Test Scripting Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts) UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	165	163	147
Rank change year-on-year	-2	-16
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting	657	786	817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.52%	1.59%	1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.79%	1.90%	2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	404	467	520
Median daily rate	£365	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.66%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£265	£255
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£525	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£340	£350	£335
% change year-on-year	-2.85%	+4.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted	13	13	10
Median hourly rate	£37.50	£37.00	£31.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.35%	+18.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£16.46	£16.40	£22.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.20	£48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£37.50	£37.00	£30.50
% change year-on-year	+1.35%	+21.31%

Test Scripting is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	36606	41272	40599
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.68%	83.46%	80.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	24006	27689	26589
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+8.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	948	976	1113
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.83	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.75	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+21.92%	-5.00%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-12	270	£400	-	57
South East	-24	101	£363	-3.33%	27
South West	+37	78	£340	-2.85%	17
Yorkshire	+39	60	£350	+2.94%	20
East of England	+21	53	£338	-25.00%	9
West Midlands	+19	39	£313	-12.28%	14
North West	-35	18	£275	-20.28%	22
East Midlands	-18	17	£250	-16.66%	7
North East	+45	14	£325	+0.77%	3
Midlands	+9	1	£358	+10.00%	21
Test Scripting UK

Test Scripting
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Test Scripting.

1	520 (37.96%)	Test Automation
2	482 (35.18%)	Agile Software Development
3	335 (24.45%)	User Acceptance Testing
4	311 (22.70%)	Finance
5	291 (21.24%)	Selenium
6	284 (20.73%)	SQL
7	261 (19.05%)	Test Strategy
8	239 (17.45%)	Java
9	218 (15.91%)	QA
10	199 (14.53%)	Scenario Testing
11	185 (13.50%)	Scrum
11	185 (13.50%)	Banking
12	182 (13.28%)	JIRA
13	174 (12.70%)	ISEB
14	169 (12.34%)	Oracle

15	166 (12.12%)	Regression Testing
16	156 (11.39%)	ISTQB
17	153 (11.17%)	Functional Testing
18	151 (11.02%)	BDD
19	146 (10.66%)	Migration
19	146 (10.66%)	Cucumber
20	139 (10.15%)	TDD
21	133 (9.71%)	Jenkins
22	132 (9.64%)	Security Cleared
23	128 (9.34%)	Microsoft
23	128 (9.34%)	Defect Management
24	127 (9.27%)	Software Testing
25	126 (9.20%)	WebDriver
26	125 (9.12%)	HP
27	115 (8.39%)	Integration Testing

Test Scripting
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	48 (3.50%)	Confluence
2	33 (2.41%)	SharePoint
3	24 (1.75%)	CMS
3	24 (1.75%)	Tomcat
4	19 (1.39%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	17 (1.24%)	WebLogic
5	17 (1.24%)	WebSphere
6	11 (0.80%)	JBoss
6	11 (0.80%)	SAS
6	11 (0.80%)	Tuxedo
7	9 (0.66%)	GlassFish
7	9 (0.66%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	6 (0.44%)	Apache
8	6 (0.44%)	Documentum
8	6 (0.44%)	Elasticsearch
8	6 (0.44%)	SharePoint 2013
9	4 (0.29%)	Oracle Workflow
10	3 (0.22%)	Apache Solr
10	3 (0.22%)	BizTalk Server
10	3 (0.22%)	IIS

Applications
1	72 (5.26%)	Microsoft Excel
2	59 (4.31%)	Microsoft Office
3	57 (4.16%)	MS Visio
4	33 (2.41%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	10 (0.73%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.15%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.073%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	1 (0.073%)	InVision
7	1 (0.073%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	36 (2.63%)	Oracle EBS
2	23 (1.68%)	Dynamics CRM
3	20 (1.46%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	13 (0.95%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	11 (0.80%)	Oracle Applications
5	11 (0.80%)	SAP FI
6	9 (0.66%)	Loan IQ
6	9 (0.66%)	Maximo
7	8 (0.58%)	Oracle ERP
7	8 (0.58%)	Oracle Financials
8	7 (0.51%)	FLEXCUBE
8	7 (0.51%)	SAP ERP
8	7 (0.51%)	SAP MM
8	7 (0.51%)	Unit4 Business World
9	6 (0.44%)	Dynamics AX
9	6 (0.44%)	Oracle Payables
9	6 (0.44%)	SAP CO
9	6 (0.44%)	SAP FI/CO
9	6 (0.44%)	SAP HR
10	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Receivables

