Test Scripting Contracts in the Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 71 99 115
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 40 34 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.09% 1.23% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.50% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 40
10th Percentile £230 £250 £231
25th Percentile £235 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £420 £418
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +0.60% +3.09%
75th Percentile £483 £475 £500
90th Percentile £523 £538 £550
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the Midlands

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +29 33 £235 -47.54% 24
East Midlands +2 7 £391 +7.86% 10
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) Apigee
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
1 2 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Selenium
2 5 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) JMeter
3 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 3 (7.50%) Postman
4 3 (7.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (7.50%) TestNG
4 3 (7.50%) Travis CI
5 2 (5.00%) Introscope
5 2 (5.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.00%) Subversion
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) JBehave
6 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.50%) Toad
6 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Support Assistant
2 8 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Tester
4 3 (7.50%) Test Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Business Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) ERP Manager
6 1 (2.50%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) QA Tester
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Test Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 2 (5.00%) J2EE
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.50%) Playwright
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
1 3 (7.50%) FPGA
1 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
1 3 (7.50%) VHDL
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 2 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) API Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 4 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
7 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.00%) Functional Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 4 (10.00%) Security Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) Java
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) C
5 2 (5.00%) Tcl
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.50%) CEH
2 3 (7.50%) CISSP
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ISEB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) SLA
2 6 (15.00%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kibana
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) webMethods