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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 216 237
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 401 291 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.22% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.34% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 191 249
10th Percentile £325 £253 £312
25th Percentile £363 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £630
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +8.82% -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 17
10th Percentile £25.38 £19.16 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £45.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -22.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -22.08%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -40 155 £475 - 17
North of England -49 66 £400 -5.33% 11
Midlands -46 61 £362 +3.29% 12
South East -59 48 £500 +21.21% 18
West Midlands -51 47 £360 +53.19% 7
South West -8 40 £538 +10.26% 6
Yorkshire -26 40 £453 +30.36% 2
East of England -20 27 £350 -9.68% 8
North West -42 24 £383 -12.57% 7
East Midlands -23 14 £638 +72.06% 5
North East -23 2 £313 -25.60% 2
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 32 (7.98%) Confluence
2 10 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 25 (6.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.74%) Aladdin
3 8 (2.00%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.75%) Loan IQ
5 6 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 5 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (1.00%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (1.00%) SAP GTS
7 4 (1.00%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (1.00%) SAP SD
7 4 (1.00%) SAP VC
8 3 (0.75%) HFM
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.75%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.44%) Azure
2 66 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (10.72%) AWS
4 17 (4.24%) GCP
5 16 (3.99%) OCI
6 15 (3.74%) SuccessFactors
7 14 (3.49%) GitHub
8 11 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.75%) SaaS
10 6 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.25%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.25%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.00%) Tricentis Tosca
13 3 (0.75%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.24%) Firewall
2 6 (1.50%) HTTP
3 5 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.25%) Wireless
4 4 (1.00%) Network Security
5 2 (0.50%) BGP
5 2 (0.50%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.50%) LAN
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
5 2 (0.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.73%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.74%) Power BI
5 7 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.50%) MySQL
7 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.75%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 2 (0.50%) Tableau
10 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.25%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 127 (31.67%) JIRA
2 62 (15.46%) Postman
3 49 (12.22%) Selenium
4 39 (9.73%) Jenkins
5 30 (7.48%) Git
6 27 (6.73%) Zephyr
7 26 (6.48%) Cucumber
8 23 (5.74%) REST Assured
9 22 (5.49%) GitLab
10 15 (3.74%) JMeter
11 13 (3.24%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.99%) JUnit
12 12 (2.99%) SpecFlow
13 11 (2.74%) Cypress.io
14 10 (2.49%) Gatling
14 10 (2.49%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (2.24%) LoadRunner
15 9 (2.24%) TestRail
16 7 (1.75%) Jaeger
17 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 153 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
2 85 (21.20%) Finance
3 40 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.48%) Banking
5 22 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.24%) Retail
8 8 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Automotive
9 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.50%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.50%) Military
11 4 (1.00%) Electronics
11 4 (1.00%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (24.44%) Analyst
2 76 (18.95%) Tester
3 53 (13.22%) Test Analyst
4 49 (12.22%) Lead
5 45 (11.22%) Test Engineer
6 31 (7.73%) Test Leader
7 25 (6.23%) Automation Tester
7 25 (6.23%) Business Analyst
8 22 (5.49%) Senior
8 22 (5.49%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (5.49%) Test Manager
9 20 (4.99%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.24%) Consultant
11 15 (3.74%) QA Engineer
12 13 (3.24%) Project Officer
12 13 (3.24%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Oracle Analyst
14 11 (2.74%) Developer
15 10 (2.49%) QA Analyst
16 9 (2.24%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.98%) Playwright
2 26 (6.48%) REST
3 19 (4.74%) .NET
4 14 (3.49%) Kafka
5 11 (2.74%) Middleware
5 11 (2.74%) SailPoint
6 10 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (2.49%) pytest
6 10 (2.49%) React
7 9 (2.24%) ADO
7 9 (2.24%) HTML
7 9 (2.24%) LDAP
7 9 (2.24%) OpenID
8 8 (2.00%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.25%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.25%) CSS
10 5 (1.25%) Node.js
10 5 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.24%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.50%) Mobile App
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%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.25%) Tandem
11 4 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.99%) Windows
2 15 (3.74%) Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Android
3 5 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.00%) VMS
5 2 (0.50%) AIX
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (43.89%) Test Automation
2 159 (39.65%) Agile
3 115 (28.68%) User Acceptance Testing
4 98 (24.44%) DevOps
5 90 (22.44%) Scenario Testing
6 89 (22.19%) Validation
7 87 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (20.45%) Migration
9 77 (19.20%) CI/CD
10 76 (18.95%) Test Management
11 72 (17.96%) End-to-End Testing
12 67 (16.71%) Software Testing
13 66 (16.46%) Integration Testing
14 65 (16.21%) Data Migration
15 62 (15.46%) Test Strategy
16 61 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (14.71%) Manual Testing
17 59 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
18 58 (14.46%) API Testing
19 51 (12.72%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (18.70%) SQL
2 62 (15.46%) Python
3 56 (13.97%) Java
4 43 (10.72%) JavaScript
5 33 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 32 (7.98%) C#
7 7 (1.75%) Rust
8 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.50%) PHP
9 5 (1.25%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.25%) C
9 5 (1.25%) C++
9 5 (1.25%) Scala
10 3 (0.75%) Ada
10 3 (0.75%) Cypher
10 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.75%) Ruby
11 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) VB
12 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 113 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 74 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.97%) ISTQB
4 30 (7.48%) Degree
5 29 (7.23%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.00%) ISEB
10 3 (0.75%) ACCA
10 3 (0.75%) CIMA
11 2 (0.50%) CCNA
11 2 (0.50%) CCNP
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.50%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (31.17%) QA
2 20 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.00%) NCSC
5 6 (1.50%) GRC
6 5 (1.25%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.75%) DICOM
8 3 (0.75%) HL7
8 3 (0.75%) IFRS
8 3 (0.75%) WCAG
9 2 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) GDPR
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.25%) NIST
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (2.74%) Docker
2 9 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) SRDF
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.49%) Grafana
3 8 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.75%) Kiali
4 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.50%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.25%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (1.00%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) Ansible
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (17.96%) Oracle
2 39 (9.73%) SAP
3 31 (7.73%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.99%) Workday
6 12 (2.99%) Databricks
7 11 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.24%) HP
9 7 (1.75%) Splunk
10 6 (1.50%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.50%) Google
10 6 (1.50%) Talend
11 5 (1.25%) Conga
11 5 (1.25%) GoCardless
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco
12 4 (1.00%) Dell
12 4 (1.00%) Hitachi
13 3 (0.75%) Hyperion
13 3 (0.75%) JD Edwards
13 3 (0.75%) Sage