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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 207 237
Rank change year-on-year -98 +30 -51
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 391 373 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.34% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.48% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 279 219
10th Percentile £275 £293 £306
25th Percentile £373 £368 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -1.84% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £575
90th Percentile £608 £638 £627
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 2
10th Percentile £39.38 £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 £66.57 £40.00 £31.55
% change year-on-year +66.42% +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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -113 148 £500 - 117
South East -61 63 £480 +1.05% 51
Midlands -13 59 £391 +8.60% 32
West Midlands -15 50 £391 +13.74% 21
North of England -76 49 £402 +0.50% 30
East of England -1 33 £74 -81.21% 10
South West -31 30 £525 -2.55% 16
North West -54 27 £398 -0.63% 14
Yorkshire -33 19 £404 -3.93% 10
East Midlands -12 8 £250 -30.56% 11
North East -38 3 £453 +25.83% 6
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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.02%) SAS
3 4 (1.02%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 35 (8.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.32%) SAP Payroll
3 6 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.53%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.28%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (1.02%) HFM
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.02%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.02%) SAP GTS
5 4 (1.02%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.02%) SAP VC
6 3 (0.77%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.77%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.77%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (20.72%) Azure
2 54 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (11.25%) AWS
4 25 (6.39%) GitHub
5 15 (3.84%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.81%) GCP
7 8 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (1.79%) SaaS
8 7 (1.79%) Tricentis Tosca
9 6 (1.53%) Figma
9 6 (1.53%) Pendo
10 5 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.28%) OCI
10 5 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.02%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.05%) Wireless
2 7 (1.79%) Broadband
2 7 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.28%) 4G
3 5 (1.28%) 5G
3 5 (1.28%) DNS
3 5 (1.28%) HTTP
3 5 (1.28%) IPv4
3 5 (1.28%) IPv6
3 5 (1.28%) xDSL
4 4 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.02%) PPP
4 4 (1.02%) UPnP
5 3 (0.77%) LAN
5 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.77%) VoIP
5 3 (0.77%) WAN
6 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.51%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (7.42%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (3.84%) Power BI
4 11 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.28%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.28%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.02%) Tableau
7 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.77%) Metadata
7 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.51%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.51%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 129 (32.99%) JIRA
2 58 (14.83%) Selenium
3 50 (12.79%) Postman
4 40 (10.23%) Git
5 32 (8.18%) Jenkins
5 32 (8.18%) JMeter
6 31 (7.93%) Zephyr
7 28 (7.16%) Cucumber
8 22 (5.63%) GitLab
9 19 (4.86%) LoadRunner
10 16 (4.09%) Gatling
10 16 (4.09%) REST Assured
11 14 (3.58%) Cypress.io
12 12 (3.07%) JUnit
13 10 (2.56%) TestNG
14 9 (2.30%) NeoLoad
14 9 (2.30%) SoapUI
15 8 (2.05%) Bitbucket
15 8 (2.05%) TestRail
16 7 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 162 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.97%) Finance
3 77 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.67%) Banking
6 12 (3.07%) Legal
6 12 (3.07%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.30%) Automotive
8 9 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.05%) Military
10 7 (1.79%) Billing
10 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.79%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.53%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.77%) Back Office
13 3 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (23.02%) Analyst
2 66 (16.88%) Test Engineer
3 57 (14.58%) Tester
4 47 (12.02%) Consultant
5 45 (11.51%) Test Analyst
6 41 (10.49%) Lead
7 34 (8.70%) Senior
8 33 (8.44%) Business Analyst
9 20 (5.12%) Test Leader
10 18 (4.60%) SAP Analyst
10 18 (4.60%) Test Manager
11 17 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
12 16 (4.09%) QA Tester
12 16 (4.09%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.84%) QA Engineer
14 14 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.32%) Principal Software Engineer
16 12 (3.07%) Developer
17 11 (2.81%) SAP Consultant
17 11 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.70%) Playwright
2 16 (4.09%) .NET
2 16 (4.09%) REST
3 14 (3.58%) RESTful
4 13 (3.32%) SOAP
5 12 (3.07%) HTML
6 11 (2.81%) XML
7 10 (2.56%) React
7 10 (2.56%) Web Services
8 8 (2.05%) Middleware
8 8 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.79%) Kafka
10 6 (1.53%) Node.js
11 5 (1.28%) ADO
11 5 (1.28%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.28%) Terraform
12 4 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (1.02%) XBRL
13 3 (0.77%) SailPoint
13 3 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.86%) Embedded Systems
3 14 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.79%) CMDB
8 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.53%) NHS
10 5 (1.28%) Life Science
11 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.02%) FMCG
11 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.02%) Wiki
12 3 (0.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.91%) Windows
2 23 (5.88%) Linux
3 9 (2.30%) VMS
4 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.02%) Android
6 3 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.77%) Unix
7 2 (0.51%) AIX
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.01%) Test Automation
2 166 (42.46%) Agile
3 132 (33.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 94 (24.04%) Scenario Testing
5 91 (23.27%) Validation
6 88 (22.51%) End-to-End Testing
7 83 (21.23%) Migration
8 81 (20.72%) Software Testing
9 79 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 78 (19.95%) CI/CD
10 78 (19.95%) Defect Management
11 76 (19.44%) DevOps
11 76 (19.44%) Test Management
12 71 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (17.65%) Test Strategy
14 64 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (16.37%) Data Migration
15 58 (14.83%) Integration Testing
15 58 (14.83%) Manual Testing
16 57 (14.58%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (19.69%) SQL
2 55 (14.07%) Java
3 46 (11.76%) Python
4 34 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.84%) C#
6 14 (3.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.30%) ABAP
8 7 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.28%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.02%) C++
10 4 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.77%) C
11 3 (0.77%) Groovy
11 3 (0.77%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.51%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.51%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) PeopleCode
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 98 (25.06%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.25%) ISTQB
4 34 (8.70%) Degree
4 34 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.79%) ACCA
8 7 (1.79%) CIMA
8 7 (1.79%) ISEB
9 2 (0.51%) CBAP
9 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) MOS
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (31.20%) QA
2 26 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 22 (5.63%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.05%) WCAG
5 7 (1.79%) NCSC
6 5 (1.28%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.02%) IFRS
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.02%) SEPA
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) NIST
8 2 (0.51%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) DICOM
9 1 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.26%) GMP
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (4.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.02%) vSphere
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.56%) Grafana
3 5 (1.28%) HP ALM
4 4 (1.02%) Control-M
4 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.77%) Ansible
5 3 (0.77%) Kibana
6 2 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.51%) 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 61 (15.60%) SAP
2 59 (15.09%) Oracle
3 39 (9.97%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.56%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.05%) Databricks
9 6 (1.53%) Ariba
9 6 (1.53%) Splunk
10 5 (1.28%) Conga
10 5 (1.28%) GoCardless
10 5 (1.28%) HP
10 5 (1.28%) IBM
10 5 (1.28%) Talend
11 4 (1.02%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.02%) Informatica
11 4 (1.02%) Tagetik
11 4 (1.02%) VMware
11 4 (1.02%) webMethods