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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 235 197
Rank change year-on-year +41 -38 +80
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 377 337 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.03% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.20% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 225 378
10th Percentile £290 £306 £350
25th Percentile £373 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 29
10th Percentile £29.17 £38.38 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.88 £41.56 £76.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -45.83% +63.64%
75th Percentile £84.38 £56.56 -
90th Percentile £87.75 £60.13 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £90.00
% change year-on-year +58.48% -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 25,234 28,138 37,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.06% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,038 17,541 26,048
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 1,306 1,424
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +39 175 £500 -2.44% 61
South East +35 68 £475 +15.15% 58
North of England -16 50 £420 -16.00% 17
North West -5 32 £425 +3.03% 11
Midlands -6 32 £350 -2.44% 28
South West +23 28 £538 +2.38% 10
West Midlands -8 23 £281 -22.41% 13
Yorkshire -22 14 £420 -23.64% 6
East of England +9 12 £375 +20.00% 16
East Midlands -2 9 £360 +2.86% 14
North East -5 5 £420 +0.60%
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.80%) CICS
3 3 (0.80%) CMS
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (6.10%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (3.98%) Oracle General Ledger
4 14 (3.71%) Oracle EBS R12
4 14 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (3.18%) Oracle Assets
6 10 (2.65%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (2.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 8 (2.12%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 7 (1.86%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (1.59%) SAP PS
10 5 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.53%) SAP MDG
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.53%) Azure
2 36 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (7.96%) AWS
4 12 (3.18%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (2.65%) OCI
7 9 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (2.12%) GitHub
9 6 (1.59%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.59%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.33%) Serverless
11 4 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.06%) PaaS
11 4 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Sentry
12 3 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
13 2 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.53%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.37%) Firewall
2 7 (1.86%) LAN
3 6 (1.59%) HTTP
4 5 (1.33%) DNS
5 4 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (0.80%) 4G
6 3 (0.80%) 5G
6 3 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.80%) DHCP
6 3 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.80%) MPLS
6 3 (0.80%) Multicast
6 3 (0.80%) OSPF
6 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) VLAN
6 3 (0.80%) VoIP
6 3 (0.80%) VPN
6 3 (0.80%) WAN
6 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.53%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.33%) Big Data
5 5 (1.33%) Power BI
6 4 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.80%) DB2
7 3 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.80%) MySQL
8 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.27%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (24.93%) JIRA
2 53 (14.06%) Selenium
3 43 (11.41%) Jenkins
4 32 (8.49%) Postman
5 26 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 22 (5.84%) Git
7 19 (5.04%) Cypress.io
7 19 (5.04%) REST Assured
8 16 (4.24%) JMeter
8 16 (4.24%) SoapUI
9 15 (3.98%) GitLab
9 15 (3.98%) JUnit
10 14 (3.71%) Zephyr
11 11 (2.92%) WebDriver
12 10 (2.65%) Appium
12 10 (2.65%) LoadRunner
12 10 (2.65%) TestNG
13 8 (2.12%) Maven
13 8 (2.12%) TestRail
14 7 (1.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 112 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 94 (24.93%) Finance
3 55 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.43%) Banking
6 18 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.24%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.98%) General Ledger
9 13 (3.45%) Local Government
10 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.86%) Billing
11 7 (1.86%) Military
12 6 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.59%) Law
12 6 (1.59%) Legal
12 6 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.59%) Retail
13 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.06%) Back Office
14 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (23.87%) Analyst
2 76 (20.16%) Tester
3 60 (15.92%) Test Analyst
4 35 (9.28%) Consultant
4 35 (9.28%) Test Engineer
5 32 (8.49%) Lead
6 30 (7.96%) Senior
7 25 (6.63%) Test Manager
8 22 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.77%) Automation Tester
10 17 (4.51%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.51%) Test Leader
11 15 (3.98%) Oracle Consultant
11 15 (3.98%) QA Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) Functional Consultant
13 12 (3.18%) Oracle Analyst
14 11 (2.92%) Developer
15 10 (2.65%) Quality Engineer
15 10 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
15 10 (2.65%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.43%) Playwright
2 21 (5.57%) SOAP
3 17 (4.51%) RFC 2544
4 16 (4.24%) Web Services
4 16 (4.24%) XML
5 12 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (2.92%) .NET
6 11 (2.92%) REST
7 8 (2.12%) HTML
8 5 (1.33%) ADO
8 5 (1.33%) CSS
8 5 (1.33%) Middleware
9 4 (1.06%) Kafka
9 4 (1.06%) RESTful
9 4 (1.06%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.80%) Hibernate
10 3 (0.80%) JSON
10 3 (0.80%) Spring
10 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.51%) Data Centre
2 14 (3.71%) Fibre Optics
3 12 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.92%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.86%) PKI
6 7 (1.86%) SCADA
7 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.33%) NHS
8 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.80%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.80%) PCIe
10 3 (0.80%) PDA
10 3 (0.80%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.51%) Windows
2 10 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.39%) Android
4 7 (1.86%) Linux
5 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.80%) Unix
6 3 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (40.32%) Test Automation
2 110 (29.18%) User Acceptance Testing
3 108 (28.65%) Agile
4 82 (21.75%) Test Strategy
5 73 (19.36%) CI/CD
6 70 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (16.71%) DevOps
8 56 (14.85%) Software Testing
9 52 (13.79%) Defect Management
9 52 (13.79%) Validation
10 49 (13.00%) End-to-End Testing
11 48 (12.73%) Regression Testing
12 47 (12.47%) Scenario Testing
13 41 (10.88%) Test Management
14 36 (9.55%) Performance Testing
14 36 (9.55%) Test Planning
15 35 (9.28%) Integration Testing
16 32 (8.49%) Scrum
17 30 (7.96%) API Testing
17 30 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.92%) SQL
2 46 (12.20%) Java
3 41 (10.88%) Python
4 31 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.63%) C#
6 5 (1.33%) Bash
6 5 (1.33%) C
6 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.06%) Swift
8 3 (0.80%) COBOL
8 3 (0.80%) JCL
8 3 (0.80%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.53%) Groovy
9 2 (0.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Korn
10 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 95 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 67 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 25 (6.63%) Degree
5 17 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.59%) CCNP
8 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.06%) CCNA
10 4 (1.06%) ISEB
11 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCIE
12 2 (0.53%) MCSA
12 2 (0.53%) MCSE
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.27%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (28.38%) QA
2 32 (8.49%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.65%) SLA
4 8 (2.12%) WCAG
5 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.80%) GDPR
6 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.80%) NCSC
7 2 (0.53%) PMO
7 2 (0.53%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) DICOM
8 1 (0.27%) ECSS
8 1 (0.27%) GAAP
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (2.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.12%) HP ALM
2 6 (1.59%) Ansible
3 5 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.80%) Iperf
4 3 (0.80%) Kibana
4 3 (0.80%) Nmap
5 2 (0.53%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.53%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.27%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.27%) OPNET
6 1 (0.27%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Rsyslog
6 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 62 (16.45%) Oracle
2 47 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.43%) SAP
4 24 (6.37%) Cisco
5 12 (3.18%) HP
6 11 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.92%) Splunk
7 10 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.86%) UiPath
9 6 (1.59%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.33%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.33%) VMware
11 4 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.06%) Reuters
12 3 (0.80%) Brio
12 3 (0.80%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.80%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.80%) Juniper
12 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds