Test Scripting Contracts in London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 234 230 304
Rank change year-on-year -4 +74 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 119 164 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.04% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 119 127
10th Percentile £353 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £732 £760
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £30.19 -
25th Percentile - £50.18 £61.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £85.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% +36.00% +35.02%
75th Percentile - £86.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -10 26 £475 -13.64% 5
South London - 5 £380 - 1
West London +5 2 £315 -49.76% 8
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.04%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) IIS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (7.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (4.20%) SAP CO
2 5 (4.20%) SAP FI
2 5 (4.20%) SAP PS
3 4 (3.36%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.68%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (1.68%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.84%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.84%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.84%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.85%) AWS
2 17 (14.29%) Azure
3 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.20%) BrowserStack
4 5 (4.20%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (3.36%) GitHub
6 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.52%) SaaS
6 3 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.68%) OCI
7 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.68%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) HTTP
1 1 (0.84%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.84%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.84%) DB2
3 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.84%) MS Access
3 1 (0.84%) MySQL
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.84%) Power BI
3 1 (0.84%) QlikView
3 1 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 32 (26.89%) JIRA
2 31 (26.05%) Selenium
3 27 (22.69%) Jenkins
4 21 (17.65%) Git
4 21 (17.65%) REST Assured
5 20 (16.81%) Postman
6 18 (15.13%) JMeter
7 14 (11.76%) Cypress.io
8 9 (7.56%) Cucumber
9 7 (5.88%) GitLab
9 7 (5.88%) LoadRunner
10 6 (5.04%) JUnit
10 6 (5.04%) Zephyr
11 5 (4.20%) Appium
11 5 (4.20%) TestNG
12 4 (3.36%) HP UFT
12 4 (3.36%) TestComplete
13 3 (2.52%) SoapUI
13 3 (2.52%) TeamCity
13 3 (2.52%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (32.77%) Finance
2 36 (30.25%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.24%) Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.72%) General Ledger
7 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.36%) Law
9 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Local Government
10 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Electronics
11 1 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (17.65%) Analyst
1 21 (17.65%) Test Engineer
2 18 (15.13%) Senior
3 17 (14.29%) Lead
4 16 (13.45%) Tester
5 14 (11.76%) Consultant
5 14 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Test Analyst
7 12 (10.08%) Senior Test Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Automation Tester
8 10 (8.40%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Business Analyst
10 7 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (5.04%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) Test Manager
12 5 (4.20%) Automation Test Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Automation Test Lead
12 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.13%) REST
2 13 (10.92%) pytest
3 12 (10.08%) Playwright
4 5 (4.20%) .NET
4 5 (4.20%) JSON
5 4 (3.36%) HTML
5 4 (3.36%) RESTful
5 4 (3.36%) Web Services
6 3 (2.52%) CSS
6 3 (2.52%) Kafka
6 3 (2.52%) SOAP
7 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.68%) React
7 2 (1.68%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.68%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.68%) XML
8 1 (0.84%) BAPI
8 1 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.84%) Swagger
8 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.52%) PDA
3 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.68%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.68%) Online Banking
4 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.84%) CMDB
5 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Windows
2 3 (2.52%) Android
2 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (58.82%) Test Automation
2 48 (40.34%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.05%) Agile
4 30 (25.21%) Test Strategy
5 25 (21.01%) User Acceptance Testing
5 25 (21.01%) Validation
6 24 (20.17%) API Testing
7 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (16.81%) DevOps
9 18 (15.13%) Software Testing
9 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (12.61%) BDD
10 15 (12.61%) Performance Testing
10 15 (12.61%) Regression Testing
10 15 (12.61%) Scrum
11 12 (10.08%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (10.08%) Open Source
12 11 (9.24%) Integration Testing
12 11 (9.24%) Manual Testing
12 11 (9.24%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) Python
2 27 (22.69%) Java
3 24 (20.17%) SQL
4 21 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.40%) C#
6 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.68%) RPG
7 2 (1.68%) Swift
8 1 (0.84%) Groovy
8 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.84%) PHP
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) Degree
4 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (32.77%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) SEPA
5 1 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.84%) PMO
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Kibana
2 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Perfmon
3 1 (0.84%) Ansible
3 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) SAP
2 12 (10.08%) Oracle
3 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.36%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.36%) Reuters
5 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.52%) Workday
6 2 (1.68%) Ariba
6 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) Ceridian
7 1 (0.84%) Databricks
7 1 (0.84%) HP
7 1 (0.84%) Informatica
7 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.84%) Murex
7 1 (0.84%) Planview
7 1 (0.84%) QAD