Test Scripting Contracts in the Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 112 114
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -36
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 34 51 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.24% 1.49% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.68% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 69
10th Percentile £250 £231 £283
25th Percentile £350 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £420 £405
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £450
90th Percentile £538 £550 £503
England median daily rate £452 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.84% +5.56% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,250 3,028 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.49% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,116 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 122 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.13 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +5.33% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.69 £22.14
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.53 £34.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
West Midlands +10 18 £448 +5.79% 14
East Midlands +19 15 £363 +42.86% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
1 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JMeter
2 2 (5.88%) Appium
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) UI Automator
2 2 (5.88%) XCUITest
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) LSMW
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Analyst
2 17 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 10 (29.41%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Oracle Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) HR Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) HR Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Performance Test Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Tester
7 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Business IT Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) JSON
2 1 (2.94%) Playwright
2 1 (2.94%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.88%) NHS
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Android
2 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) AIX
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Scenario Testing
1 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
2 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Manual Testing
3 8 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Performance Testing
4 7 (20.59%) Software Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.76%) Business Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Defect Management
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.76%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (11.76%) System Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Test Planning
7 4 (11.76%) User Experience
7 4 (11.76%) Web Testing
8 3 (8.82%) Scrum
8 3 (8.82%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Kotlin
1 2 (5.88%) Swift
2 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) ISTQB
3 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) ISEB
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Denodo
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Cadence
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow