Test Scripting Contracts in Manchester

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 91 114
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -21
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 7 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 1.16% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.27% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 25
10th Percentile £346 £325 £263
25th Percentile £397 £359 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% +21.43% +9.29%
75th Percentile £673 £478 £438
90th Percentile £682 £525 £530
North West median daily rate £450 £448 £400
% change year-on-year +0.56% +11.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,241 1,660 2,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.78% 91.41% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,211 1,819
10th Percentile £325 £315 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 53 58
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.94 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.90 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
% change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (14.29%) LiveLink
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) DataStage
1 1 (14.29%) EDRMS
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) GoCD
1 1 (14.29%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) BPMN
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Asset Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
2 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Embarcadero
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow