Test Scripting Contracts in Hampshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 87 60
Rank change year-on-year +29 -27 +57
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 15 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.83% 0.96% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.18% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £333 £395 £373
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £519 £413
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +25.76% -17.09%
75th Percentile £497 £556 £430
90th Percentile £525 £613 £437
South East median daily rate £406 £413 £420
% change year-on-year -1.52% -1.79% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +170.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 716 1,444 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 87.42% 81.72% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 803 707
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £456 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £662 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 167 102
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.70 £15.55
25th Percentile £32.94 £26.13 £21.09
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +98.34%
75th Percentile £62.81 £70.00 £67.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.88
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.08% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Hampshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Hampshire

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Hampshire over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Hampshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Basingstoke - 10 £475 - 3
Southampton +6 2 £350 -11.11% 2
Havant - 2 £438 -
Farnborough - 1 £280 - 1
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) JIRA
2 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (66.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA Agile
General
1 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Senior
1 8 (53.33%) Tester
2 7 (46.67%) Senior Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) SOAP
1 10 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
1 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
3 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 10 (66.67%) V-Model
3 10 (66.67%) Waterfall
4 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (46.67%) Programme Delivery
5 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (46.67%) Test Strategy
6 5 (33.33%) Manual Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
8 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 2 (13.33%) Test Management
8 2 (13.33%) User Stories
9 1 (6.67%) Case Management
9 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (6.67%) Service Management
9 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco