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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 241 179
Rank change year-on-year +20 -62 +101
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 380 306 525
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.01% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.15% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 198 360
10th Percentile £300 £306 £356
25th Percentile £360 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £492
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -8.13% +6.38%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £630 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 33
10th Percentile £42.50 £46.20 £76.53
25th Percentile £55.38 £61.13 £83.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £86.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% -4.44% +38.73%
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £90.00
% change year-on-year +80.00% -58.33% +38.73%

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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +21 175 £500 - 27
South East -9 55 £475 +15.15% 73
Midlands -19 47 £425 +17.24% 56
North of England -32 47 £400 -15.79% 60
West Midlands -14 36 £476 +32.61% 28
North West -9 31 £400 - 24
South West -3 23 £520 -0.95% 33
East of England -11 17 £406 +30.00% 49
Yorkshire -38 13 £400 -20.00% 33
East Midlands -16 11 £360 -0.69% 24
North East -3 3 £300 -29.41% 3
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 19 (5.00%) Confluence
2 12 (3.16%) SAS
3 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) CMS
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
Applications
1 14 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (5.53%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (3.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (3.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 11 (2.89%) Oracle Financials
6 10 (2.63%) Oracle Assets
6 10 (2.63%) Oracle Cash Management
6 10 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (1.84%) Aladdin
9 4 (1.05%) Loan IQ
10 3 (0.79%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.79%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.79%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.79%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.53%) Algo Collateral
11 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.53%) Maximo
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 67 (17.63%) Azure
2 51 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (7.11%) AWS
4 17 (4.47%) OpenShift
5 16 (4.21%) GitHub
6 12 (3.16%) OCI
7 11 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.37%) GCP
9 9 (2.37%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (2.37%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.84%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.58%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.32%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.32%) Sentry
13 4 (1.05%) PaaS
13 4 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.47%) Firewall
2 8 (2.11%) HTTP
3 5 (1.32%) DNS
4 4 (1.05%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.79%) 4G
5 3 (0.79%) 5G
5 3 (0.79%) BGP
5 3 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.79%) DHCP
5 3 (0.79%) LAN
5 3 (0.79%) MPLS
5 3 (0.79%) Multicast
5 3 (0.79%) OSPF
5 3 (0.79%) VLAN
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
5 3 (0.79%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.53%) VoIP
6 2 (0.53%) WAAS
6 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (2.11%) BigQuery
2 8 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.84%) Big Data
3 7 (1.84%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.84%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.58%) Power BI
5 5 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.53%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 92 (24.21%) JIRA
2 73 (19.21%) Selenium
3 45 (11.84%) Postman
4 42 (11.05%) Jenkins
5 34 (8.95%) Git
6 31 (8.16%) Cucumber
7 30 (7.89%) GitLab
8 26 (6.84%) JUnit
9 20 (5.26%) Cypress.io
10 18 (4.74%) REST Assured
11 17 (4.47%) JMeter
12 14 (3.68%) Appium
13 13 (3.42%) SpecFlow
14 11 (2.89%) WebDriver
15 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
15 9 (2.37%) Rational DOORS
16 8 (2.11%) TestRail
17 7 (1.84%) SoapUI
17 7 (1.84%) Zephyr
18 6 (1.58%) TestNG
General
1 144 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 93 (24.47%) Finance
3 59 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.32%) Banking
6 23 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.89%) General Ledger
8 11 (2.89%) Local Government
9 10 (2.63%) Military
10 8 (2.11%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.84%) Billing
11 7 (1.84%) Legal
12 6 (1.58%) Back Office
12 6 (1.58%) Law
12 6 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.32%) Electronics
13 5 (1.32%) Retail
14 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (23.95%) Analyst
2 73 (19.21%) Tester
3 66 (17.37%) Test Analyst
4 41 (10.79%) Test Engineer
5 40 (10.53%) Lead
6 36 (9.47%) Senior
7 32 (8.42%) Consultant
8 23 (6.05%) QA Engineer
9 19 (5.00%) Automation Tester
9 19 (5.00%) Test Leader
10 16 (4.21%) Test Specialist
11 15 (3.95%) Functional Consultant
11 15 (3.95%) Oracle Analyst
11 15 (3.95%) Oracle Consultant
11 15 (3.95%) Test Automation Engineer
12 14 (3.68%) QA Tester
13 13 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 12 (3.16%) Developer
14 12 (3.16%) SAP Analyst
15 11 (2.89%) SAP Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.42%) Playwright
2 23 (6.05%) REST
3 15 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (3.95%) pytest
4 14 (3.68%) XML
5 12 (3.16%) SOAP
6 11 (2.89%) Node.js
7 10 (2.63%) .NET
7 10 (2.63%) ADO
7 10 (2.63%) RFC 2544
8 9 (2.37%) Web Services
9 7 (1.84%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (1.84%) HTML
9 7 (1.84%) Kafka
9 7 (1.84%) Middleware
9 7 (1.84%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.58%) RESTful
10 6 (1.58%) Spring
11 5 (1.32%) CSS
11 5 (1.32%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.84%) Fibre Optics
7 6 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.32%) PKI
9 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.05%) NHS
9 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.05%) PCIe
9 4 (1.05%) SCADA
10 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.84%) Windows
2 15 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.68%) Android
4 9 (2.37%) Linux
5 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.53%) Unix
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (47.11%) Test Automation
2 129 (33.95%) Agile
3 122 (32.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 93 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 91 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (21.84%) DevOps
6 83 (21.84%) Test Strategy
7 70 (18.42%) Regression Testing
7 70 (18.42%) Software Testing
8 68 (17.89%) Validation
9 66 (17.37%) Defect Management
10 54 (14.21%) Scenario Testing
11 51 (13.42%) Test Management
12 49 (12.89%) Integration Testing
13 46 (12.11%) End-to-End Testing
14 42 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.26%) Scrum
16 38 (10.00%) Manual Testing
16 38 (10.00%) Migration
17 37 (9.74%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.05%) SQL
2 54 (14.21%) Python
3 50 (13.16%) Java
4 40 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 33 (8.68%) C#
6 26 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.58%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.58%) VB.NET
8 5 (1.32%) Ada
8 5 (1.32%) C
8 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.32%) Swift
9 4 (1.05%) Bash
10 3 (0.79%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 93 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.42%) Degree
4 29 (7.63%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.63%) ISEB
8 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.79%) CCNP
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCIE
12 2 (0.53%) MCSA
12 2 (0.53%) MCSE
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (32.89%) QA
2 31 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.32%) WCAG
5 4 (1.05%) NCSC
6 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) GAAP
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) ITGC
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (5.00%) Docker
2 7 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.63%) Ansible
3 9 (2.37%) HP ALM
4 7 (1.84%) Grafana
5 5 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.79%) Iperf
6 3 (0.79%) Nmap
6 3 (0.79%) Terraform
7 2 (0.53%) SCCM
8 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.26%) SCOM
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (17.89%) Oracle
2 40 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.63%) SAP
4 16 (4.21%) Cisco
5 15 (3.95%) Splunk
6 12 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.89%) Databricks
7 11 (2.89%) HP
8 7 (1.84%) UiPath
8 7 (1.84%) VMware
9 6 (1.58%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.32%) webMethods
10 5 (1.32%) Workday
11 4 (1.05%) Optimizely
11 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.79%) Charles River
12 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.79%) Palo Alto