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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 109 142
Rank change year-on-year -28 +33 +22
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 46 60 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.16% 1.45% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.73% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 45
10th Percentile £285 £393 £324
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £538
90th Percentile £528 £600 £620
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £20.08 - £43.61
25th Percentile £31.07 - £45.03
Median hourly rate £49.38 - £48.98
75th Percentile £67.69 - £51.34
90th Percentile £78.68 - £51.81
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -44.44% +63.64%

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 3,543 3,477 4,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.99% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 2,087 3,140
10th Percentile £268 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -
75th Percentile £558 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 242 208
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.67 £17.94
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £29.15
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -12.01% +45.75%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.63 £69.98 £60.07
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

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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 14 August 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 0 33 £425 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -29 11 £420 -23.64% 3
North East -4 3 £460 +8.24% 3
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 (4.35%) CICS
1 2 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (2.17%) SAP HR
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) DB2
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) JIRA
2 8 (17.39%) Cucumber
2 8 (17.39%) Selenium
3 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.87%) Maven
4 5 (10.87%) REST Assured
5 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.70%) JUnit
5 4 (8.70%) TestNG
6 3 (6.52%) Git
6 3 (6.52%) GitLab
6 3 (6.52%) JMeter
6 3 (6.52%) Postman
6 3 (6.52%) TestRail
6 3 (6.52%) Zephyr
7 2 (4.35%) Appium
7 2 (4.35%) Eclipse
7 2 (4.35%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.17%) HP UFT
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Local Government
5 4 (8.70%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Tester
2 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Test Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Test Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) UAT Tester
5 3 (6.52%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) SAP Test Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.35%) Manual Tester
6 2 (4.35%) QA Tester
6 2 (4.35%) SAP Manager
6 2 (4.35%) SAP Test Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.35%) UAT Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) UAT Test Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Supply Chain Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Playwright
2 2 (4.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.35%) VSAM
4 1 (2.17%) CMDB
4 1 (2.17%) EPoS
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) User Acceptance Testing
2 19 (41.30%) Test Automation
3 16 (34.78%) Agile
4 14 (30.43%) Test Strategy
5 13 (28.26%) Test Management
6 10 (21.74%) Defect Management
6 10 (21.74%) End-to-End Testing
6 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.74%) Scenario Testing
7 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
7 9 (19.57%) System Integration Testing
7 9 (19.57%) Test Planning
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.22%) Regression Testing
9 7 (15.22%) SDLC
9 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
10 6 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (13.04%) Functional Testing
10 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.04%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Java
2 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.52%) SQL
3 2 (4.35%) C#
3 2 (4.35%) COBOL
3 2 (4.35%) JCL
4 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) ISTQB
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.52%) WCAG
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) SAP
3 5 (10.87%) HP
3 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.17%) Brio
6 1 (2.17%) Optimizely