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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 213 233
Rank change year-on-year -36 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 404 302 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.25% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.37% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 205 252
10th Percentile £319 £256 £308
25th Percentile £363 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £429 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -9.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £618 £630
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 16
10th Percentile £25.38 £18.82 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £40.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -22.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -39 156 £475 - 20
North of England -60 66 £435 +2.35% 7
Midlands -35 60 £362 +6.32% 20
South East -63 50 £500 +25.00% 23
West Midlands -43 48 £360 +53.19% 12
South West -8 40 £538 +7.50% 3
Yorkshire -22 40 £453 +7.86% 3
East of England -12 28 £350 -6.67% 9
North West -48 22 £400 -6.76% 4
East Midlands -20 12 £638 +74.42% 8
North East -28 4 £453 +2.95% 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 34 (8.42%) Confluence
2 10 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.24%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (6.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.48%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.73%) Loan IQ
4 6 (1.49%) SAP Payroll
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.99%) HFM
6 4 (0.99%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (0.99%) SAP GTS
6 4 (0.99%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.99%) SAP VC
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.74%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 89 (22.03%) Azure
2 66 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (11.88%) AWS
4 17 (4.21%) GCP
5 16 (3.96%) OCI
6 14 (3.47%) GitHub
7 13 (3.22%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.48%) SaaS
9 10 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.24%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.24%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.99%) Tricentis Tosca
13 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.23%) Firewall
2 7 (1.73%) HTTP
3 5 (1.24%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.24%) Wireless
4 4 (0.99%) 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%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.42%) Oracle Reports
2 31 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.71%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.72%) Power BI
5 7 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.49%) MySQL
7 4 (0.99%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 2 (0.50%) Tableau
10 1 (0.25%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 132 (32.67%) JIRA
2 62 (15.35%) Postman
3 48 (11.88%) Selenium
4 40 (9.90%) Jenkins
5 31 (7.67%) Git
6 30 (7.43%) Zephyr
7 27 (6.68%) Cucumber
8 24 (5.94%) GitLab
9 22 (5.45%) REST Assured
10 15 (3.71%) JMeter
11 13 (3.22%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.97%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.97%) JUnit
13 11 (2.72%) SpecFlow
13 11 (2.72%) TestRail
14 10 (2.48%) LoadRunner
15 9 (2.23%) Gatling
15 9 (2.23%) Rational DOORS
16 7 (1.73%) Jaeger
17 6 (1.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 152 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.29%) Finance
3 81 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.66%) Banking
6 23 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.73%) Automotive
11 6 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.49%) Legal
11 6 (1.49%) Military
11 6 (1.49%) Retail
12 4 (0.99%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
13 3 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (24.26%) Analyst
2 76 (18.81%) Tester
3 51 (12.62%) Test Analyst
4 49 (12.13%) Lead
5 44 (10.89%) Test Engineer
6 30 (7.43%) Test Leader
7 27 (6.68%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.94%) Senior
9 23 (5.69%) Test Manager
10 22 (5.45%) QA Tester
11 21 (5.20%) Automation Tester
11 21 (5.20%) Test Automation Engineer
12 20 (4.95%) Consultant
13 15 (3.71%) QA Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.22%) Project Officer
16 11 (2.72%) Developer
16 11 (2.72%) QA Analyst
17 10 (2.48%) Migration Manager
17 10 (2.48%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.17%) Playwright
2 24 (5.94%) REST
3 17 (4.21%) .NET
4 14 (3.47%) Kafka
5 11 (2.72%) Middleware
5 11 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (2.48%) pytest
6 10 (2.48%) React
6 10 (2.48%) SailPoint
7 8 (1.98%) ADO
7 8 (1.98%) HTML
7 8 (1.98%) LDAP
7 8 (1.98%) OpenID
7 8 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.24%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.24%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.24%) CSS
9 5 (1.24%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.18%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (5.20%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.71%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.24%) FPGA
11 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.24%) PACS
11 5 (1.24%) PCIe
11 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.24%) Tandem
12 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.96%) Windows
2 15 (3.71%) Linux
3 6 (1.49%) Android
4 5 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.99%) VMS
6 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.50%) AIX
7 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (44.31%) Test Automation
2 161 (39.85%) Agile
3 114 (28.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 96 (23.76%) DevOps
5 91 (22.52%) Scenario Testing
6 89 (22.03%) Validation
7 85 (21.04%) Migration
8 83 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (18.56%) CI/CD
9 75 (18.56%) Test Management
10 73 (18.07%) End-to-End Testing
11 68 (16.83%) Data Migration
11 68 (16.83%) Software Testing
12 66 (16.34%) Integration Testing
13 64 (15.84%) Test Strategy
14 60 (14.85%) Manual Testing
15 59 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (12.87%) API Testing
17 52 (12.87%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (18.56%) SQL
2 60 (14.85%) Python
3 57 (14.11%) Java
4 38 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 29 (7.18%) C#
6 28 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.73%) Rust
8 6 (1.49%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.49%) PHP
9 5 (1.24%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.24%) C
9 5 (1.24%) C++
9 5 (1.24%) Scala
10 3 (0.74%) Cypher
10 3 (0.74%) Groovy
10 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.74%) Ruby
11 2 (0.50%) ABAP
11 2 (0.50%) Ada
11 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 118 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.88%) ISTQB
4 31 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.18%) Degree
6 13 (3.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.99%) ACCA
9 4 (0.99%) CIMA
10 3 (0.74%) ISEB
10 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.50%) CCNA
11 2 (0.50%) CCNP
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (30.94%) QA
2 22 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.23%) NCSC
5 6 (1.49%) GRC
5 6 (1.49%) SLA
6 5 (1.24%) JSP 440
6 5 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.99%) IFRS
8 3 (0.74%) DICOM
8 3 (0.74%) HL7
8 3 (0.74%) 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 12 (2.97%) Docker
2 9 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (0.50%) Firmware
4 2 (0.50%) SRDF
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.48%) Grafana
3 8 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.73%) Kiali
5 6 (1.49%) HP ALM
5 6 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.24%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.99%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) Ansible
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Terraform
9 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (18.32%) Oracle
2 42 (10.40%) SAP
3 31 (7.67%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.47%) Workday
6 11 (2.72%) Databricks
6 11 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.23%) HP
8 7 (1.73%) Splunk
9 6 (1.49%) Google
9 6 (1.49%) Talend
10 5 (1.24%) Avaloq
10 5 (1.24%) Conga
10 5 (1.24%) Denodo
10 5 (1.24%) GoCardless
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco
11 4 (0.99%) Dell
11 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.99%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.99%) Tagetik