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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 241 183
Rank change year-on-year +28 -58 +97
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 397 314 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.01% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.16% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 202 361
10th Percentile £300 £306 £356
25th Percentile £360 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% +5.85%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £626 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £472 £480
% change year-on-year +0.74% -1.77% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 33
10th Percentile £41.26 £41.23 £76.53
25th Percentile £50.19 £48.69 £83.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £61.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -31.39% +39.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.19 -
90th Percentile £70.50 £81.28 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £31.55 £90.00
% change year-on-year +112.36% -64.94% +39.00%

All Process and 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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +48 185 £500 - 20
South East +13 61 £463 +12.12% 39
North of England -36 48 £400 -15.79% 5
Midlands -19 47 £425 +17.24% 9
West Midlands -12 36 £476 +32.61% 7
North West -18 31 £400 - 4
South West +14 25 £537 +2.29% 7
East of England -13 17 £400 +28.00% 8
Yorkshire -27 14 £450 -10.00%
East Midlands -11 11 £360 -0.69% 2
North East -8 3 £300 -29.41% 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 19 (4.79%) Confluence
2 12 (3.02%) SAS
3 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.76%) CMS
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.50%) CICS
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
Applications
1 16 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.25%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.79%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (4.53%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (3.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 11 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (2.52%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (2.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 9 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (2.02%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (1.76%) Aladdin
8 7 (1.76%) Oracle Assets
8 7 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (1.01%) Loan IQ
10 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.76%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.76%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.76%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.50%) Algo Collateral
11 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 66 (16.62%) Azure
2 49 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (7.30%) AWS
4 17 (4.28%) OpenShift
5 16 (4.03%) GitHub
6 12 (3.02%) OCI
7 11 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (2.77%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.77%) SuccessFactors
8 10 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.27%) GCP
9 9 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.76%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.51%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.26%) Sentry
13 4 (1.01%) PaaS
13 4 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.04%) Firewall
2 8 (2.02%) HTTP
3 5 (1.26%) DNS
4 4 (1.01%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.01%) LAN
4 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.76%) 4G
5 3 (0.76%) 5G
5 3 (0.76%) BGP
5 3 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.76%) DHCP
5 3 (0.76%) MPLS
5 3 (0.76%) Multicast
5 3 (0.76%) OSPF
5 3 (0.76%) VLAN
5 3 (0.76%) VPN
5 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.50%) VoIP
6 2 (0.50%) WAAS
6 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.77%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.02%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.76%) Big Data
4 7 (1.76%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.26%) Power BI
6 5 (1.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.50%) DB2
9 2 (0.50%) MySQL
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.25%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 94 (23.68%) JIRA
2 78 (19.65%) Selenium
3 45 (11.34%) Jenkins
4 43 (10.83%) Postman
5 35 (8.82%) Git
6 33 (8.31%) Cucumber
7 30 (7.56%) GitLab
8 26 (6.55%) JUnit
9 20 (5.04%) Cypress.io
10 19 (4.79%) REST Assured
11 18 (4.53%) JMeter
12 14 (3.53%) Appium
13 13 (3.27%) SpecFlow
14 12 (3.02%) WebDriver
15 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
16 8 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
16 8 (2.02%) SoapUI
16 8 (2.02%) TestRail
17 7 (1.76%) Zephyr
18 6 (1.51%) Gatling
General
1 143 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.43%) Finance
3 57 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.85%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.80%) Banking
6 22 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.02%) Local Government
