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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 242 233
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +35
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 409 262 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 1.07% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.17% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 162 267
10th Percentile £315 £263 £313
25th Percentile £356 £343 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% +2.16%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £612 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £25.04 £19.16 £41.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.00 £47.81
Median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% - +33.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £85.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -19.12% - +33.60%

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 0 176 £467 -1.74% 14
North of England -37 65 £400 -14.44% 13
Midlands -39 60 £360 +2.86% 20
West Midlands -41 50 £360 +53.19% 11
South East -37 48 £450 +12.50% 19
Yorkshire -20 39 £468 +70.18% 1
South West -16 31 £538 +29.52% 4
East of England -12 23 £350 -12.50% 16
North West -43 23 £365 -24.16% 10
East Midlands -30 10 £638 +63.04% 9
North East -18 3 £394 -4.26% 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 25 (6.11%) Confluence
2 7 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.47%) SAS
4 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 25 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.42%) Aladdin
3 11 (2.69%) Loan IQ
4 9 (2.20%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.96%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (1.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 4 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.73%) Maximo
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.73%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.49%) Algo Collateral
10 2 (0.49%) BambooHR
10 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.47%) Azure
2 73 (17.85%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (10.27%) AWS
4 17 (4.16%) GitHub
5 16 (3.91%) GCP
5 16 (3.91%) OCI
6 15 (3.67%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
7 12 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (2.69%) Tricentis Tosca
9 9 (2.20%) OpenShift
9 9 (2.20%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.71%) SaaS
11 6 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.47%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.73%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.73%) BlazeMeter
13 3 (0.73%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.20%) Firewall
2 7 (1.71%) HTTP
3 4 (0.98%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.98%) Network Security
3 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (0.98%) Wireless
4 2 (0.49%) BGP
4 2 (0.49%) DHCP
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) FTP
4 2 (0.49%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.49%) LAN
4 2 (0.49%) MPLS
4 2 (0.49%) OSPF
4 2 (0.49%) SAN
4 2 (0.49%) VLAN
4 2 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.60%) Oracle Reports
2 23 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.20%) Power BI
5 7 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.47%) MySQL
7 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.49%) Metadata
8 2 (0.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.24%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 134 (32.76%) JIRA
2 61 (14.91%) Postman
3 59 (14.43%) Selenium
4 42 (10.27%) Jenkins
5 36 (8.80%) Git
6 30 (7.33%) Cucumber
7 27 (6.60%) GitLab
8 25 (6.11%) Zephyr
9 24 (5.87%) JMeter
10 21 (5.13%) REST Assured
11 19 (4.65%) JUnit
12 17 (4.16%) SpecFlow
13 15 (3.67%) Cypress.io
14 14 (3.42%) WebDriver
15 11 (2.69%) Gatling
15 11 (2.69%) TestRail
16 9 (2.20%) LoadRunner
17 8 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
18 7 (1.71%) Jaeger
19 6 (1.47%) Appium
General
1 168 (41.08%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.78%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (20.54%) Finance
4 44 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 32 (7.82%) Banking
6 20 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.20%) Retail
10 8 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.71%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.22%) Legal
14 4 (0.98%) Electronics
14 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.98%) Military
15 3 (0.73%) Front Office
15 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (25.67%) Analyst
2 88 (21.52%) Tester
3 67 (16.38%) Test Analyst
4 50 (12.22%) Lead
5 46 (11.25%) Test Engineer
6 31 (7.58%) Automation Tester
7 30 (7.33%) Test Leader
8 26 (6.36%) Senior
9 23 (5.62%) Test Automation Engineer
10 20 (4.89%) QA Engineer
11 18 (4.40%) QA Tester
12 17 (4.16%) Business Analyst
12 17 (4.16%) Test Manager
13 13 (3.18%) Project Officer
14 12 (2.93%) Consultant
14 12 (2.93%) Developer
14 12 (2.93%) Migration Analyst
14 12 (2.93%) Oracle Analyst
14 12 (2.93%) QA Automation Engineer
15 11 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.27%) Playwright
2 28 (6.85%) REST
3 20 (4.89%) .NET
4 17 (4.16%) Kafka
5 13 (3.18%) Middleware
6 12 (2.93%) pytest
6 12 (2.93%) SailPoint
7 11 (2.69%) XML
8 10 (2.44%) Node.js
9 9 (2.20%) LDAP
9 9 (2.20%) OpenID
9 9 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.96%) ADO
10 8 (1.96%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.71%) CSS
11 7 (1.71%) HTML
11 7 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (1.22%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.22%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.33%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.69%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.96%) Tandem
9 7 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.22%) PACS
12 4 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.98%) Derivative
12 4 (0.98%) FPGA
12 4 (0.98%) PCIe
13 3 (0.73%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.87%) Windows
2 16 (3.91%) Linux
3 7 (1.71%) Android
4 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.49%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (46.70%) Test Automation
2 163 (39.85%) Agile
3 118 (28.85%) User Acceptance Testing
4 102 (24.94%) DevOps
5 96 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (23.23%) Validation
7 93 (22.74%) Scenario Testing
8 85 (20.78%) CI/CD
9 82 (20.05%) Test Management
10 72 (17.60%) Migration
11 70 (17.11%) End-to-End Testing
12 69 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (16.38%) Integration Testing
13 67 (16.38%) Software Testing
14 65 (15.89%) Manual Testing
15 62 (15.16%) Regression Testing
16 61 (14.91%) API Testing
17 60 (14.67%) Test Strategy
18 59 (14.43%) Data Migration
19 57 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.03%) SQL
2 63 (15.40%) Java
2 63 (15.40%) Python
3 52 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 47 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 41 (10.02%) C#
6 7 (1.71%) Rust
7 6 (1.47%) PHP
8 5 (1.22%) Scala
9 4 (0.98%) C
10 3 (0.73%) Ada
10 3 (0.73%) C++
10 3 (0.73%) Cypher
10 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.49%) VB
12 1 (0.24%) Bash
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.25%) ISTQB
4 27 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 25 (6.11%) Degree
6 14 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.20%) ISEB
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.49%) CCNA
10 2 (0.49%) CCNP
10 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.49%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
11 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (33.74%) QA
2 16 (3.91%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.22%) GRC
3 5 (1.22%) SLA
4 4 (0.98%) HL7
4 4 (0.98%) WCAG
5 3 (0.73%) DICOM
5 3 (0.73%) NCSC
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (3.91%) Docker
2 10 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.49%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 23 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.69%) Grafana
3 8 (1.96%) HP ALM
3 8 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.71%) Kiali
4 7 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.47%) Ansible
6 5 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.98%) Kibana
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Terraform
9 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (18.09%) Oracle
2 37 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.05%) SAP
3 17 (4.16%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.16%) Workday
4 15 (3.67%) Databricks
5 11 (2.69%) HP
6 8 (1.96%) Avaloq
6 8 (1.96%) Splunk
7 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.47%) Talend
8 6 (1.47%) VMware
9 5 (1.22%) Google
10 4 (0.98%) Ariba
10 4 (0.98%) Cisco
10 4 (0.98%) Dell
10 4 (0.98%) Hitachi
10 4 (0.98%) IBM
10 4 (0.98%) webMethods
11 3 (0.73%) Sage