Test Scripting Contracts in Northamptonshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 22 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.74% 4.08% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 4.57% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £280 £347 -
25th Percentile £309 £356 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £363 £238
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +52.63% -48.65%
75th Percentile £400 £473 £244
90th Percentile £415 £481 £289
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £363 £238
% change year-on-year +7.86% +52.63% -44.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Northamptonshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Northamptonshire

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Northamptonshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Northamptonshire

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Daventry +1 2 £375 +3.45%
Northampton -5 2 £326 -30.00% 1
Test Scripting
East Midlands

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Introscope
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) HP