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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 207 241
Rank change year-on-year -102 +34 -50
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 383 378 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.35% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.49% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 281 220
10th Percentile £278 £293 £306
25th Percentile £368 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -1.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £575
90th Percentile £588 £638 £627
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 2
10th Percentile £39.63 £25.63 £38.38
25th Percentile £40.00 £31.29 £41.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -17.95% -45.83%
75th Percentile £74.00 £46.88 £56.56
90th Percentile - £61.25 £60.13
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £31.55
% change year-on-year +75.00% +26.78% -64.94%

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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -108 145 £500 - 121
South East -67 62 £500 +5.26% 51
Midlands -22 57 £382 +6.11% 29
West Midlands -9 48 £382 +11.13% 20
North of England -77 45 £407 -1.33% 35
East of England -1 34 £74 -81.21% 19
South West -33 30 £525 -2.33% 20
North West -56 24 £402 -2.55% 18
Yorkshire -36 18 £404 -3.93% 13
East Midlands -18 8 £250 -30.56% 9
North East -38 3 £453 +25.83% 4
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 51 (13.32%) Confluence
2 10 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.78%) SAS
3 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 32 (8.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.13%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.04%) HFM
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.04%) SAP CO
5 4 (1.04%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.04%) SAP FI
5 4 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.04%) SAP GTS
5 4 (1.04%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.04%) SAP VC
6 3 (0.78%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.78%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.52%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.37%) Azure
2 53 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (11.49%) AWS
4 26 (6.79%) GitHub
5 15 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.87%) GCP
7 8 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (1.83%) SaaS
9 6 (1.57%) Figma
9 6 (1.57%) Pendo
9 6 (1.57%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.31%) OCI
10 5 (1.31%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.04%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.35%) Wireless
2 6 (1.57%) Broadband
2 6 (1.57%) Ethernet
2 6 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.31%) DNS
3 5 (1.31%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.04%) 4G
4 4 (1.04%) 5G
4 4 (1.04%) HTTP
4 4 (1.04%) IPv4
4 4 (1.04%) IPv6
4 4 (1.04%) xDSL
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) PPP
5 3 (0.78%) UPnP
5 3 (0.78%) VoIP
5 3 (0.78%) WAN
6 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.52%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (7.83%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (3.92%) Power BI
4 11 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.31%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.31%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.04%) Tableau
7 3 (0.78%) Metadata
7 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.52%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 125 (32.64%) JIRA
2 54 (14.10%) Selenium
3 49 (12.79%) Postman
4 39 (10.18%) Git
5 32 (8.36%) Jenkins
6 30 (7.83%) Zephyr
7 29 (7.57%) JMeter
8 27 (7.05%) Cucumber
9 22 (5.74%) GitLab
10 16 (4.18%) LoadRunner
11 14 (3.66%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.66%) Gatling
11 14 (3.66%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.61%) JUnit
13 9 (2.35%) NeoLoad
13 9 (2.35%) SoapUI
14 8 (2.09%) Bitbucket
14 8 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
14 8 (2.09%) TestNG
15 7 (1.83%) WebDriver
General
1 162 (42.30%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.63%) Finance
3 78 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (13.84%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.09%) Banking
6 12 (3.13%) Legal
7 11 (2.87%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.35%) Automotive
10 8 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.83%) Billing
11 7 (1.83%) General Ledger
11 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.83%) Military
12 6 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.57%) Retail
13 3 (0.78%) Back Office
13 3 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (22.45%) Analyst
2 60 (15.67%) Test Engineer
3 56 (14.62%) Tester
4 47 (12.27%) Consultant
5 43 (11.23%) Test Analyst
6 40 (10.44%) Lead
7 32 (8.36%) Business Analyst
8 27 (7.05%) Senior
9 18 (4.70%) Test Leader
9 18 (4.70%) Test Manager
10 17 (4.44%) QA Engineer
10 17 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
11 16 (4.18%) QA Tester
12 14 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Principal Software Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) SAP Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Developer
15 10 (2.61%) SAP Consultant
15 10 (2.61%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.36%) Playwright
2 16 (4.18%) .NET
3 14 (3.66%) REST
4 13 (3.39%) RESTful
4 13 (3.39%) SOAP
5 12 (3.13%) HTML
6 10 (2.61%) React
6 10 (2.61%) Web Services
7 9 (2.35%) XML
8 8 (2.09%) Middleware
8 8 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.83%) Kafka
10 5 (1.31%) ADO
10 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.31%) Terraform
11 4 (1.04%) Node.js
11 4 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (1.04%) XBRL
12 3 (0.78%) JSON
12 3 (0.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.48%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.83%) CMDB
9 6 (1.57%) NHS
10 5 (1.31%) FPGA
10 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.31%) PCIe
11 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.04%) Life Science
12 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.53%) Windows
2 22 (5.74%) Linux
3 8 (2.09%) VMS
4 5 (1.31%) Android
4 5 (1.31%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.78%) Unix
6 2 (0.52%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.26%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (44.39%) Test Automation
2 162 (42.30%) Agile
3 128 (33.42%) User Acceptance Testing
4 93 (24.28%) Scenario Testing
5 90 (23.50%) Validation
6 87 (22.72%) End-to-End Testing
7 82 (21.41%) Migration
8 80 (20.89%) Software Testing
9 77 (20.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 76 (19.84%) Defect Management
10 76 (19.84%) DevOps
11 75 (19.58%) CI/CD
12 74 (19.32%) Test Management
13 70 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (17.49%) Test Strategy
15 64 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (16.71%) Data Migration
16 58 (15.14%) Integration Testing
17 57 (14.88%) Regression Testing
18 56 (14.62%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.58%) SQL
2 49 (12.79%) Java
3 44 (11.49%) Python
4 32 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.92%) C#
6 14 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.35%) ABAP
8 8 (2.09%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.31%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.31%) C
10 4 (1.04%) C++
10 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.78%) Groovy
11 3 (0.78%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.78%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.52%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) PeopleCode
Qualifications
1 134 (34.99%) Security Cleared
2 96 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.49%) ISTQB
4 34 (8.88%) Degree
5 33 (8.62%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.83%) ACCA
9 7 (1.83%) CIMA
10 6 (1.57%) ISEB
11 2 (0.52%) CBAP
11 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.52%) MOS
11 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (31.07%) QA
2 25 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.96%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.09%) WCAG
5 7 (1.83%) NCSC
6 5 (1.31%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.04%) IFRS
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.04%) SEPA
8 3 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.52%) DICOM
9 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) NIST
9 2 (0.52%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) GDPR
10 1 (0.26%) GMP
10 1 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (4.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) vSphere
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.35%) Grafana
3 5 (1.31%) HP ALM
4 4 (1.04%) Control-M
4 4 (1.04%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.52%) Kibana
6 2 (0.52%) OPNET
7 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (14.88%) Oracle
2 56 (14.62%) SAP
3 38 (9.92%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.35%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.09%) Databricks
9 6 (1.57%) Splunk
10 5 (1.31%) Conga
10 5 (1.31%) Denodo
10 5 (1.31%) GoCardless
10 5 (1.31%) HP
10 5 (1.31%) IBM
10 5 (1.31%) Talend
11 4 (1.04%) Ariba
11 4 (1.04%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.04%) Tagetik
11 4 (1.04%) VMware
12 3 (0.78%) Centrify