Test Scripting Contracts in the North of England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 128 136 138
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 38 49 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 1.03% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.20% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 57
10th Percentile £263 £365 £385
25th Percentile £312 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -7.22% +21.25%
75th Percentile £504 £506 £570
90th Percentile £586 £575 £680
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £56.70 - £42.69
25th Percentile - £41.25 £42.74
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% -7.82% -
75th Percentile - £43.75 £50.77
90th Percentile - £52.50 £51.58
England median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +19 29 £481 +6.94% 25
Yorkshire -2 7 £275 -35.29% 11
North East -3 2 £411 -13.42% 6
Test Scripting
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (31.58%) SAP HR
1 12 (31.58%) SAP Payroll
2 6 (15.79%) SAP CO
2 6 (15.79%) SAP FI
2 6 (15.79%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (2.63%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) JIRA
2 11 (28.95%) Selenium
3 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 4 (10.53%) Postman
3 4 (10.53%) SoapUI
4 3 (7.89%) Git
5 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.26%) GitLab
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.63%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 22 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Banking
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.26%) Health Technology
4 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Games
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Tester
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) SAP Developer
2 6 (15.79%) SAP HR Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) QA Tester
3 5 (13.16%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Payroll Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) SAP Payroll Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) ABAP Developer
6 2 (5.26%) HR Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Manual Tester
6 2 (5.26%) SAP HR Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.63%) ERP Manager
7 1 (2.63%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Apache POI
1 2 (5.26%) JDBC
1 2 (5.26%) Playwright
2 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.26%) NHS
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.63%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 17 (44.74%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Manual Testing
5 7 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
6 6 (15.79%) SDLC
6 6 (15.79%) Test Strategy
7 5 (13.16%) API Testing
7 5 (13.16%) DevOps
7 5 (13.16%) Regression Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (10.53%) Black-Box Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Defect Management
8 4 (10.53%) ITSM
8 4 (10.53%) Project Management
8 4 (10.53%) Security Testing
8 4 (10.53%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) ABAP
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) QA
2 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) SAP
2 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
2 7 (18.42%) Workday
3 6 (15.79%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Brio
4 2 (5.26%) HP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Sage