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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 224 244
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 405 275 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.14% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.25% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 176 245
10th Percentile £319 £261 £309
25th Percentile £359 £354 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £454
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% -6.39% -9.20%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £629 £630
UK median daily rate £453 £425 £454
% change year-on-year +6.59% -6.39% -6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 18
10th Percentile £25.19 £19.16 -
25th Percentile £36.35 £45.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +3.03% +18.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -19.12% +3.03% +18.28%

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 34,393 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,924 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -15 167 £454 -4.37% 22
North of England -40 67 £400 -5.88% 9
Midlands -38 62 £368 +22.67% 9
West Midlands -40 48 £362 +53.83% 5
South East -54 45 £500 +23.08% 26
Yorkshire -21 41 £461 +67.45% 5
South West -15 34 £538 +13.16% 12
East of England -20 23 £350 -12.50% 12
North West -44 23 £365 -23.16% 4
East Midlands -24 14 £638 +72.06% 4
North East -17 3 £394 -6.25%
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 33 (8.15%) Confluence
2 10 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 25 (6.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.96%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.72%) Loan IQ
4 9 (2.22%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.98%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (1.23%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.99%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.74%) Maximo
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.74%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.49%) HFM
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.49%) SAP GTS
10 2 (0.49%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.70%) Azure
2 70 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (10.86%) AWS
4 18 (4.44%) GCP
5 16 (3.95%) OCI
6 15 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
7 14 (3.46%) GitHub
8 13 (3.21%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.73%) SaaS
11 6 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.48%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.23%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.99%) Tricentis Tosca
14 3 (0.74%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.74%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.22%) Firewall
2 6 (1.48%) HTTP
3 5 (1.23%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.23%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.23%) Wireless
4 4 (0.99%) Network Security
5 2 (0.49%) BGP
5 2 (0.49%) FTP
5 2 (0.49%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.49%) LAN
5 2 (0.49%) MPLS
5 2 (0.49%) OSPF
5 2 (0.49%) SAN
5 2 (0.49%) VLAN
5 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) WAN
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.91%) Oracle Reports
2 24 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.96%) Power BI
5 7 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.48%) MySQL
7 5 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.49%) Metadata
10 2 (0.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 2 (0.49%) Tableau
11 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.25%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 133 (32.84%) JIRA
2 58 (14.32%) Postman
3 53 (13.09%) Selenium
4 38 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 32 (7.90%) Git
6 26 (6.42%) GitLab
7 25 (6.17%) Zephyr
8 23 (5.68%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.94%) REST Assured
10 19 (4.69%) JMeter
11 14 (3.46%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.46%) SpecFlow
12 13 (3.21%) JUnit
12 13 (3.21%) WebDriver
13 11 (2.72%) Gatling
14 10 (2.47%) Rational DOORS
14 10 (2.47%) TestRail
15 9 (2.22%) LoadRunner
16 7 (1.73%) Jaeger
17 6 (1.48%) Appium
General
1 160 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 91 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (21.23%) Finance
4 40 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.90%) Banking
6 23 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.22%) Retail
10 8 (1.98%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.73%) General Ledger
11 7 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.23%) Automotive
13 5 (1.23%) Legal
13 5 (1.23%) Military
14 4 (0.99%) Electronics
15 3 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (26.17%) Analyst
2 80 (19.75%) Tester
3 59 (14.57%) Test Analyst
4 47 (11.60%) Lead
5 43 (10.62%) Test Engineer
6 29 (7.16%) Test Leader
7 27 (6.67%) Automation Tester
8 23 (5.68%) Senior
8 23 (5.68%) Test Automation Engineer
9 22 (5.43%) Business Analyst
10 21 (5.19%) Test Manager
11 18 (4.44%) QA Tester
12 17 (4.20%) QA Engineer
13 15 (3.70%) Consultant
14 13 (3.21%) Project Officer
15 12 (2.96%) Migration Analyst
15 12 (2.96%) Oracle Analyst
16 11 (2.72%) Developer
16 11 (2.72%) Transformation Analyst
17 10 (2.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.14%) Playwright
2 26 (6.42%) REST
3 19 (4.69%) .NET
4 15 (3.70%) Kafka
5 13 (3.21%) Middleware
6 11 (2.72%) pytest
6 11 (2.72%) SailPoint
7 10 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (2.22%) ADO
8 9 (2.22%) HTML
8 9 (2.22%) LDAP
8 9 (2.22%) OpenID
9 8 (1.98%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.73%) Node.js
10 7 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.48%) CSS
11 6 (1.48%) React
12 5 (1.23%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.23%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.16%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.68%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.72%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.98%) Tandem
7 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.23%) FPGA
9 5 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.23%) PACS
9 5 (1.23%) PCIe
10 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.20%) Windows
2 15 (3.70%) Linux
3 7 (1.73%) Android
4 5 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.23%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.49%) AIX
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (44.20%) Test Automation
2 164 (40.49%) Agile
3 118 (29.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 99 (24.44%) DevOps
5 95 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (22.96%) Validation
7 90 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
8 80 (19.75%) Migration
9 79 (19.51%) CI/CD
9 79 (19.51%) Test Management
10 70 (17.28%) End-to-End Testing
11 68 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (16.30%) Integration Testing
13 64 (15.80%) Data Migration
13 64 (15.80%) Software Testing
14 61 (15.06%) Manual Testing
14 61 (15.06%) Test Strategy
15 60 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 56 (13.83%) API Testing
16 56 (13.83%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.26%) SQL
2 60 (14.81%) Python
3 54 (13.33%) Java
4 48 (11.85%) JavaScript
5 40 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 35 (8.64%) C#
7 7 (1.73%) Rust
8 6 (1.48%) PHP
9 5 (1.23%) C
9 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.23%) Scala
10 4 (0.99%) C++
11 3 (0.74%) Ada
11 3 (0.74%) Cypher
11 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.49%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.12%) ISTQB
4 27 (6.67%) Degree
4 27 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.23%) ISEB
9 2 (0.49%) ACCA
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.49%) CCNA
9 2 (0.49%) CCNP
9 2 (0.49%) CIMA
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (31.60%) QA
2 20 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.48%) NCSC
5 5 (1.23%) GRC
5 5 (1.23%) SLA
6 4 (0.99%) WCAG
7 3 (0.74%) DICOM
7 3 (0.74%) HL7
7 3 (0.74%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.49%) IFRS
8 2 (0.49%) PMO
8 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.25%) Basel III
9 1 (0.25%) GDPR
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (3.46%) Docker
2 9 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (0.49%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) SRDF
4 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.72%) Grafana
3 8 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.73%) HP ALM
4 7 (1.73%) Kiali
4 7 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.99%) Kibana
7 3 (0.74%) Ansible
8 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Terraform
9 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (17.53%) Oracle
2 38 (9.38%) SAP
3 34 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.95%) Workday
5 13 (3.21%) Databricks
6 10 (2.47%) HP
7 8 (1.98%) Splunk
8 6 (1.48%) Avaloq
8 6 (1.48%) Google
8 6 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.48%) Talend
9 4 (0.99%) Cisco
9 4 (0.99%) Dell
9 4 (0.99%) Hitachi
10 3 (0.74%) Braze
10 3 (0.74%) Denodo
10 3 (0.74%) IBM
10 3 (0.74%) JD Edwards
10 3 (0.74%) Sage