11 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.92%) Splunk
12 2 (0.61%) Zscaler