Test Scripting Contracts in Northampton

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.55% 1.61% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.75% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £276 £352 -
25th Percentile £300 £391 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £465 £238
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +95.79% -48.65%
75th Percentile £366 £486 £244
90th Percentile £381 £495 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £340 £363 £238
% change year-on-year -6.21% +52.63% -48.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 182 171 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.30% 91.94% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 138 81
10th Percentile £256 £355 £189
25th Percentile £322 £373 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £449 £575 £500
90th Percentile £515 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +68.93%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Northampton

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Northampton

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Introscope
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) HP