Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 4.85% - 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £350
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £363 £550
% change year-on-year -0.69% -34.09% +131.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 82 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 75.15% 92.13% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 60 104
10th Percentile £131 £199 £156
25th Percentile £305 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £638 £713 £705
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £444 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £18.33 - £12.80
25th Percentile £20.44 £23.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +14.29% -65.00%
75th Percentile £27.44 £24.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 - £57.80
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Leicester - 5 £360 - 1
Loughborough - 2 £360 -
Test Scripting
East Midlands

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (50.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) ERP Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (37.50%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (75.00%) ERP
2 6 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
3 4 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle