Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 5.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £277 - -
25th Percentile £324 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -23.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 95 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 89.36% 79.83% 98.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 63 78
10th Percentile £313 £353 £263
25th Percentile £373 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.38% +1.74% +14.94%
75th Percentile £583 £672 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile - £69.75 £17.68
25th Percentile £19.25 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £29.75 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £45.56 - £59.69
90th Percentile £55.58 £76.50 £79.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.71
% change year-on-year -66.86% +23.25% +12.69%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Farnborough over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Farnborough

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) JUnit
2 4 (50.00%) JMeter
2 4 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) RFC 2544
4 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Epics
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (25.00%) Case Management
3 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle