Test Scripting Contracts in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 243 266
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +4
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 270 360 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 0.98% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.13% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 250 322
10th Percentile £245 £312 £307
25th Percentile £350 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -4.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £588
90th Percentile £625 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 23
10th Percentile £19.16 - £46.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £51.07
Median hourly rate £85.00 £90.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +44.00% +39.00%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £82.25
90th Percentile £87.50 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £90.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +44.00% +35.02%

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 22,072 31,929 45,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.18% 86.59% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,449 20,948 31,615
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 2,243 1,590
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 5 May 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 5 May 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 +7 120 £475 -3.80% 89
Midlands +25 40 £260 -38.10% 20
South East +25 39 £400 -15.79% 56
North of England +14 39 £460 +2.22% 30
West Midlands +33 33 £235 -47.54% 16
North West +16 29 £481 +6.94% 24
South West +23 17 £475 -10.59% 17
East of England +23 8 £500 +60.00% 16
Yorkshire +7 8 £275 -35.29% 3
East Midlands +6 7 £391 +7.86% 4
North East -4 3 £420 -6.67% 3
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 14 (5.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.48%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.81%) SAP HR
1 13 (4.81%) SAP Payroll
2 12 (4.44%) SAP CO
2 12 (4.44%) SAP FI
3 11 (4.07%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.85%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 5 (1.85%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.85%) SAP PS
6 3 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.37%) BambooHR
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.07%) Azure
2 36 (13.33%) AWS
3 27 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.22%) GitHub
5 5 (1.85%) BrowserStack
5 5 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.11%) GCP
7 3 (1.11%) OCI
7 3 (1.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.11%) SaaS
7 3 (1.11%) Serverless
7 3 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) Firewall
2 3 (1.11%) DHCP
2 3 (1.11%) DNS
2 3 (1.11%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.11%) HTTP
3 2 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.74%) LAN
3 2 (0.74%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.37%) BGP
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.37%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) Skype
4 1 (0.37%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.37%) SSH
4 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.37%) VoIP
4 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.22%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.11%) MySQL
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.74%) Big Data
5 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.74%) Power BI
5 2 (0.74%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (24.81%) JIRA
2 54 (20.00%) Selenium
3 41 (15.19%) Jenkins
4 37 (13.70%) Git
5 28 (10.37%) Postman
6 25 (9.26%) REST Assured
7 24 (8.89%) JMeter
8 21 (7.78%) Cypress.io
9 18 (6.67%) Cucumber
10 13 (4.81%) SoapUI
11 12 (4.44%) GitLab
11 12 (4.44%) JUnit
12 10 (3.70%) Appium
13 9 (3.33%) LoadRunner
14 8 (2.96%) TestNG
15 7 (2.59%) Zephyr
16 5 (1.85%) WebDriver
17 4 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
17 4 (1.48%) Subversion
17 4 (1.48%) TestComplete
General
1 81 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.41%) Finance
3 42 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.30%) Banking
6 8 (2.96%) General Ledger
6 8 (2.96%) Retail
7 7 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.85%) Military
9 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Law
9 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (15.93%) Analyst
1 43 (15.93%) Test Engineer
2 42 (15.56%) Tester
3 29 (10.74%) Senior
4 26 (9.63%) Test Analyst
5 22 (8.15%) Lead
6 21 (7.78%) Consultant
7 19 (7.04%) Developer
8 16 (5.93%) Support Assistant
9 15 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.56%) QA Engineer
10 14 (5.19%) Test Manager
11 13 (4.81%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
13 11 (4.07%) Automation Tester
13 11 (4.07%) Test Automation Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) QA Tester
15 8 (2.96%) SAP Developer
16 7 (2.59%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.41%) REST
2 18 (6.67%) Playwright
3 13 (4.81%) pytest
4 11 (4.07%) .NET
4 11 (4.07%) XML
5 9 (3.33%) SOAP
5 9 (3.33%) Web Services
6 8 (2.96%) HTML
6 8 (2.96%) RESTful
7 6 (2.22%) Kafka
8 5 (1.85%) CSS
8 5 (1.85%) JSON
9 4 (1.48%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.48%) RFC 2544
10 3 (1.11%) PySpark
10 3 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
11 2 (0.74%) Apache POI
11 2 (0.74%) JDBC
11 2 (0.74%) React
11 2 (0.74%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.96%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.22%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.22%) Operational Technology
3 5 (1.85%) FPGA
3 5 (1.85%) VHDL
4 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.48%) PKI
5 3 (1.11%) PCIe
5 3 (1.11%) PDA
5 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.11%) SCADA
6 2 (0.74%) CMDB
6 2 (0.74%) EPoS
6 2 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.74%) NHS
6 2 (0.74%) Online Banking
6 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.04%) Windows
2 10 (3.70%) Linux
3 7 (2.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.11%) Android
4 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.11%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.74%) AIX
5 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.74%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (48.89%) Test Automation
2 86 (31.85%) Agile
3 72 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 54 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (19.26%) Test Strategy
6 44 (16.30%) DevOps
7 42 (15.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 38 (14.07%) API Testing
9 35 (12.96%) Validation
10 33 (12.22%) Manual Testing
10 33 (12.22%) Regression Testing
10 33 (12.22%) Software Testing
11 32 (11.85%) Performance Testing
12 30 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (10.74%) Scrum
14 23 (8.52%) Defect Management
15 22 (8.15%) BDD
15 22 (8.15%) Scenario Testing
16 20 (7.41%) Integration Testing
17 19 (7.04%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.70%) SQL
2 50 (18.52%) Python
3 41 (15.19%) Java
4 26 (9.63%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.30%) C#
6 8 (2.96%) ABAP
7 7 (2.59%) C
8 6 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.85%) Tcl
10 4 (1.48%) Bash
11 3 (1.11%) Perl
11 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.74%) RPG
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) Swift
13 1 (0.37%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.37%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 18 (6.67%) Degree
5 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.85%) ISEB
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.11%) CEH
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) MCSA
9 2 (0.74%) MCSE
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.37%) CCNA
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (26.67%) QA
2 17 (6.30%) SLA
3 14 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) SEPA
5 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.59%) Docker
2 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.22%) Kibana
1 6 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.85%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.74%) CA Wily
3 2 (0.74%) Perfmon
3 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.37%) OPNET
4 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (15.93%) SAP
2 35 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.41%) Oracle
4 16 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.70%) Workday
6 8 (2.96%) Cisco
6 8 (2.96%) Google
7 7 (2.59%) HP
7 7 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.85%) VMware
9 4 (1.48%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.48%) Reuters
9 4 (1.48%) webMethods
10 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.74%) Ariba
10 2 (0.74%) Brio
10 2 (0.74%) Databricks
10 2 (0.74%) Splunk
10 2 (0.74%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft