Test Scripting Contracts in London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 290 327
Rank change year-on-year +56 +37 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 162 207 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.85% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 134 229
10th Percentile £325 £316 £329
25th Percentile £408 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £732 £757 £661
England median daily rate £452 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.84% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £45.15
Median hourly rate £16.86 £62.50 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% +35.02% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £47.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £66.00 £44.97
% change year-on-year +36.36% +46.78% +19.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +60 40 £550 +10.55% 3
West London +30 9 £627 - 3
North London 0 1 £313 -
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 2 (1.23%) Confluence
1 2 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Dynamics GP
2 9 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (3.70%) SAP Travel Management
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle AGIS
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.47%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.85%) NEC Housing
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (1.85%) SAP PM
6 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.23%) Endur
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.23%) Temenos Globus
7 1 (0.62%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.62%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.96%) Azure
2 9 (5.56%) AWS
3 6 (3.70%) Serverless
4 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.09%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (1.85%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.85%) Miro
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.23%) GitHub
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.62%) GCP
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.62%) 5G
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.09%) Power BI
3 4 (2.47%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.23%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.62%) Big Data
6 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.62%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.62%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.81%) Selenium
2 17 (10.49%) Git
3 16 (9.88%) Cucumber
3 16 (9.88%) JIRA
3 16 (9.88%) REST Assured
4 15 (9.26%) JUnit
5 14 (8.64%) Appium
5 14 (8.64%) TestNG
6 12 (7.41%) Postman
7 10 (6.17%) eggPlant
7 10 (6.17%) SoapUI
7 10 (6.17%) SOAtest
7 10 (6.17%) WebDriver
8 7 (4.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
10 4 (2.47%) Gatling
10 4 (2.47%) JMeter
10 4 (2.47%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.23%) TestComplete
11 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 46 (28.40%) Finance
3 26 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.17%) Marketing
6 9 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.94%) Back Office
7 8 (4.94%) Banking
7 8 (4.94%) Electronics
7 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.70%) Billing
9 5 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.47%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.85%) Retail
12 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.62%) Local Government
13 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (21.60%) Analyst
2 28 (17.28%) Consultant
3 17 (10.49%) Senior
3 17 (10.49%) Test Analyst
3 17 (10.49%) Test Engineer
4 16 (9.88%) Tester
5 14 (8.64%) Developer
5 14 (8.64%) Test Manager
6 12 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.79%) Lead
8 10 (6.17%) Great Plains Consultant
8 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Consultant
8 10 (6.17%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
10 8 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Management Consultant
11 6 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (3.09%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) .NET
2 11 (6.79%) .NET Framework
2 11 (6.79%) REST
3 7 (4.32%) Gherkin
4 6 (3.70%) Node.js
4 6 (3.70%) SAP TM
5 5 (3.09%) EDI
5 5 (3.09%) Jest
5 5 (3.09%) JSON
5 5 (3.09%) XML
6 4 (2.47%) Middleware
7 3 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.85%) CSS
7 3 (1.85%) Playwright
7 3 (1.85%) React
7 3 (1.85%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.23%) HATEOAS
8 2 (1.23%) Kafka
8 2 (1.23%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.23%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.32%) Mobile App
1 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.70%) Replication
3 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.85%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.23%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.62%) Blog
7 1 (0.62%) CMDB
7 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.62%) PDA
7 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.62%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) Linux
2 4 (2.47%) Unix
2 4 (2.47%) Windows
3 2 (1.23%) Android
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (30.86%) Test Automation
2 44 (27.16%) Agile
2 44 (27.16%) User Acceptance Testing
3 30 (18.52%) Test Strategy
4 28 (17.28%) CI/CD
5 24 (14.81%) Software Testing
6 22 (13.58%) Scenario Testing
7 21 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 18 (11.11%) Integration Testing
10 17 (10.49%) BDD
11 16 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (9.88%) Project Management
11 16 (9.88%) User Stories
12 15 (9.26%) Functional Testing
13 14 (8.64%) Migration
13 14 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (8.64%) Test Management
14 13 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (8.02%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.75%) SQL
2 31 (19.14%) Java
3 19 (11.73%) C#
4 18 (11.11%) Python
5 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.85%) VBA
7 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) SOQL
8 1 (0.62%) Bash
8 1 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.62%) R
8 1 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.96%) Degree
4 19 (11.73%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.02%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.47%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.85%) ISEB
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.37%) QA
2 9 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.47%) GAAP
3 4 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.47%) SLA
4 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
5 2 (1.23%) Basel III
5 2 (1.23%) COREP
5 2 (1.23%) FINREP
5 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 3 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.23%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.62%) Control-M
3 1 (0.62%) Nagios
3 1 (0.62%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.28%) SAP
3 17 (10.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.47%) Databricks
5 4 (2.47%) NEC
6 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) Adobe
7 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.23%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.23%) Okta
7 2 (1.23%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.23%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
7 2 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.62%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.62%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.62%) Refinitiv