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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 244 179
Rank change year-on-year +22 -65 +103
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 367 325 580
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.30% 1.02% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.18% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 213 406
10th Percentile £293 £306 £355
25th Percentile £368 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £489
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 30
10th Percentile £42.50 £38.38 £76.53
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.56 £83.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £48.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -45.83% +63.64%
75th Percentile £69.38 £56.56 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.13 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £31.55 £90.00
% change year-on-year +113.95% -64.94% +63.64%

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 25,579 27,548 36,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.91% 86.52% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,198 16,774 25,253
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,630 1,072 1,491
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%
75th Percentile £44.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.59 £43.90
% change year-on-year -36.66% -9.82% +35.08%

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 October 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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +27 157 £500 -4.76% 90
South East +24 66 £475 +15.15% 80
North of England -25 53 £400 -20.00% 15
Midlands -15 35 £360 +0.35% 20
North West -1 34 £400 - 14
South West +14 27 £538 +6.44% 28
West Midlands -14 22 £425 +20.57% 13
East of England -3 17 £400 +28.00% 23
Yorkshire -28 16 £420 -23.64% 1
East Midlands -7 13 £360 -0.69% 6
North East -4 4 £360 -15.29%
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 12 (3.27%) Confluence
2 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.82%) CICS
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.82%) SAS
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (6.27%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (5.72%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (3.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (3.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 10 (2.72%) Oracle Assets
4 10 (2.72%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (2.18%) Oracle Cash Management
6 8 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.91%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (1.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.54%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.27%) SAP PS
10 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.44%) Azure
2 37 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (8.17%) AWS
4 11 (3.00%) OCI
4 11 (3.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (1.91%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.91%) GitHub
7 5 (1.36%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.36%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.36%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.36%) Sentry
8 4 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.09%) PaaS
8 4 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (1.09%) Serverless
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.08%) Firewall
2 7 (1.91%) HTTP
2 7 (1.91%) LAN
3 5 (1.36%) DNS
4 4 (1.09%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.82%) 4G
5 3 (0.82%) 5G
5 3 (0.82%) BGP
5 3 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.82%) DHCP
5 3 (0.82%) MPLS
5 3 (0.82%) Multicast
5 3 (0.82%) OSPF
5 3 (0.82%) VLAN
5 3 (0.82%) VPN
5 3 (0.82%) WAN
5 3 (0.82%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.54%) VoIP
6 2 (0.54%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (2.45%) NoSQL
2 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.91%) Big Data
4 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.36%) Power BI
5 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.82%) DB2
7 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.54%) MySQL
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 85 (23.16%) JIRA
2 57 (15.53%) Selenium
3 36 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.81%) Postman
4 30 (8.17%) Cucumber
5 24 (6.54%) Git
6 19 (5.18%) Cypress.io
7 18 (4.90%) GitLab
7 18 (4.90%) REST Assured
8 17 (4.63%) JUnit
9 11 (3.00%) Appium
9 11 (3.00%) JMeter
9 11 (3.00%) WebDriver
10 10 (2.72%) SoapUI
10 10 (2.72%) Zephyr
11 9 (2.45%) TestNG
12 8 (2.18%) Bitbucket
12 8 (2.18%) Maven
12 8 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (2.18%) TestRail
General
1 111 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.71%) Finance
3 58 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.08%) Banking
6 19 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.90%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.54%) Local Government
9 12 (3.27%) General Ledger
10 10 (2.72%) Military
11 8 (2.18%) Law
12 7 (1.91%) Billing
12 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.91%) Legal
13 6 (1.63%) Back Office
13 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.36%) Electronics
15 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (21.53%) Analyst
2 68 (18.53%) Tester
3 53 (14.44%) Test Analyst
4 42 (11.44%) Test Engineer
5 35 (9.54%) Lead
6 32 (8.72%) Consultant
7 31 (8.45%) Senior
8 23 (6.27%) Test Manager
9 19 (5.18%) Business Analyst
10 16 (4.36%) Test Leader
11 15 (4.09%) Functional Consultant
11 15 (4.09%) Oracle Consultant
12 14 (3.81%) Automation Tester
12 14 (3.81%) QA Engineer
13 13 (3.54%) Oracle Analyst
13 13 (3.54%) QA Tester
14 11 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
15 10 (2.72%) Developer
15 10 (2.72%) Network Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.54%) Playwright
2 19 (5.18%) RFC 2544
3 15 (4.09%) SOAP
4 14 (3.81%) Web Services
5 13 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.27%) REST
7 11 (3.00%) XML
8 8 (2.18%) .NET
9 7 (1.91%) ADO
9 7 (1.91%) HTML
10 5 (1.36%) CSS
10 5 (1.36%) Middleware
10 5 (1.36%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.09%) Node.js
11 4 (1.09%) PySpark
11 4 (1.09%) pytest
11 4 (1.09%) RESTful
12 3 (0.82%) Hibernate
12 3 (0.82%) JSON
12 3 (0.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.18%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.36%) Fibre Optics
3 14 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.91%) SCADA
8 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.36%) NHS
8 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.36%) PKI
8 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.09%) PCIe
10 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.82%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.27%) Windows
2 11 (3.00%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.72%) Android
4 7 (1.91%) Linux
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.09%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.82%) Unix
7 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (42.23%) Test Automation
2 112 (30.52%) User Acceptance Testing
3 98 (26.70%) Agile
4 91 (24.80%) Test Strategy
5 76 (20.71%) CI/CD
6 73 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (17.98%) DevOps
8 59 (16.08%) Software Testing
9 53 (14.44%) Defect Management
9 53 (14.44%) Validation
10 52 (14.17%) Regression Testing
11 51 (13.90%) End-to-End Testing
11 51 (13.90%) Scenario Testing
12 39 (10.63%) Test Management
13 33 (8.99%) Integration Testing
13 33 (8.99%) Performance Testing
14 32 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (8.45%) Migration
15 31 (8.45%) Test Planning
16 29 (7.90%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.71%) SQL
2 42 (11.44%) Python
3 38 (10.35%) Java
4 26 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.72%) C#
6 6 (1.63%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.63%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.36%) C
7 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.36%) Swift
7 5 (1.36%) VB.NET
8 4 (1.09%) Ada
8 4 (1.09%) Bash
9 3 (0.82%) COBOL
9 3 (0.82%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.82%) JCL
10 2 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.27%) Korn
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 98 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.36%) Degree
4 25 (6.81%) ISTQB
5 12 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.36%) CCNP
8 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.09%) ISEB
10 3 (0.82%) CCNA
10 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CCIE
11 2 (0.54%) MCSA
11 2 (0.54%) MCSE
11 2 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.27%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (30.79%) QA
2 32 (8.72%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.18%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.18%) WCAG
4 5 (1.36%) SLA
5 3 (0.82%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) NCSC
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) SEPA
7 1 (0.27%) DICOM
7 1 (0.27%) ECSS
7 1 (0.27%) GAAP
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (2.72%) Docker
2 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.00%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.63%) Ansible
4 5 (1.36%) Grafana
5 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.82%) Iperf
5 3 (0.82%) Nmap
6 2 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) OPNET
7 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (16.08%) Oracle
2 38 (10.35%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.08%) SAP
4 25 (6.81%) Cisco
5 14 (3.81%) HP
5 14 (3.81%) Splunk
6 10 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.45%) UiPath
8 6 (1.63%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.09%) Databricks
10 4 (1.09%) VMware
10 4 (1.09%) Workday
11 3 (0.82%) Brio
11 3 (0.82%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.82%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.82%) Palo Alto