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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 254 202
Rank change year-on-year +24 -52 +95
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 411 265 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.02% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.14% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 165 294
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £360 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £573
90th Percentile £630 £618 £664
UK median daily rate £475 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +7.04% -6.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 39
10th Percentile £36.54 - £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% +30.77%
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% +30.77%

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 30,349 23,302 32,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.42% 89.94% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,395 14,514 21,728
10th Percentile £311 £308 £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 1,903 732 1,999
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.79 £60.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +6 182 £428 -10.00% 16
North of England -52 64 £400 +11.11% 15
Midlands -58 46 £475 +18.75% 22
South East -17 42 £463 +7.30% 23
South West +14 39 £538 +5.39% 9
Yorkshire -30 37 £484 +17.33% 2
West Midlands -49 37 £477 +19.13% 14
East of England -7 28 £400 +28.00% 15
North West -35 23 £395 +12.86% 12
East Midlands -27 9 £360 -8.98% 8
North East -11 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 24 (5.84%) Confluence
2 13 (3.16%) SAS
3 5 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.24%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.16%) Aladdin
1 13 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.19%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.19%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (1.95%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.95%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.73%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.73%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.73%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.49%) BambooHR
8 2 (0.49%) iTrent
8 2 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 92 (22.38%) Azure
2 67 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (7.79%) AWS
4 20 (4.87%) GCP
5 18 (4.38%) OpenShift
6 17 (4.14%) GitHub
7 14 (3.41%) OCI
7 14 (3.41%) Snowflake
8 13 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.43%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (2.43%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.70%) SaaS
11 6 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.22%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.22%) Sentry
13 3 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.65%) Firewall
2 6 (1.46%) HTTP
3 5 (1.22%) DNS
4 4 (0.97%) BGP
4 4 (0.97%) DHCP
4 4 (0.97%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.97%) MPLS
4 4 (0.97%) OSPF
4 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.97%) VLAN
4 4 (0.97%) VPN
5 3 (0.73%) 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 (0.24%) VoIP
7 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.68%) BigQuery
2 11 (2.68%) Oracle Database
3 8 (1.95%) MySQL
4 7 (1.70%) Big Data
4 7 (1.70%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.70%) Power BI
5 6 (1.46%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (1.22%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (26.28%) JIRA
2 76 (18.49%) Selenium
3 61 (14.84%) Postman
4 49 (11.92%) Jenkins
5 37 (9.00%) Cucumber
5 37 (9.00%) GitLab
6 32 (7.79%) Git
6 32 (7.79%) REST Assured
7 27 (6.57%) Cypress.io
8 25 (6.08%) JUnit
9 23 (5.60%) JMeter
10 14 (3.41%) SpecFlow
11 12 (2.92%) TestRail
12 11 (2.68%) Appium
12 11 (2.68%) Rational DOORS
12 11 (2.68%) WebDriver
13 7 (1.70%) Jaeger
13 7 (1.70%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.46%) Gatling
14 6 (1.46%) Toad
General
1 177 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.68%) Finance
3 77 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.08%) Banking
6 19 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.95%) Military
8 8 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.70%) Electronics
9 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.70%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.46%) Retail
11 5 (1.22%) Billing
11 5 (1.22%) Legal
12 4 (0.97%) Back Office
12 4 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 95 (23.11%) Analyst
2 74 (18.00%) Tester
3 65 (15.82%) Test Analyst
4 53 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 46 (11.19%) Lead
6 37 (9.00%) Senior
7 28 (6.81%) Automation Tester
8 23 (5.60%) QA Engineer
8 23 (5.60%) Test Leader
9 21 (5.11%) Test Automation Engineer
10 18 (4.38%) Consultant
11 16 (3.89%) Developer
12 15 (3.65%) Test Specialist
13 14 (3.41%) Oracle Analyst
13 14 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.16%) Functional Consultant
15 12 (2.92%) SAP Analyst
15 12 (2.92%) SAP Consultant
16 11 (2.68%) SAP Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.92%) Playwright
2 39 (9.49%) REST
3 19 (4.62%) .NET
4 18 (4.38%) pytest
5 17 (4.14%) Kafka
6 14 (3.41%) Middleware
7 13 (3.16%) ADO
7 13 (3.16%) Node.js
7 13 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.16%) SailPoint
8 11 (2.68%) XML
9 10 (2.43%) CSS
9 10 (2.43%) HTML
10 9 (2.19%) LDAP
10 9 (2.19%) OpenID
11 8 (1.95%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.95%) Web Services
12 7 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (1.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.46%) Fibre Optics
7 6 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.46%) Tandem
8 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) NHS
9 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.97%) PCIe
9 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.57%) Windows
2 17 (4.14%) Linux
3 11 (2.68%) Android
3 11 (2.68%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (49.64%) Test Automation
2 156 (37.96%) Agile
3 108 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (25.79%) DevOps
5 103 (25.06%) CI/CD
5 103 (25.06%) User Acceptance Testing
6 90 (21.90%) Software Testing
7 84 (20.44%) Test Strategy
8 82 (19.95%) Validation
9 71 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (17.27%) Regression Testing
10 66 (16.06%) Scenario Testing
11 63 (15.33%) API Testing
11 63 (15.33%) Defect Management
12 56 (13.63%) Integration Testing
12 56 (13.63%) Test Management
13 53 (12.90%) Manual Testing
14 51 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 47 (11.44%) End-to-End Testing
16 43 (10.46%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.71%) Python
2 79 (19.22%) SQL
3 70 (17.03%) Java
4 58 (14.11%) JavaScript
5 49 (11.92%) TypeScript
6 44 (10.71%) C#
7 7 (1.70%) Ada
7 7 (1.70%) Rust
8 6 (1.46%) PHP
8 6 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.22%) Scala
10 4 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) C
10 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.97%) Swift
11 3 (0.73%) C++
11 3 (0.73%) Cypher
11 3 (0.73%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.73%) VB
11 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 78 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.00%) ISTQB
4 34 (8.27%) Degree
5 25 (6.08%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.92%) ISEB
7 12 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.22%) CCNP
10 5 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.73%) CCNA
12 3 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.49%) CCIE
13 2 (0.49%) MCSA
13 2 (0.49%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (34.06%) QA
2 26 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.73%) NCSC
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 3 (0.73%) WCAG
5 2 (0.49%) PMO
5 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
6 1 (0.24%) HL7
6 1 (0.24%) ITGC
6 1 (0.24%) MiFID
6 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (6.57%) Docker
2 7 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.41%) Grafana
3 11 (2.68%) HP ALM
4 9 (2.19%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.95%) Ansible
6 7 (1.70%) Kiali
7 5 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.73%) Terraform
9 2 (0.49%) Iperf
9 2 (0.49%) Nmap
9 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) Kibana
10 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (13.14%) Oracle
2 37 (9.00%) SAP
3 35 (8.52%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.89%) Databricks
4 16 (3.89%) Splunk
4 16 (3.89%) Workday
5 15 (3.65%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.92%) HP
7 9 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.95%) Avaloq
8 8 (1.95%) Cisco
9 7 (1.70%) VMware
10 4 (0.97%) UiPath
10 4 (0.97%) webMethods
11 3 (0.73%) Ariba
11 3 (0.73%) Charles River
11 3 (0.73%) Google
11 3 (0.73%) IBM
11 3 (0.73%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.49%) Fortinet