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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 243 199
Rank change year-on-year +18 -44 +95
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 406 266 443
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.02% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.14% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 165 294
10th Percentile £313 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £568
90th Percentile £636 £617 £664
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 39
10th Percentile £33.62 - £41.25
25th Percentile £65.75 - £76.53
Median hourly rate £67.50 £86.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% +1.18% +31.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £86.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -21.51% +1.18% +31.02%

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 29,880 23,401 33,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.79% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 14,489 22,006
10th Percentile £309 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,872 735 1,965
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.62 £13.35
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
% change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +23 179 £450 -5.26% 16
North of England -35 65 £400 +10.34% 12
Midlands -48 45 £475 +18.75% 14
South East -27 44 £467 +9.88% 24
South West +18 38 £538 +3.86% 9
Yorkshire -36 37 £468 +13.45% 3
West Midlands -40 36 £477 +18.88% 9
East of England -9 24 £400 +12.28% 9
North West -40 24 £398 +11.97% 8
East Midlands -31 9 £360 -7.93% 5
North East -10 4 £300 -17.24% 1
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 23 (5.67%) Confluence
2 13 (3.20%) SAS
3 6 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 22 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.25%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.96%) Aladdin
3 9 (2.22%) Oracle Assets
3 9 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (1.97%) Loan IQ
4 8 (1.97%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.74%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.74%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.74%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.74%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.49%) Algo Collateral
8 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.49%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.92%) Azure
2 64 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (8.13%) AWS
4 20 (4.93%) GCP
5 18 (4.43%) OpenShift
6 16 (3.94%) GitHub
7 13 (3.20%) OCI
7 13 (3.20%) Snowflake
8 12 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.46%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (2.46%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.72%) SaaS
12 6 (1.48%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.48%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.23%) Sentry
14 3 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.94%) Firewall
2 6 (1.48%) HTTP
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
4 4 (0.99%) BGP
4 4 (0.99%) DHCP
4 4 (0.99%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.99%) MPLS
4 4 (0.99%) OSPF
4 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.99%) VLAN
4 4 (0.99%) VPN
5 3 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.49%) FTP
6 2 (0.49%) Multicast
6 2 (0.49%) WAAS
6 2 (0.49%) WAN
6 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.25%) VoIP
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.71%) BigQuery
3 10 (2.46%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.97%) MySQL
4 8 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.72%) Big Data
5 7 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.48%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.48%) Power BI
6 6 (1.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (25.62%) JIRA
2 76 (18.72%) Selenium
3 61 (15.02%) Postman
4 49 (12.07%) Jenkins
5 37 (9.11%) GitLab
6 36 (8.87%) Cucumber
7 32 (7.88%) Git
8 31 (7.64%) REST Assured
9 26 (6.40%) Cypress.io
10 24 (5.91%) JUnit
11 23 (5.67%) JMeter
12 13 (3.20%) SpecFlow
13 12 (2.96%) TestRail
13 12 (2.96%) WebDriver
14 11 (2.71%) Appium
14 11 (2.71%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (1.72%) Jaeger
15 7 (1.72%) Zephyr
16 6 (1.48%) Gatling
16 6 (1.48%) Toad
General
1 175 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.69%) Finance
3 71 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.67%) Banking
6 19 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.97%) Military
9 8 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Electronics
10 7 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 6 (1.48%) Billing
11 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.48%) Retail
12 5 (1.23%) Legal
13 4 (0.99%) Law
13 4 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (22.91%) Analyst
2 72 (17.73%) Tester
3 64 (15.76%) Test Analyst
4 52 (12.81%) Test Engineer
5 47 (11.58%) Lead
6 37 (9.11%) Senior
7 27 (6.65%) Automation Tester
8 23 (5.67%) QA Engineer
8 23 (5.67%) Test Leader
9 21 (5.17%) Test Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.93%) Consultant
11 16 (3.94%) Developer
12 15 (3.69%) Test Specialist
13 14 (3.45%) Oracle Analyst
14 13 (3.20%) Functional Consultant
14 13 (3.20%) SAP Analyst
15 12 (2.96%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.96%) SAP Consultant
15 12 (2.96%) SAP Test Analyst
15 12 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.58%) Playwright
2 38 (9.36%) REST
3 18 (4.43%) .NET
4 17 (4.19%) pytest
5 15 (3.69%) Kafka
6 14 (3.45%) Middleware
7 13 (3.20%) ADO
7 13 (3.20%) Node.js
7 13 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.20%) SailPoint
8 11 (2.71%) XML
9 9 (2.22%) CSS
9 9 (2.22%) HTML
9 9 (2.22%) LDAP
9 9 (2.22%) OpenID
10 8 (1.97%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.97%) Web Services
11 7 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (1.72%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
1 19 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 18 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.69%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.48%) Tandem
10 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.99%) NHS
11 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.99%) PCIe
11 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.65%) Windows
2 17 (4.19%) Linux
3 11 (2.71%) Android
3 11 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (49.26%) Test Automation
2 152 (37.44%) Agile
3 106 (26.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 104 (25.62%) DevOps
4 104 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 86 (21.18%) Software Testing
7 83 (20.44%) Test Strategy
8 78 (19.21%) Validation
9 68 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (16.75%) Regression Testing
10 67 (16.50%) Scenario Testing
11 65 (16.01%) Defect Management
12 62 (15.27%) API Testing
13 56 (13.79%) Test Management
14 55 (13.55%) Integration Testing
15 51 (12.56%) Manual Testing
16 48 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (11.58%) End-to-End Testing
18 43 (10.59%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.46%) SQL
2 76 (18.72%) Python
3 67 (16.50%) Java
4 56 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 47 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 41 (10.10%) C#
7 7 (1.72%) Ada
7 7 (1.72%) Rust
8 6 (1.48%) PHP
8 6 (1.48%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.48%) Scala
9 4 (0.99%) Bash
9 4 (0.99%) C
9 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.99%) Swift
10 3 (0.74%) Cypher
10 3 (0.74%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.74%) VB
10 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 113 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 75 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.62%) ISTQB
4 34 (8.37%) Degree
5 24 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.96%) ISEB
8 11 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.23%) CCNP
12 5 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.74%) CCNA
14 3 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.49%) MCSA
15 2 (0.49%) MCSE
15 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (34.73%) QA
2 27 (6.65%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.99%) WCAG
5 3 (0.74%) NCSC
5 3 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) GxP
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) ITGC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (6.65%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.45%) Grafana
3 11 (2.71%) HP ALM
4 9 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.97%) Ansible
6 7 (1.72%) Kiali
7 5 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.74%) Terraform
9 2 (0.49%) Iperf
9 2 (0.49%) Nmap
9 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Kibana
10 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (13.30%) Oracle
2 37 (9.11%) SAP
3 36 (8.87%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.94%) Splunk
5 15 (3.69%) Databricks
5 15 (3.69%) Workday
6 14 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.96%) HP
8 9 (2.22%) Cisco
8 9 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.97%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.72%) VMware
11 4 (0.99%) UiPath
11 4 (0.99%) webMethods
12 3 (0.74%) Ariba
12 3 (0.74%) Brio
12 3 (0.74%) Charles River
12 3 (0.74%) Google
12 3 (0.74%) IBM
12 3 (0.74%) Optimizely