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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 217 232
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 413 326 375
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.26% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.38% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 226 262
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -6.00%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £634 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £463 £430 £464
% change year-on-year +7.56% -7.28% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 12
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.16 £36.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £38.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +62.16% -39.94%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - £87.50 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -6.67% +62.16% -39.94%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -66 147 £475 -1.76% 27
South East -43 66 £491 +20.86% 25
Midlands -36 61 £362 +3.29% 15
North of England -61 60 £450 - 10
West Midlands -49 49 £360 +53.19% 6
South West -17 40 £538 - 10
East of England -1 32 £212 -45.29% 7
Yorkshire -25 30 £452 +7.50% 6
North West -59 25 £400 -11.11% 4
East Midlands -14 12 £638 +72.06% 9
North East -28 5 £453 -1.52%
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 40 (9.69%) Confluence
2 10 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.69%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (7.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.66%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.69%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.69%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.97%) HFM
6 4 (0.97%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (0.97%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.97%) SAP GTS
6 4 (0.97%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.97%) SAP VC
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.55%) Azure
2 69 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (10.65%) AWS
4 19 (4.60%) OCI
5 18 (4.36%) GitHub
6 12 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (2.42%) GCP
7 10 (2.42%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.21%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.21%) SaaS
11 4 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.97%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) HTTP
2 5 (1.21%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.21%) Firewall
2 5 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.21%) Wireless
3 4 (0.97%) Network Security
4 3 (0.73%) DNS
4 3 (0.73%) LAN
4 3 (0.73%) WAN
5 2 (0.48%) BGP
5 2 (0.48%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.48%) MPLS
5 2 (0.48%) OSPF
5 2 (0.48%) SAN
5 2 (0.48%) VLAN
5 2 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) WAAS
6 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.72%) Oracle Reports
2 30 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.42%) Power BI
4 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.48%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.48%) Metadata
8 2 (0.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.24%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 137 (33.17%) JIRA
2 59 (14.29%) Postman
3 47 (11.38%) Selenium
4 38 (9.20%) Jenkins
5 32 (7.75%) Git
6 29 (7.02%) Zephyr
7 25 (6.05%) Cucumber
8 21 (5.08%) REST Assured
9 20 (4.84%) GitLab
10 19 (4.60%) JMeter
11 12 (2.91%) JUnit
11 12 (2.91%) LoadRunner
11 12 (2.91%) WebDriver
12 11 (2.66%) Cypress.io
13 10 (2.42%) Gatling
13 10 (2.42%) SpecFlow
14 8 (1.94%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
16 6 (1.45%) NeoLoad
17 5 (1.21%) TestRail
General
1 159 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.85%) Finance
3 77 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.99%) Banking
6 23 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.42%) Legal
8 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.94%) Automotive
11 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.45%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.45%) Military
13 5 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.21%) Retail
14 4 (0.97%) Billing
14 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (24.21%) Analyst
2 77 (18.64%) Tester
3 49 (11.86%) Test Analyst
4 45 (10.90%) Test Engineer
5 44 (10.65%) Lead
6 36 (8.72%) Consultant
7 30 (7.26%) Business Analyst
8 25 (6.05%) Test Leader
9 22 (5.33%) QA Tester
9 22 (5.33%) Senior
10 21 (5.08%) Test Manager
11 18 (4.36%) Automation Tester
11 18 (4.36%) Test Automation Engineer
12 16 (3.87%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.63%) QA Engineer
14 14 (3.39%) Developer
15 12 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (2.91%) Principal Software Engineer
15 12 (2.91%) Project Officer
15 12 (2.91%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.23%) Playwright
2 25 (6.05%) REST
3 14 (3.39%) .NET
4 12 (2.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.66%) React
6 10 (2.42%) Kafka
6 10 (2.42%) pytest
7 8 (1.94%) HTML
8 7 (1.69%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.69%) ADO
8 7 (1.69%) Middleware
8 7 (1.69%) SailPoint
9 6 (1.45%) SOAP
10 5 (1.21%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.21%) CSS
10 5 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.97%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.97%) Swagger
11 4 (0.97%) Web Services
12 3 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.30%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.45%) CMDB
9 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.21%) FPGA
10 5 (1.21%) PACS
10 5 (1.21%) PCIe
10 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.21%) Tandem
11 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.60%) Windows
2 15 (3.63%) Linux
3 6 (1.45%) Android
4 5 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.97%) VMS
6 2 (0.48%) AIX
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (41.89%) Test Automation
2 159 (38.50%) Agile
3 129 (31.23%) User Acceptance Testing
4 96 (23.24%) Validation
5 93 (22.52%) DevOps
6 88 (21.31%) Scenario Testing
7 86 (20.82%) Migration
8 79 (19.13%) End-to-End Testing
9 77 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (17.92%) CI/CD
11 72 (17.43%) Test Management
12 69 (16.71%) Data Migration
12 69 (16.71%) Software Testing
13 66 (15.98%) Test Strategy
14 65 (15.74%) Integration Testing
14 65 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (13.80%) Defect Management
17 53 (12.83%) Manual Testing
18 52 (12.59%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.98%) SQL
2 53 (12.83%) Python
3 49 (11.86%) Java
4 29 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.78%) C#
6 25 (6.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.94%) ABAP
8 6 (1.45%) C++
8 6 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.21%) C
9 5 (1.21%) Scala
10 3 (0.73%) Cypher
10 3 (0.73%) Groovy
10 3 (0.73%) Ruby
10 3 (0.73%) Rust
11 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.48%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 129 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.38%) ISTQB
4 36 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.54%) Degree
6 13 (3.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.97%) ACCA
9 4 (0.97%) CIMA
10 3 (0.73%) ISEB
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.48%) CCNA
11 2 (0.48%) CCNP
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (29.78%) QA
2 21 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.18%) NCSC
5 7 (1.69%) GRC
6 6 (1.45%) SLA
7 5 (1.21%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.97%) IFRS
9 3 (0.73%) DICOM
9 3 (0.73%) HL7
9 3 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GDPR
11 1 (0.24%) GMP
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) SRDF
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.18%) HP ALM
3 7 (1.69%) Grafana
3 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.97%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
5 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.73%) Kiali
7 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.48%) Puppet
7 2 (0.48%) Terraform
8 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (18.16%) Oracle
2 48 (11.62%) SAP
3 32 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.15%) Workday
7 12 (2.91%) HP
8 8 (1.94%) Databricks
9 6 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.45%) Google
9 6 (1.45%) Talend
10 5 (1.21%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.21%) Conga
10 5 (1.21%) Denodo
10 5 (1.21%) GoCardless
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco
11 4 (0.97%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.97%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.97%) Sage
11 4 (0.97%) Tagetik