9 10 (2.52%) Military
10 9 (2.27%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.02%) Legal
12 7 (1.76%) Billing
12 7 (1.76%) Law
13 6 (1.51%) Back Office
13 6 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.51%) Retail
14 4 (1.01%) Electronics
15 3 (0.76%) Front Office
15 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (23.43%) Analyst
2 77 (19.40%) Tester
3 67 (16.88%) Test Analyst
4 44 (11.08%) Lead
5 43 (10.83%) Test Engineer
6 36 (9.07%) Senior
7 35 (8.82%) Consultant
8 23 (5.79%) Test Leader
9 22 (5.54%) QA Engineer
10 21 (5.29%) Automation Tester
11 16 (4.03%) Functional Consultant
11 16 (4.03%) Test Specialist
12 15 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.78%) Oracle Consultant
12 15 (3.78%) Test Automation Engineer
13 14 (3.53%) Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Oracle Analyst
14 13 (3.27%) QA Tester
14 13 (3.27%) SAP Consultant
14 13 (3.27%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.06%) Playwright
2 24 (6.05%) REST
3 15 (3.78%) pytest
3 15 (3.78%) XML
4 14 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (3.27%) RFC 2544
5 13 (3.27%) SOAP
5 13 (3.27%) Web Services
6 11 (2.77%) .NET
6 11 (2.77%) ADO
7 9 (2.27%) Node.js
8 8 (2.02%) HTML
9 7 (1.76%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (1.76%) Kafka
9 7 (1.76%) Middleware
9 7 (1.76%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.51%) CSS
10 6 (1.51%) RESTful
10 6 (1.51%) Spring
11 5 (1.26%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.78%) Mobile App
1 15 (3.78%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.27%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.52%) Fibre Optics
5 9 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) NHS
8 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.26%) PKI
8 5 (1.26%) SCADA
9 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.01%) PCIe
10 3 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.76%) Derivative
10 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.55%) Windows
2 15 (3.78%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.53%) Android
4 9 (2.27%) Linux
5 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (47.36%) Test Automation
2 129 (32.49%) Agile
3 125 (31.49%) User Acceptance Testing
4 93 (23.43%) CI/CD
4 93 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (22.92%) Test Strategy
6 84 (21.16%) DevOps
7 72 (18.14%) Software Testing
8 71 (17.88%) Regression Testing
9 70 (17.63%) Defect Management
10 66 (16.62%) Validation
11 55 (13.85%) Integration Testing
12 52 (13.10%) Scenario Testing
12 52 (13.10%) Test Management
13 45 (11.34%) End-to-End Testing
14 44 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.33%) Manual Testing
16 40 (10.08%) Scrum
17 39 (9.82%) Migration
18 38 (9.57%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.37%) SQL
2 55 (13.85%) Python
3 52 (13.10%) Java
4 40 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 34 (8.56%) C#
6 23 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.51%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.51%) VB.NET
8 5 (1.26%) C
8 5 (1.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.26%) Swift
9 4 (1.01%) Ada
9 4 (1.01%) Bash
10 3 (0.76%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.50%) COBOL
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
11 2 (0.50%) JCL
12 1 (0.25%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 75 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.56%) Degree
3 30 (7.56%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.52%) ISEB
7 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.01%) CCNP
10 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.50%) CCNA
12 2 (0.50%) MCSA
12 2 (0.50%) MCSE
12 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (33.50%) QA
2 31 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.26%) WCAG
5 4 (1.01%) NCSC
6 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) HL7
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.25%) DICOM
8 1 (0.25%) GAAP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) GxP
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS
8 1 (0.25%) ITGC
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (4.79%) Docker
2 7 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.52%) Ansible
2 10 (2.52%) HP ALM
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
4 5 (1.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.76%) Iperf
5 3 (0.76%) Nmap
5 3 (0.76%) Terraform
6 2 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.25%) SCOM
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (16.62%) Oracle
2 44 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.06%) SAP
4 19 (4.79%) Cisco
5 15 (3.78%) Splunk
6 14 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.27%) HP
8 11 (2.77%) Databricks
9 10 (2.52%) UiPath
10 7 (1.76%) VMware
11 6 (1.51%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.26%) webMethods
12 5 (1.26%) Workday
13 4 (1.01%) Optimizely
13 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.76%) Charles River
14 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.76%) Palo Alto