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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 213 244
Rank change year-on-year -50 +31 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 412 315 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.25% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.36% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 219 258
10th Percentile £317 £261 £311
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £463 £429 £465
% change year-on-year +7.81% -7.74% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 13
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.16 £37.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £38.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -35.06%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -35.06%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -58 151 £475 - 13
South East -45 64 £491 +20.86% 21
Midlands -46 61 £362 +3.29% 9
North of England -54 61 £450 - 8
West Midlands -51 49 £360 +53.19% 3
South West -20 39 £538 - 4
East of England -9 31 £350 -9.68% 6
Yorkshire -20 30 £452 +7.50% 5
North West -57 26 £400 -11.11% 3
East Midlands -9 12 £638 +72.06% 6
North East -34 5 £453 -1.52% 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 38 (9.22%) Confluence
2 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (7.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.43%) SAP Payroll
3 8 (1.94%) Aladdin
4 7 (1.70%) Loan IQ
5 6 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.97%) HFM
7 4 (0.97%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (0.97%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.97%) SAP GTS
7 4 (0.97%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.97%) SAP VC
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.60%) Azure
2 69 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (10.68%) AWS
4 17 (4.13%) OCI
5 16 (3.88%) GitHub
6 13 (3.16%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (2.43%) GCP
7 10 (2.43%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.21%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.21%) SaaS
11 4 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.97%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.70%) HTTP
2 5 (1.21%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.21%) Firewall
2 5 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.21%) Wireless
3 4 (0.97%) Network Security
4 2 (0.49%) BGP
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
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%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.25%) Oracle Reports
2 30 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.43%) Power BI
4 9 (2.18%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.70%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.49%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.49%) Metadata
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.24%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 135 (32.77%) JIRA
2 59 (14.32%) Postman
3 46 (11.17%) Selenium
4 38 (9.22%) Jenkins
5 32 (7.77%) Git
6 29 (7.04%) Zephyr
7 23 (5.58%) Cucumber
8 21 (5.10%) REST Assured
9 20 (4.85%) GitLab
10 19 (4.61%) JMeter
11 13 (3.16%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.91%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.91%) JUnit
12 12 (2.91%) LoadRunner
13 10 (2.43%) Gatling
14 9 (2.18%) SpecFlow
15 8 (1.94%) Bitbucket
16 7 (1.70%) Rational DOORS
17 6 (1.46%) NeoLoad
18 5 (1.21%) TestRail
General
1 156 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.42%) Finance
3 78 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.25%) Banking
6 23 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.18%) Legal
10 8 (1.94%) Automotive
11 7 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.46%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.46%) Military
13 5 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.21%) Retail
14 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.73%) Billing
15 3 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 102 (24.76%) Analyst
2 79 (19.17%) Tester
3 51 (12.38%) Test Analyst
4 46 (11.17%) Lead
5 43 (10.44%) Test Engineer
6 31 (7.52%) Consultant
7 30 (7.28%) Business Analyst
8 27 (6.55%) Test Leader
9 23 (5.58%) Senior
10 22 (5.34%) QA Tester
10 22 (5.34%) Test Manager
11 20 (4.85%) Automation Tester
12 17 (4.13%) Test Automation Engineer
13 16 (3.88%) QA Engineer
14 15 (3.64%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.40%) Developer
16 12 (2.91%) Project Officer
16 12 (2.91%) QA Analyst
17 11 (2.67%) Principal Engineer
17 11 (2.67%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.25%) Playwright
2 24 (5.83%) REST
3 14 (3.40%) .NET
4 12 (2.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.67%) React
6 10 (2.43%) Kafka
6 10 (2.43%) pytest
7 8 (1.94%) HTML
8 7 (1.70%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.70%) ADO
8 7 (1.70%) Middleware
8 7 (1.70%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.21%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.21%) CSS
9 5 (1.21%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.97%) SOAP
10 4 (0.97%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.73%) PySpark
11 3 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.55%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.61%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.21%) CMDB
10 5 (1.21%) FPGA
10 5 (1.21%) PACS
10 5 (1.21%) PCIe
10 5 (1.21%) Tandem
11 4 (0.97%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.61%) Windows
2 15 (3.64%) Linux
3 6 (1.46%) Android
4 5 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.97%) VMS
6 2 (0.49%) AIX
6 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.49%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (42.72%) Test Automation
2 162 (39.32%) Agile
3 126 (30.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 95 (23.06%) Validation
5 93 (22.57%) DevOps
6 86 (20.87%) Migration
6 86 (20.87%) Scenario Testing
7 79 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (18.93%) End-to-End Testing
9 74 (17.96%) Test Management
10 72 (17.48%) CI/CD
11 69 (16.75%) Data Migration
11 69 (16.75%) Software Testing
12 68 (16.50%) Integration Testing
13 67 (16.26%) Test Strategy
14 65 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 60 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (13.59%) Defect Management
17 54 (13.11%) Manual Testing
17 54 (13.11%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.26%) SQL
2 52 (12.62%) Python
3 49 (11.89%) Java
4 30 (7.28%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.80%) C#
6 26 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.70%) ABAP
8 6 (1.46%) C++
8 6 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.21%) C
9 5 (1.21%) Scala
10 3 (0.73%) Cypher
10 3 (0.73%) Groovy
10 3 (0.73%) Ruby
10 3 (0.73%) Rust
11 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.49%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 125 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 80 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.65%) ISTQB
4 34 (8.25%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.80%) Degree
6 13 (3.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.97%) ACCA
9 4 (0.97%) CIMA
10 3 (0.73%) ISEB
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) CCNP
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (29.85%) QA
2 22 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.18%) NCSC
5 7 (1.70%) GRC
6 6 (1.46%) SLA
7 5 (1.21%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.97%) IFRS
9 3 (0.73%) DICOM
9 3 (0.73%) HL7
9 3 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.49%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) GDPR
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.24%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.43%) Docker
3 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) SRDF
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.18%) HP ALM
3 7 (1.70%) Grafana
3 7 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.46%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.97%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Kibana
5 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.73%) Kiali
7 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.49%) Puppet
7 2 (0.49%) Terraform
8 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (17.96%) Oracle
2 48 (11.65%) SAP
3 32 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 19 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.16%) Workday
7 12 (2.91%) HP
8 9 (2.18%) Databricks
9 6 (1.46%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.46%) Google
9 6 (1.46%) Talend
10 5 (1.21%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.21%) Conga
10 5 (1.21%) Denodo
10 5 (1.21%) GoCardless
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco
11 4 (0.97%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.97%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.97%) Sage
11 4 (0.97%) Tagetik