Cloud Services
1	31 (2.26%)	Microsoft Azure
2	15 (1.09%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (0.88%)	GitHub
3	12 (0.88%)	PaaS
3	12 (0.88%)	SaaS
4	9 (0.66%)	OpenDNS
5	6 (0.44%)	Office 365
5	6 (0.44%)	Taleo
6	5 (0.36%)	SuccessFactors
7	4 (0.29%)	Azure Active Directory
7	4 (0.29%)	IaaS
8	3 (0.22%)	Google Analytics
9	2 (0.15%)	Amazon CloudWatch
9	2 (0.15%)	Amazon EC2
9	2 (0.15%)	Amazon ElastiCache
9	2 (0.15%)	Amazon S3
9	2 (0.15%)	Amazon SQS
9	2 (0.15%)	AWS Lambda
9	2 (0.15%)	Boomi
9	2 (0.15%)	CloudFront

Communications & Networking
1	24 (1.75%)	PuTTY
2	23 (1.68%)	WinSCP
3	22 (1.61%)	Wireless
4	20 (1.46%)	Internet
5	14 (1.02%)	DNS
6	11 (0.80%)	Firewall
7	10 (0.73%)	LTE
8	8 (0.58%)	DVB
8	8 (0.58%)	LAN
8	8 (0.58%)	Wi-Fi
9	7 (0.51%)	4G
9	7 (0.51%)	Network Security
9	7 (0.51%)	TCP/IP
10	5 (0.36%)	VPN
10	5 (0.36%)	WAN
11	4 (0.29%)	Bluetooth
11	4 (0.29%)	LDAP
11	4 (0.29%)	Wireshark
12	3 (0.22%)	HTTP
12	3 (0.22%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	64 (4.67%)	SQL Server
2	47 (3.43%)	Data Warehouse
3	38 (2.77%)	Oracle Database
4	32 (2.34%)	Oracle Reports
5	27 (1.97%)	MySQL
6	26 (1.90%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	25 (1.82%)	Relational Database
8	23 (1.68%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	16 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2005
9	16 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2008
9	16 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2012
10	12 (0.88%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	10 (0.73%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	9 (0.66%)	Maltego
13	7 (0.51%)	Oracle BI EE
13	7 (0.51%)	Oracle OWB
14	6 (0.44%)	Big Data
14	6 (0.44%)	Data Mining
14	6 (0.44%)	Oracle Database 12c
14	6 (0.44%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	291 (21.24%)	Selenium
2	182 (13.28%)	JIRA
3	146 (10.66%)	Cucumber
4	133 (9.71%)	Jenkins
5	126 (9.20%)	WebDriver
6	82 (5.99%)	SoapUI
7	70 (5.11%)	Team Foundation Server
8	66 (4.82%)	HP UFT
9	58 (4.23%)	LoadRunner
10	48 (3.50%)	JMeter
11	47 (3.43%)	JUnit
12	43 (3.14%)	SpecFlow
13	41 (2.99%)	Git (software)
14	40 (2.92%)	Visual Studio
15	32 (2.34%)	TeamCity
16	28 (2.04%)	Eclipse
17	25 (1.82%)	Oracle APEX
17	25 (1.82%)	RSpec
18	23 (1.68%)	Toad
19	22 (1.61%)	Hudson

General
1	311 (22.70%)	Finance
2	185 (13.50%)	Banking
3	98 (7.15%)	Retail
4	62 (4.53%)	Retail Banking
5	47 (3.43%)	Telecoms
6	33 (2.41%)	Marketing
7	26 (1.90%)	Manufacturing
8	21 (1.53%)	Electronics
9	20 (1.46%)	Games
10	19 (1.39%)	Investment Banking
11	18 (1.31%)	Front Office
12	17 (1.24%)	Legal
13	15 (1.09%)	Back Office
14	13 (0.95%)	Law
15	11 (0.80%)	Financial Institution
15	11 (0.80%)	Pharmaceutical
16	9 (0.66%)	Billing
16	9 (0.66%)	Publishing
17	8 (0.58%)	Spanish Language
18	7 (0.51%)	Wholesale Banking

Job Titles
1	590 (43.07%)	Analyst
2	390 (28.47%)	Test Analyst
3	269 (19.64%)	Tester
4	149 (10.88%)	Business Analyst
5	127 (9.27%)	Developer
6	105 (7.66%)	Test Manager
7	97 (7.08%)	Automation Tester
8	87 (6.35%)	Test Engineer
9	86 (6.28%)	Test Leader
10	56 (4.09%)	Automation Test Analyst
11	55 (4.01%)	Banking Analyst
12	54 (3.94%)	Consultant
13	52 (3.80%)	QA Engineer
14	48 (3.50%)	Selenium Tester
15	42 (3.07%)	Selenium Automation Tester
16	38 (2.77%)	Senior Analyst
17	31 (2.26%)	Java Developer
18	30 (2.19%)	QA Tester
19	28 (2.04%)	Financial Analyst
20	27 (1.97%)	Software Tester

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	96 (7.01%)	.NET
2	83 (6.06%)	Web Services
3	77 (5.62%)	SOAP
4	74 (5.40%)	XML
5	51 (3.72%)	REST
6	46 (3.36%)	HTML
7	41 (2.99%)	Gherkin
8	32 (2.34%)	Spring
9	31 (2.26%)	CSS
10	29 (2.12%)	JSON
11	21 (1.53%)	AngularJS
12	18 (1.31%)	React
12	18 (1.31%)	RESTful
13	16 (1.17%)	Oracle Fusion
14	15 (1.09%)	HTML5
14	15 (1.09%)	NumPy
14	15 (1.09%)	OpenCV
14	15 (1.09%)	Pandas
14	15 (1.09%)	PyQt
14	15 (1.09%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	104 (7.59%)	Analytical Skills
2	44 (3.21%)	Management Information System
3	33 (2.41%)	Computer Science
3	33 (2.41%)	User Experience
4	29 (2.12%)	Mobile App
5	25 (1.82%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
5	25 (1.82%)	STB
6	14 (1.02%)	Data Centre
6	14 (1.02%)	Smartphone
7	12 (0.88%)	Derivative
7	12 (0.88%)	Equities
8	11 (0.80%)	Algorithms
8	11 (0.80%)	Client/Server
8	11 (0.80%)	Credit Risk
8	11 (0.80%)	Greenfield Project
9	10 (0.73%)	IPTV
10	9 (0.66%)	Data Structures
10	9 (0.66%)	Digital TV
10	9 (0.66%)	NHS
11	8 (0.58%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	91 (6.64%)	Unix
2	86 (6.28%)	Windows
3	78 (5.69%)	Linux
4	22 (1.61%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	21 (1.53%)	Windows Server 2012
6	20 (1.46%)	Windows Server
7	11 (0.80%)	Android
7	11 (0.80%)	Apple iOS
7	11 (0.80%)	Windows Server 2008
8	6 (0.44%)	Windows Vista
9	4 (0.29%)	Solaris
9	4 (0.29%)	VMS
10	3 (0.22%)	AIX
10	3 (0.22%)	Ubuntu
10	3 (0.22%)	Windows 7
10	3 (0.22%)	Windows 8
10	3 (0.22%)	Windows Server 2003
11	2 (0.15%)	HPUX
11	2 (0.15%)	Windows Embedded Compact
12	1 (0.073%)	OpenVMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	520 (37.96%)	Test Automation
2	482 (35.18%)	Agile Software Development
3	335 (24.45%)	User Acceptance Testing
4	261 (19.05%)	Test Strategy
5	199 (14.53%)	Scenario Testing
6	185 (13.50%)	Scrum
7	166 (12.12%)	Regression Testing
8	153 (11.17%)	Functional Testing
9	151 (11.02%)	BDD
10	146 (10.66%)	Migration
11	139 (10.15%)	TDD
12	128 (9.34%)	Defect Management
13	127 (9.27%)	Software Testing
14	115 (8.39%)	Integration Testing
15	103 (7.52%)	Stakeholder Management
15	103 (7.52%)	User Stories
16	98 (7.15%)	Non-Functional Testing
17	94 (6.86%)	Test Planning
18	93 (6.79%)	Test Management
19	92 (6.72%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	284 (20.73%)	SQL
2	239 (17.45%)	Java
3	102 (7.45%)	Python
4	92 (6.72%)	C#
5	64 (4.67%)	JavaScript
6	38 (2.77%)	Ruby
7	36 (2.63%)	PL/SQL
8	34 (2.48%)	PHP
8	34 (2.48%)	Scala
9	27 (1.97%)	C++
10	25 (1.82%)	F#
11	21 (1.53%)	Bash Shell
12	20 (1.46%)	VBScript
13	17 (1.24%)	Shell Script
13	17 (1.24%)	VBA
14	16 (1.17%)	PowerShell
15	15 (1.09%)	Tcl
15	15 (1.09%)	VB
16	14 (1.02%)	C
16	14 (1.02%)	Groovy

