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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 210 231
Rank change year-on-year -61 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 421 350 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.28% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.41% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 240 265
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £368 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £635 £633 £627
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +10.47% -7.03% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 10
10th Percentile £25.04 £19.16 £34.31
25th Percentile £40.00 £38.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +51.35% -39.94%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.00 £71.88
90th Percentile - £87.50 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +64.71% -44.81%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -68 145 £475 -5.00% 22
South East -55 73 £483 +15.34% 22
Midlands -36 63 £363 +3.71% 11
North of England -73 55 £452 +5.24% 8
West Midlands -56 51 £360 +53.19% 5
South West -16 44 £538 - 7
East of England -1 33 £74 -80.90% 3
Yorkshire -38 26 £452 +7.50% 4
North West -66 24 £401 -6.53% 4
East Midlands -10 12 £638 +72.06% 6
North East -32 5 £453 -1.52%
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 47 (11.16%) Confluence
2 10 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.66%) SAS
4 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (7.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.61%) SAP Payroll
3 7 (1.66%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.43%) Aladdin
4 6 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (1.19%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.95%) HFM
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (0.95%) SAP GTS
6 4 (0.95%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.95%) SAP VC
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 89 (21.14%) Azure
2 69 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (10.69%) AWS
4 19 (4.51%) OCI
5 18 (4.28%) GitHub
6 11 (2.61%) GCP
6 11 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.19%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.19%) SaaS
9 5 (1.19%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.95%) Lucidchart
10 4 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.66%) HTTP
2 5 (1.19%) DNS
2 5 (1.19%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.19%) Wireless
3 4 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.71%) Firewall
4 3 (0.71%) LAN
4 3 (0.71%) WAN
5 2 (0.48%) BGP
5 2 (0.48%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.48%) MPLS
5 2 (0.48%) OSPF
5 2 (0.48%) SAN
5 2 (0.48%) VLAN
5 2 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) WAAS
6 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.55%) Oracle Reports
2 30 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.38%) Power BI
4 8 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.66%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.71%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.48%) Base SAS
9 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.48%) Metadata
9 2 (0.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 142 (33.73%) JIRA
2 57 (13.54%) Postman
3 47 (11.16%) Selenium
4 38 (9.03%) Jenkins
5 33 (7.84%) Git
6 29 (6.89%) Zephyr
7 24 (5.70%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.75%) GitLab
8 20 (4.75%) JMeter
8 20 (4.75%) REST Assured
9 13 (3.09%) LoadRunner
10 12 (2.85%) JUnit
11 11 (2.61%) Gatling
11 11 (2.61%) WebDriver
12 10 (2.38%) Cypress.io
13 9 (2.14%) SpecFlow
14 8 (1.90%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.66%) NeoLoad
15 7 (1.66%) Rational DOORS
16 5 (1.19%) TestRail
General
1 166 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (19.24%) Finance
4 45 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.84%) Banking
6 23 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.38%) Legal
10 9 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.90%) Automotive
12 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.43%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.43%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.43%) Military
14 5 (1.19%) Retail
15 4 (0.95%) Billing
16 3 (0.71%) Electronics
16 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (23.04%) Analyst
2 77 (18.29%) Tester
3 50 (11.88%) Lead
4 48 (11.40%) Test Engineer
5 47 (11.16%) Test Analyst
6 40 (9.50%) Consultant
7 29 (6.89%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.70%) Test Leader
9 23 (5.46%) QA Tester
10 21 (4.99%) Senior
11 20 (4.75%) Test Manager
12 19 (4.51%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.28%) Test Automation Engineer
14 16 (3.80%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.56%) Automation Tester
15 15 (3.56%) Principal Software Engineer
15 15 (3.56%) QA Engineer
16 14 (3.33%) Developer
17 12 (2.85%) QA Analyst
18 10 (2.38%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.84%) Playwright
2 24 (5.70%) REST
3 13 (3.09%) .NET
4 12 (2.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.61%) React
6 10 (2.38%) pytest
7 8 (1.90%) HTML
7 8 (1.90%) Kafka
8 7 (1.66%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.66%) ADO
8 7 (1.66%) SailPoint
8 7 (1.66%) SOAP
9 5 (1.19%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.19%) CSS
9 5 (1.19%) Middleware
9 5 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.95%) RESTful
10 4 (0.95%) Swagger
10 4 (0.95%) Web Services
11 3 (0.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (5.46%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.43%) CMDB
10 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.19%) FPGA
11 5 (1.19%) PACS
11 5 (1.19%) PCIe
11 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.19%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.70%) Windows
2 18 (4.28%) Linux
3 6 (1.43%) Android
4 5 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.95%) VMS
5 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) AIX
6 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (42.99%) Test Automation
2 159 (37.77%) Agile
3 130 (30.88%) User Acceptance Testing
4 99 (23.52%) Validation
5 92 (21.85%) DevOps
6 89 (21.14%) Scenario Testing
7 87 (20.67%) Migration
8 85 (20.19%) End-to-End Testing
9 84 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (17.81%) CI/CD
11 74 (17.58%) Software Testing
11 74 (17.58%) Test Strategy
12 70 (16.63%) Data Migration
12 70 (16.63%) Test Management
13 67 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (15.20%) Integration Testing
16 62 (14.73%) Defect Management
17 55 (13.06%) Regression Testing
18 54 (12.83%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.96%) SQL
2 56 (13.30%) Python
3 48 (11.40%) Java
4 28 (6.65%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.18%) C#
6 24 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.90%) ABAP
8 7 (1.66%) C++
9 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.19%) C
10 5 (1.19%) Scala
11 3 (0.71%) Cypher
11 3 (0.71%) Groovy
11 3 (0.71%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.71%) Ruby
11 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.48%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (33.25%) Security Cleared
2 82 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.69%) DV Cleared
3 45 (10.69%) ISTQB
4 28 (6.65%) Degree
5 13 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.19%) ACCA
8 5 (1.19%) CIMA
9 3 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.48%) CCNA
10 2 (0.48%) CCNP
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ISEB
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (29.93%) QA
2 27 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.14%) NCSC
5 7 (1.66%) GRC
6 6 (1.43%) SLA
7 5 (1.19%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.95%) IFRS
9 3 (0.71%) DICOM
9 3 (0.71%) HL7
9 3 (0.71%) WCAG
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
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
System Software
1 11 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.90%) Docker
3 6 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.95%) vSphere
5 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.48%) Firmware
6 2 (0.48%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 19 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.14%) HP ALM
3 7 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.43%) Grafana
4 6 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.95%) Ansible
5 4 (0.95%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Puppet
6 2 (0.48%) Terraform
7 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.24%) Kiali
7 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (17.81%) Oracle
2 48 (11.40%) SAP
3 33 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.85%) HP
7 10 (2.38%) Workday
8 7 (1.66%) Databricks
8 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.66%) Google
9 6 (1.43%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.43%) Talend
9 6 (1.43%) VMware
10 5 (1.19%) Conga
10 5 (1.19%) Denodo
10 5 (1.19%) GoCardless
11 4 (0.95%) Cisco
11 4 (0.95%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.95%) Sage
11 4 (0.95%) Tagetik