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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 208 239
Rank change year-on-year -73 +31 -27
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 401 350 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.27% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.40% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 243 236
10th Percentile £313 £263 £306
25th Percentile £368 £353 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £627
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 4
10th Percentile £25.08 £18.48 £40.38
25th Percentile £39.38 £35.00 £46.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -38.89%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £65.63
90th Percentile - £87.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% +25.71% -51.39%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -74 145 £500 - 30
South East -53 70 £475 +13.43% 25
Midlands -28 69 £375 +10.29% 15
West Midlands -43 57 £363 +54.47% 10
North of England -68 51 £429 +0.82% 12
East of England +3 32 £74 -80.27% 7
South West -38 29 £525 -2.33% 15
North West -63 25 £402 -5.41% 5
Yorkshire -28 21 £429 +2.02% 3
East Midlands -10 12 £638 +82.14% 5
North East -37 5 £453 -1.52% 5
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 46 (11.47%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.75%) SAS
4 3 (0.75%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 31 (7.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.49%) SAP Payroll
3 8 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (1.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.25%) Aladdin
6 5 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (1.25%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.00%) HFM
7 4 (1.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (1.00%) SAP GTS
7 4 (1.00%) SAP SD
7 4 (1.00%) SAP VC
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.75%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.75%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (19.45%) Azure
2 56 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (10.97%) AWS
4 22 (5.49%) GitHub
5 16 (3.99%) OCI
6 12 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.74%) GCP
8 10 (2.49%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.25%) Figma
10 5 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.25%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.25%) Pendo
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.00%) Lucidchart
11 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.00%) SaaS
11 4 (1.00%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.25%) Wireless
3 4 (1.00%) DNS
3 4 (1.00%) Network Security
4 3 (0.75%) LAN
4 3 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.50%) BGP
5 2 (0.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.50%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.50%) MPLS
5 2 (0.50%) OSPF
5 2 (0.50%) SAN
5 2 (0.50%) VLAN
5 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.25%) WAAS
6 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.98%) Oracle Reports
2 30 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.99%) Power BI
4 5 (1.25%) Metadata
4 5 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.75%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 2 (0.50%) Base SAS
7 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.25%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 133 (33.17%) JIRA
2 47 (11.72%) Postman
3 43 (10.72%) Selenium
4 33 (8.23%) Git
5 31 (7.73%) Jenkins
5 31 (7.73%) Zephyr
6 23 (5.74%) Cucumber
7 22 (5.49%) JMeter
8 15 (3.74%) GitLab
8 15 (3.74%) REST Assured
9 14 (3.49%) LoadRunner
10 12 (2.99%) JUnit
11 11 (2.74%) Gatling
12 9 (2.24%) Cypress.io
13 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.00%) SpecFlow
14 7 (1.75%) NeoLoad
14 7 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
14 7 (1.75%) WebDriver
15 4 (1.00%) SoapUI
General
1 167 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.70%) Finance
3 80 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.23%) Banking
6 18 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.74%) Legal
8 11 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.24%) Automotive
10 7 (1.75%) General Ledger
10 7 (1.75%) Retail
11 6 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.50%) Military
12 4 (1.00%) Billing
12 4 (1.00%) Marketing
12 4 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.75%) Electronics
13 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (22.69%) Analyst
2 72 (17.96%) Tester
3 47 (11.72%) Lead
4 46 (11.47%) Consultant
4 46 (11.47%) Test Engineer
5 43 (10.72%) Test Analyst
6 30 (7.48%) Business Analyst
7 24 (5.99%) Test Leader
8 21 (5.24%) QA Tester
8 21 (5.24%) Senior
9 19 (4.74%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.74%) Test Manager
10 16 (3.99%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (3.74%) Principal Software Engineer
11 15 (3.74%) Test Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.24%) QA Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) Automation Tester
13 11 (2.74%) Developer
13 11 (2.74%) QA Analyst
14 10 (2.49%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.48%) Playwright
2 18 (4.49%) REST
3 11 (2.74%) React
4 10 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (2.49%) pytest
5 9 (2.24%) .NET
5 9 (2.24%) SOAP
6 7 (1.75%) Kafka
6 7 (1.75%) RESTful
7 6 (1.50%) ADO
7 6 (1.50%) Web Services
8 5 (1.25%) HTML
8 5 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.25%) XML
9 4 (1.00%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.00%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.00%) Swagger
10 3 (0.75%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.75%) Middleware
10 3 (0.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.99%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) CMDB
8 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) FPGA
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) PACS
10 5 (1.25%) PCIe
10 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.00%) NHS
11 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.99%) Windows
2 16 (3.99%) Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Android
3 5 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.00%) VMS
4 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) AIX
6 2 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.50%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (41.40%) Test Automation
2 153 (38.15%) Agile
3 124 (30.92%) User Acceptance Testing
4 99 (24.69%) Validation
5 85 (21.20%) Migration
6 83 (20.70%) End-to-End Testing
7 81 (20.20%) DevOps
8 79 (19.70%) Scenario Testing
9 75 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (16.96%) Data Migration
12 66 (16.46%) CI/CD
13 65 (16.21%) Test Strategy
14 64 (15.96%) Software Testing
15 63 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (15.71%) Defect Management
16 61 (15.21%) Test Management
17 59 (14.71%) Integration Testing
18 54 (13.47%) Manual Testing
19 52 (12.97%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.21%) SQL
2 47 (11.72%) Python
3 41 (10.22%) Java
4 26 (6.48%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.74%) C#
6 12 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.00%) ABAP
8 7 (1.75%) C++
9 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.25%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.25%) C
11 3 (0.75%) Groovy
11 3 (0.75%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.75%) Ruby
11 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.50%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Korn
13 1 (0.25%) PeopleCode
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 84 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.72%) ISTQB
4 29 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.99%) Degree
6 15 (3.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.75%) ACCA
8 7 (1.75%) CIMA
8 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.25%) ISEB
10 2 (0.50%) CCNA
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (25.94%) QA
2 26 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.24%) NCSC
5 7 (1.75%) GRC
5 7 (1.75%) WCAG
6 5 (1.25%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) IFRS
8 3 (0.75%) DICOM
8 3 (0.75%) HL7
9 2 (0.50%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) GDPR
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.50%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.00%) vSphere
4 2 (0.50%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 21 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.00%) Grafana
3 6 (1.50%) HP ALM
3 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.25%) Terraform
5 4 (1.00%) Ansible
5 4 (1.00%) Kibana
6 3 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (18.45%) Oracle
2 54 (13.47%) SAP
3 27 (6.73%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.49%) Workday
7 9 (2.24%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.24%) HP
8 8 (2.00%) Databricks
9 6 (1.50%) Talend
9 6 (1.50%) VMware
10 5 (1.25%) Conga
10 5 (1.25%) Denodo
10 5 (1.25%) GoCardless
10 5 (1.25%) Google
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco
11 4 (1.00%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.00%) Sage
11 4 (1.00%) Tagetik