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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 202 236
Rank change year-on-year -92 +34 -28
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 387 362 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.31% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.44% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 252 232
10th Percentile £315 £268 £306
25th Percentile £379 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £445 £463
% change year-on-year +3.93% -3.78% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 3
10th Percentile £25.38 £18.14 £39.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £31.55 £43.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -44.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £56.25
90th Percentile - £87.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% +33.33% -58.33%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -85 146 £500 - 46
Midlands -30 66 £368 +8.24% 12
South East -57 65 £475 +5.56% 27
West Midlands -32 53 £362 +53.02% 8
North of England -56 46 £450 +5.88% 16
South West -38 30 £525 +1.20% 11
East of England -3 28 £74 -80.27% 7
North West -44 25 £432 +1.71% 9
Yorkshire -34 17 £425 +1.19% 2
East Midlands -13 13 £638 +77.08% 4
North East -37 4 £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 (11.89%) Confluence
2 13 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.52%) SAS
5 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (7.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.58%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.81%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.29%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.03%) Aladdin
6 4 (1.03%) HFM
6 4 (1.03%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (1.03%) SAP GTS
6 4 (1.03%) SAP SD
6 4 (1.03%) SAP VC
7 3 (0.78%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.78%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.78%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.16%) Azure
2 54 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (13.70%) AWS
4 21 (5.43%) GitHub
5 11 (2.84%) GCP
5 11 (2.84%) OCI
5 11 (2.84%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (1.81%) SaaS
8 6 (1.55%) Figma
8 6 (1.55%) Pendo
8 6 (1.55%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.03%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.78%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.81%) HTTP
2 6 (1.55%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.29%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.29%) Wireless
4 4 (1.03%) DNS
4 4 (1.03%) Network Security
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) WAN
6 2 (0.52%) Firewall
6 2 (0.52%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.52%) SAN
6 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.26%) FlexRay
7 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.26%) WAAS
7 1 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
2 38 (9.82%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.84%) Power BI
4 7 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.03%) Metadata
6 4 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.03%) Tableau
7 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.52%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.52%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 130 (33.59%) JIRA
2 58 (14.99%) Postman
3 43 (11.11%) Selenium
4 37 (9.56%) Git
4 37 (9.56%) Zephyr
5 26 (6.72%) JMeter
6 23 (5.94%) Jenkins
7 19 (4.91%) Cucumber
8 18 (4.65%) LoadRunner
9 13 (3.36%) Gatling
9 13 (3.36%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.84%) GitLab
11 10 (2.58%) Cypress.io
12 9 (2.33%) NeoLoad
13 8 (2.07%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.07%) Rational DOORS
13 8 (2.07%) WebDriver
14 7 (1.81%) SoapUI
14 7 (1.81%) SpecFlow
15 5 (1.29%) HP UFT
General
1 163 (42.12%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (20.16%) Finance
3 55 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.27%) Banking
5 15 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.84%) Legal
7 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.33%) Automotive
9 7 (1.81%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.55%) Military
11 5 (1.29%) Retail
12 4 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.78%) Billing
13 3 (0.78%) Electronics
13 3 (0.78%) Local Government
13 3 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (20.16%) Analyst
2 71 (18.35%) Tester
3 49 (12.66%) Test Engineer
4 47 (12.14%) Lead
5 45 (11.63%) Consultant
6 37 (9.56%) Test Analyst
7 26 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 24 (6.20%) Senior
9 23 (5.94%) QA Tester
9 23 (5.94%) Test Manager
10 21 (5.43%) Test Leader
11 17 (4.39%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.13%) Test Automation Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) QA Engineer
14 13 (3.36%) Principal Software Engineer
15 11 (2.84%) Performance Tester
16 10 (2.58%) Automation Tester
16 10 (2.58%) Developer
16 10 (2.58%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.98%) Playwright
2 15 (3.88%) REST
3 14 (3.62%) .NET
4 11 (2.84%) SOAP
5 10 (2.58%) Web Services
6 9 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (2.33%) React
7 8 (2.07%) Middleware
7 8 (2.07%) XML
8 7 (1.81%) HTML
8 7 (1.81%) RESTful
9 6 (1.55%) Kafka
10 5 (1.29%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (1.29%) Terraform
11 4 (1.03%) ADO
11 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.03%) Swagger
12 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.78%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.78%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.43%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.81%) CMDB
9 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.29%) FPGA
10 5 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.29%) NHS
10 5 (1.29%) PACS
10 5 (1.29%) PCIe
10 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.49%) Windows
2 19 (4.91%) Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Android
3 5 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.29%) Unix
4 4 (1.03%) VMS
4 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (42.64%) Test Automation
2 150 (38.76%) Agile
3 122 (31.52%) User Acceptance Testing
4 96 (24.81%) Validation
5 92 (23.77%) Scenario Testing
6 91 (23.51%) End-to-End Testing
6 91 (23.51%) Migration
7 75 (19.38%) DevOps
8 71 (18.35%) Data Migration
9 70 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (18.09%) Test Management
10 67 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 66 (17.05%) Software Testing
12 63 (16.28%) CI/CD
12 63 (16.28%) Test Strategy
13 62 (16.02%) Defect Management
14 61 (15.76%) Integration Testing
15 59 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (14.47%) Manual Testing
17 49 (12.66%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.41%) SQL
2 42 (10.85%) Python
3 38 (9.82%) Java
4 26 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.13%) C#
6 10 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.07%) ABAP
8 6 (1.55%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.29%) C
10 4 (1.03%) C++
11 3 (0.78%) Groovy
11 3 (0.78%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.78%) Ruby
11 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.78%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (33.59%) Security Cleared
2 90 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.40%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.75%) Degree
5 29 (7.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.81%) ACCA
9 7 (1.81%) CIMA
10 6 (1.55%) ISEB
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.26%) CCNA
12 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.26%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (29.72%) QA
2 25 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.07%) WCAG
5 7 (1.81%) GRC
5 7 (1.81%) NCSC
6 6 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.29%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.03%) IFRS
9 3 (0.78%) DICOM
9 3 (0.78%) HL7
9 3 (0.78%) SLA
10 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.52%) NIST
10 2 (0.52%) PMO
10 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 2 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.26%) GDPR
11 1 (0.26%) GMP
System Software
1 12 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.55%) Docker
2 6 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.03%) vSphere
4 2 (0.52%) SRDF
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.07%) Grafana
3 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.29%) Ansible
5 3 (0.78%) Control-M
5 3 (0.78%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.78%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (19.12%) Oracle
2 54 (13.95%) SAP
3 34 (8.79%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.33%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.55%) Databricks
8 6 (1.55%) HP
8 6 (1.55%) Talend
8 6 (1.55%) VMware
8 6 (1.55%) Workday
9 5 (1.29%) Conga
9 5 (1.29%) Denodo
9 5 (1.29%) GoCardless
9 5 (1.29%) Google
9 5 (1.29%) Sage
10 4 (1.03%) Ariba
10 4 (1.03%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.03%) Tagetik