Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 40 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.19% 1.38% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.61% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £214 £294 £258
25th Percentile £235 £398 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £540 £381
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +41.64% -4.39%
75th Percentile £309 £632 £405
90th Percentile £334 £643 £424
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £309 £438 £388
% change year-on-year -29.37% +12.90% -13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 232 248 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 92.06% 85.81% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 180 452
10th Percentile £231 £249 £300
25th Percentile £329 £389 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £468 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -9.10% +5.10%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £635 £625 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £428 £463 £522
% change year-on-year -7.57% -11.36% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 7
10th Percentile £14.71 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £23.81 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +121.08% +6.43%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile - £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -40.00% +82.93% +11.19%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) MSTest
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) UAT Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
1 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Compaq
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Terracotta
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods