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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 235 189
Rank change year-on-year +14 -46 +96
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 385 301 500
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.04% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.18% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 195 343
10th Percentile £300 £306 £357
25th Percentile £360 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.98% +7.18%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £557
90th Percentile £638 £633 £664
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 34
10th Percentile £43.00 - £64.08
25th Percentile £65.75 - £82.94
Median hourly rate £67.50 £86.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.51% -4.44% +38.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £55.80 £90.00
% change year-on-year +20.97% -38.00% +38.73%

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 27,948 25,588 32,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.76% 88.59% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,756 15,817 22,467
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,828 844 1,393
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%
75th Percentile £53.81 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +32 174 £500 - 23
North of England -33 55 £400 -3.03% 17
South East -15 53 £475 +10.14% 31
Midlands -23 47 £425 +19.72% 6
West Midlands -16 36 £476 +34.01% 3
North West -22 29 £398 +10.42% 4
Yorkshire -37 23 £434 -10.97% 11
South West +6 22 £529 +2.13% 10
East of England -18 18 £400 +28.00% 11
East Midlands -19 11 £360 +1.05% 3
North East -7 3 £300 -23.81% 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 20 (5.19%) Confluence
2 12 (3.12%) SAS
3 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) CMS
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
Applications
1 14 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (5.19%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (4.94%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (3.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (3.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 12 (3.12%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (2.86%) Oracle Assets
6 10 (2.60%) Oracle Cash Management
6 10 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (2.08%) Aladdin
9 4 (1.04%) Loan IQ
10 3 (0.78%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 3 (0.78%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.78%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.78%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.52%) BambooHR
11 2 (0.52%) iTrent
11 2 (0.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 74 (19.22%) Azure
2 51 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (8.57%) AWS
4 17 (4.42%) OpenShift
5 16 (4.16%) GCP
5 16 (4.16%) GitHub
6 11 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (2.86%) OCI
6 11 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.60%) Tricentis Tosca
8 9 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.56%) SaaS
11 5 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.30%) Sentry
12 4 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.19%) Firewall
2 8 (2.08%) HTTP
3 5 (1.30%) DNS
4 4 (1.04%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.78%) 4G
5 3 (0.78%) 5G
5 3 (0.78%) BGP
5 3 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.78%) DHCP
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) MPLS
5 3 (0.78%) Multicast
5 3 (0.78%) OSPF
5 3 (0.78%) VLAN
5 3 (0.78%) VPN
5 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.52%) VoIP
6 2 (0.52%) WAAS
6 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (2.34%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.08%) MySQL
4 8 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.82%) Big Data
5 7 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.82%) Power BI
6 5 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (24.16%) JIRA
2 79 (20.52%) Selenium
3 53 (13.77%) Postman
4 45 (11.69%) Jenkins
5 38 (9.87%) Cucumber
6 35 (9.09%) GitLab
7 32 (8.31%) Git
8 25 (6.49%) JUnit
8 25 (6.49%) REST Assured
9 21 (5.45%) Cypress.io
10 17 (4.42%) JMeter
11 15 (3.90%) Appium
12 13 (3.38%) SpecFlow
12 13 (3.38%) TestRail
13 11 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (2.34%) WebDriver
15 8 (2.08%) Bitbucket
16 7 (1.82%) Zephyr
17 6 (1.56%) Toad
18 5 (1.30%) TestNG
General
1 151 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 93 (24.16%) Finance
3 59 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.75%) Banking
6 22 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.86%) General Ledger
9 10 (2.60%) Military
10 9 (2.34%) Local Government
11 7 (1.82%) Electronics
11 7 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.82%) Legal
12 6 (1.56%) Back Office
12 6 (1.56%) Retail
13 5 (1.30%) Billing
13 5 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.04%) Law
15 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 86 (22.34%) Analyst
2 73 (18.96%) Tester
3 63 (16.36%) Test Analyst
4 47 (12.21%) Test Engineer
5 43 (11.17%) Lead
6 37 (9.61%) Senior
7 31 (8.05%) Consultant
8 24 (6.23%) QA Engineer
9 21 (5.45%) Test Leader
10 20 (5.19%) Test Automation Engineer
11 19 (4.94%) Automation Tester
12 17 (4.42%) Test Specialist
13 15 (3.90%) Functional Consultant
14 14 (3.64%) Oracle Analyst
14 14 (3.64%) Oracle Consultant
15 13 (3.38%) QA Tester
16 12 (3.12%) Developer
16 12 (3.12%) Software Engineer
17 11 (2.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 11 (2.86%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.57%) Playwright
2 27 (7.01%) REST
3 15 (3.90%) .NET
3 15 (3.90%) pytest
4 14 (3.64%) XML
5 13 (3.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.12%) Node.js
6 12 (3.12%) SailPoint
7 11 (2.86%) ADO
7 11 (2.86%) Kafka
7 11 (2.86%) Middleware
8 10 (2.60%) RFC 2544
9 9 (2.34%) SOAP
10 8 (2.08%) Web Services
11 7 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (1.82%) HTML
11 7 (1.82%) RESTful
12 6 (1.56%) OpenID
12 6 (1.56%) Spring
12 6 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.68%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 12 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.82%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (1.30%) NHS
8 5 (1.30%) PKI
9 4 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.04%) PCIe
9 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.78%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.78%) SCADA
10 3 (0.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.01%) Windows
2 14 (3.64%) Android
2 14 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 12 (3.12%) Linux
4 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.04%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.52%) Unix
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (48.31%) Test Automation
2 128 (33.25%) Agile
3 119 (30.91%) User Acceptance Testing
4 101 (26.23%) CI/CD
5 94 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (23.64%) DevOps
7 82 (21.30%) Test Strategy
8 71 (18.44%) Software Testing
9 68 (17.66%) Validation
10 66 (17.14%) Regression Testing
11 63 (16.36%) Defect Management
12 62 (16.10%) Scenario Testing
13 48 (12.47%) Test Management
14 47 (12.21%) API Testing
14 47 (12.21%) Integration Testing
14 47 (12.21%) Manual Testing
15 44 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
16 42 (10.91%) System Integration Testing
17 39 (10.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.48%) SQL
2 63 (16.36%) Python
3 60 (15.58%) Java
4 48 (12.47%) JavaScript
5 32 (8.31%) C#
6 28 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.82%) Ada
7 7 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.56%) PHP
9 5 (1.30%) C
9 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.30%) Swift
9 5 (1.30%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.04%) Bash
11 3 (0.78%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.78%) Rust
12 2 (0.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.83%) Degree
4 26 (6.75%) ISTQB
5 14 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.60%) ISEB
8 8 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CCNP
11 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CCIE
12 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.52%) MCSA
12 2 (0.52%) MCSE
12 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (33.51%) QA
2 30 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.30%) WCAG
5 4 (1.04%) NCSC
6 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.26%) GAAP
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) ITGC
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (5.71%) Docker
2 7 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.60%) Ansible
2 10 (2.60%) Grafana
3 8 (2.08%) HP ALM
4 5 (1.30%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.78%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.78%) Iperf
6 3 (0.78%) Kiali
6 3 (0.78%) Nmap
6 3 (0.78%) Terraform
7 2 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.26%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.26%) SCOM
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (17.14%) Oracle
2 38 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.53%) SAP
4 18 (4.68%) Splunk
5 16 (4.16%) Cisco
6 12 (3.12%) Databricks
6 12 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.60%) HP
8 8 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.82%) VMware
10 6 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.56%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.56%) UiPath
11 5 (1.30%) webMethods
11 5 (1.30%) Workday
12 4 (1.04%) Avaloq
12 4 (1.04%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.78%) Charles River
13 3 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft