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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 215 232
Rank change year-on-year -91 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 367 361 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.31% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.44% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 253 229
10th Percentile £317 £268 £306
25th Percentile £394 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £637 £625
UK median daily rate £466 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +3.61% -2.70% -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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 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 26 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 26 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 - 31
South East -78 58 £475 +8.57% 20
Midlands -32 57 £398 +16.91% 7
West Midlands -43 44 £382 +62.55% 6
North of England -76 44 £416 -2.12% 10
East of England -8 28 £74 -80.27% 5
South West -44 28 £525 +1.20% 14
North West -59 25 £432 +1.71% 5
Yorkshire -34 15 £404 -3.93% 2
East Midlands -10 13 £638 +77.08% 1
North East -40 4 £453 -1.52% 3
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 42 (11.44%) Confluence
2 13 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (8.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.72%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.91%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.09%) HFM
6 4 (1.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (1.09%) SAP GTS
6 4 (1.09%) SAP SD
6 4 (1.09%) SAP VC
7 3 (0.82%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.82%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.82%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.82%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.54%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.71%) Azure
2 51 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (12.26%) AWS
4 23 (6.27%) GitHub
5 12 (3.27%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.00%) GCP
7 8 (2.18%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (1.91%) OCI
8 7 (1.91%) SaaS
9 6 (1.63%) Figma
9 6 (1.63%) Pendo
9 6 (1.63%) Tricentis Tosca
10 5 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.09%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.82%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.63%) Ethernet
1 6 (1.63%) HTTP
2 5 (1.36%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.36%) Wireless
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) Network Security
4 3 (0.82%) LAN
4 3 (0.82%) WAN
5 2 (0.54%) Firewall
5 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.27%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.27%) WAAS
6 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.90%) Data Warehouse
1 29 (7.90%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (3.27%) Power BI
3 8 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.09%) Metadata
5 4 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (1.09%) Tableau
6 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.82%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.54%) Base SAS
7 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.54%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 120 (32.70%) JIRA
2 49 (13.35%) Postman
3 45 (12.26%) Selenium
4 31 (8.45%) Git
5 27 (7.36%) Zephyr
6 24 (6.54%) JMeter
7 23 (6.27%) Jenkins
8 20 (5.45%) Cucumber
9 16 (4.36%) LoadRunner
10 14 (3.81%) REST Assured
11 13 (3.54%) GitLab
12 11 (3.00%) Cypress.io
12 11 (3.00%) Gatling
13 9 (2.45%) NeoLoad
13 9 (2.45%) WebDriver
14 8 (2.18%) Bitbucket
14 8 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (1.91%) SoapUI
16 6 (1.63%) SpecFlow
17 5 (1.36%) HP UFT
General
1 152 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (20.98%) Finance
4 55 (14.99%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.72%) Banking
6 11 (3.00%) Legal
6 11 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.72%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.45%) Automotive
8 9 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.91%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.63%) Military
10 6 (1.63%) Retail
11 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.82%) Billing
12 3 (0.82%) Electronics
12 3 (0.82%) Local Government
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (20.71%) Analyst
2 62 (16.89%) Tester
3 51 (13.90%) Test Engineer
4 45 (12.26%) Consultant
5 41 (11.17%) Lead
6 34 (9.26%) Test Analyst
7 28 (7.63%) Business Analyst
8 23 (6.27%) Senior
9 22 (5.99%) Test Manager
10 17 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.63%) Test Automation Engineer
11 16 (4.36%) QA Tester
11 16 (4.36%) Test Leader
12 14 (3.81%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (3.81%) QA Engineer
13 13 (3.54%) Principal Software Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Automation Tester
15 10 (2.72%) Developer
15 10 (2.72%) SAP Consultant
16 9 (2.45%) Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.63%) Playwright
2 16 (4.36%) REST
3 14 (3.81%) .NET
4 11 (3.00%) SOAP
5 10 (2.72%) Web Services
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (2.45%) React
6 9 (2.45%) XML
7 8 (2.18%) HTML
7 8 (2.18%) Middleware
7 8 (2.18%) RESTful
8 6 (1.63%) Kafka
9 5 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (1.36%) Terraform
10 4 (1.09%) ADO
10 4 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.09%) Swagger
11 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.82%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.82%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.72%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.91%) CMDB
11 5 (1.36%) FPGA
11 5 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.36%) NHS
11 5 (1.36%) PACS
11 5 (1.36%) PCIe
11 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.36%) Windows
2 17 (4.63%) Linux
3 5 (1.36%) Android
3 5 (1.36%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (1.09%) VMS
4 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
6 2 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (42.23%) Test Automation
2 141 (38.42%) Agile
3 121 (32.97%) User Acceptance Testing
4 98 (26.70%) Validation
5 82 (22.34%) End-to-End Testing
6 80 (21.80%) Migration
7 79 (21.53%) Scenario Testing
8 70 (19.07%) DevOps
9 67 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (17.44%) Defect Management
11 64 (17.44%) Software Testing
11 64 (17.44%) Test Strategy
12 62 (16.89%) CI/CD
12 62 (16.89%) Test Management
13 61 (16.62%) Data Migration
14 59 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (14.17%) Integration Testing
15 52 (14.17%) Manual Testing
16 50 (13.62%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.16%) SQL
2 40 (10.90%) Java
3 39 (10.63%) Python
4 26 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.09%) C#
6 11 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.18%) ABAP
8 6 (1.63%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.36%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.36%) C
10 4 (1.09%) C++
11 3 (0.82%) Groovy
11 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.82%) Ruby
11 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.54%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.27%) PeopleCode
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.17%) ISTQB
4 31 (8.45%) Degree
5 28 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.91%) ACCA
9 7 (1.91%) CIMA
10 6 (1.63%) ISEB
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.27%) CCNA
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.27%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (29.70%) QA
2 25 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.45%) WCAG
5 7 (1.91%) GRC
5 7 (1.91%) NCSC
6 6 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.36%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.09%) IFRS
9 3 (0.82%) DICOM
9 3 (0.82%) HL7
9 3 (0.82%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.54%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) SEPA
10 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.27%) GMP
System Software
1 12 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.63%) Docker
3 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.09%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.91%) Grafana
3 6 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 3 (0.82%) Control-M
4 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.82%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.54%) Kibana
6 1 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (15.80%) Oracle
2 53 (14.44%) SAP
3 34 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.18%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.63%) Databricks
9 5 (1.36%) Conga
9 5 (1.36%) Denodo
9 5 (1.36%) GoCardless
9 5 (1.36%) Google
9 5 (1.36%) Workday
10 4 (1.09%) Ariba
10 4 (1.09%) HP
10 4 (1.09%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.09%) IBM
10 4 (1.09%) Splunk
10 4 (1.09%) Tagetik
10 4 (1.09%) VMware