Qualifications
1	174 (12.70%)	ISEB
2	156 (11.39%)	ISTQB
3	132 (9.64%)	Security Cleared
4	109 (7.96%)	Degree
5	97 (7.08%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	87 (6.35%)	SC Cleared
7	18 (1.31%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	17 (1.24%)	BPSS Clearance
9	15 (1.09%)	DV Cleared
10	12 (0.88%)	Computer Science Degree
11	11 (0.80%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification
12	7 (0.51%)	Numerate Degree
13	6 (0.44%)	Microsoft Certification
14	4 (0.29%)	BC Cleared
15	3 (0.22%)	CBAP
15	3 (0.22%)	IIBA
16	2 (0.15%)	Cisco Certification
16	2 (0.15%)	HNC
16	2 (0.15%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
16	2 (0.15%)	MBA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	218 (15.91%)	QA
2	31 (2.26%)	MiFID
3	18 (1.31%)	Data Quality
4	14 (1.02%)	WCAG
5	12 (0.88%)	SLA
6	11 (0.80%)	EMIR
7	9 (0.66%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	8 (0.58%)	IFRS
9	7 (0.51%)	PMO
10	6 (0.44%)	Basel II
10	6 (0.44%)	IFRS 9
11	4 (0.29%)	FATCA
11	4 (0.29%)	Solvency II
12	2 (0.15%)	Dodd-Frank
12	2 (0.15%)	ISO 20022
12	2 (0.15%)	SEPA
13	1 (0.073%)	ARP4754
13	1 (0.073%)	COREP
13	1 (0.073%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	24 (1.75%)	Active Directory
2	16 (1.17%)	vSphere
3	15 (1.09%)	Virtual Machines
4	12 (0.88%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	8 (0.58%)	Docker
6	6 (0.44%)	Firmware
6	6 (0.44%)	Oracle RAC
7	3 (0.22%)	Terminal Services
7	3 (0.22%)	VMware Workstation
8	2 (0.15%)	LXC
9	1 (0.073%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	89 (6.50%)	HP Quality Center
2	16 (1.17%)	vRealize
3	12 (0.88%)	Control-M
4	9 (0.66%)	OpenView Configuration Management
5	8 (0.58%)	Opscode Chef
5	8 (0.58%)	Puppet
5	8 (0.58%)	Tivoli
6	6 (0.44%)	Ansible
6	6 (0.44%)	Tivoli Monitoring
7	5 (0.36%)	Kibana
8	4 (0.29%)	Ganglia
8	4 (0.29%)	nmon
9	3 (0.22%)	Cisco IPCC
9	3 (0.22%)	Consul
9	3 (0.22%)	Grafana
10	2 (0.15%)	logstash
10	2 (0.15%)	Perfmon
10	2 (0.15%)	SCCM
10	2 (0.15%)	SCOM
10	2 (0.15%)	SELinux

Vendors
1	169 (12.34%)	Oracle
2	128 (9.34%)	Microsoft
3	125 (9.12%)	HP
4	93 (6.79%)	SAP
5	34 (2.48%)	VMware
6	32 (2.34%)	IBM
7	22 (1.61%)	Red Hat
8	17 (1.24%)	Adobe
9	15 (1.09%)	Salesforce.com
10	14 (1.02%)	Informatica
11	13 (0.95%)	Sybase
12	12 (0.88%)	hybris
12	12 (0.88%)	Hyperion
13	8 (0.58%)	Citrix
13	8 (0.58%)	Remedy
14	7 (0.51%)	Google
14	7 (0.51%)	McAfee
14	7 (0.51%)	Motorola
14	7 (0.51%)	Workday
15	6 (0.44%)	Bloomberg