Test Scripting Contracts in Leeds

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 55 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +14
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 6 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.29% 1.00% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.16% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile - £381 £453
25th Percentile £263 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £541
90th Percentile £488 - £779
West Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -50.00% +10.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Brio