Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in the North East

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 40 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 +35
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.76% 0.66% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.71% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £362 £455
25th Percentile - £370 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £394 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -21.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £388 £420 -
90th Percentile £440 £431 -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £489
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.98% +7.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 282 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.88% 92.76% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 135 151
10th Percentile £178 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £591 £712 £710
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in the North East

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North East

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Tyne and Wear -9 3 £300 -23.81% 2
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Software Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx