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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 239 287
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +34
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 119 161 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.92% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.03% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 118 140
10th Percentile £372 £325 £324
25th Percentile £404 £408 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -10.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £732 £775
England median daily rate £425 £454 £500
% change year-on-year -6.39% -9.20% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.86 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.59% -73.02% +35.02%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £82.50 £69.75
% change year-on-year +3.03% +18.28% +55.12%

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 11,403 15,571 23,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.72% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,712 11,152 17,296
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £434 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £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 172 312 273
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% -28.41% +5.41%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.45 £81.80
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

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 14 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 14 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 -8 29 £475 -13.64% 4
South London - 4 £380 - 2
West London +8 2 £315 -49.76% 1
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 7 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) IIS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (6.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (4.20%) SAP CO
3 5 (4.20%) SAP FI
3 5 (4.20%) SAP PS
4 4 (3.36%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.68%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.68%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.84%) Murex MxG2000
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.84%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.84%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.84%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.65%) AWS
2 20 (16.81%) Azure
3 14 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.36%) GitHub
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.52%) SaaS
5 3 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.68%) OCI
6 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Serverless
6 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.68%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) HTTP
1 1 (0.84%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
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
3 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (26.89%) JIRA
2 31 (26.05%) Selenium
3 25 (21.01%) Jenkins
4 21 (17.65%) REST Assured
5 20 (16.81%) Postman
6 18 (15.13%) JMeter
7 15 (12.61%) Cypress.io
7 15 (12.61%) Git
8 8 (6.72%) Cucumber
9 7 (5.88%) GitLab
9 7 (5.88%) LoadRunner
10 6 (5.04%) Zephyr
11 4 (3.36%) HP UFT
11 4 (3.36%) SoapUI
11 4 (3.36%) TestComplete
12 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.52%) JUnit
12 3 (2.52%) WebDriver
13 2 (1.68%) Gatling
13 2 (1.68%) TestCafe
General
1 39 (32.77%) Finance
2 37 (31.09%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Banking
5 9 (7.56%) General Ledger
5 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.36%) Law
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Local Government
8 3 (2.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.84%) Back Office
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
10 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) Analyst
2 22 (18.49%) Test Engineer
3 17 (14.29%) Senior
4 16 (13.45%) Lead
5 15 (12.61%) Tester
6 14 (11.76%) Consultant
7 13 (10.92%) Test Analyst
8 11 (9.24%) Senior Test Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) Automation Tester
9 10 (8.40%) QA Engineer
10 9 (7.56%) Business Analyst
11 8 (6.72%) Python Engineer
11 8 (6.72%) Test Manager
12 7 (5.88%) Developer
12 7 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
13 6 (5.04%) Test Automation Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Automation Test Analyst
14 5 (4.20%) Automation Test Lead
14 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
14 5 (4.20%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.29%) REST
2 13 (10.92%) Playwright
3 11 (9.24%) pytest
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 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.52%) PDA
3 2 (1.68%) CMDB
3 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.68%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (1.68%) Online Banking
3 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Android
3 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.46%) Test Automation
2 44 (36.97%) CI/CD
3 34 (28.57%) Agile
4 31 (26.05%) Test Strategy
5 28 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (22.69%) Validation
7 24 (20.17%) API Testing
7 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.49%) DevOps
9 19 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (13.45%) Regression Testing
10 16 (13.45%) Scrum
10 16 (13.45%) Software Testing
11 15 (12.61%) Performance Testing
12 14 (11.76%) BDD
13 13 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (10.08%) User Stories
15 11 (9.24%) Integration Testing
15 11 (9.24%) Open Source
15 11 (9.24%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.05%) Python
2 26 (21.85%) Java
2 26 (21.85%) SQL
3 20 (16.81%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.24%) C#
5 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.68%) RPG
7 1 (0.84%) Groovy
7 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.84%) PHP
7 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) 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 34 (28.57%) QA
2 8 (6.72%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.04%) 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 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) Oracle
3 4 (3.36%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.36%) Reuters
3 4 (3.36%) Workday
4 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) Ariba
5 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) Ceridian
6 1 (0.84%) Databricks
6 1 (0.84%) HP
6 1 (0.84%) Informatica
6 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.84%) Murex
6 1 (0.84%) Planview
6 1 (0.84%) QAD