Test Scripting Contracts in Reading

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 81 78
Rank change year-on-year +35 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 18 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.00% 0.62% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 0.72% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile £260 - £487
25th Percentile £413 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £515
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -32.04% -6.36%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £580
90th Percentile - £538 -
Berkshire median daily rate £419 £350 £515
% change year-on-year +19.64% -32.04% -4.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 966 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.51% 86.17% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 523 635
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +89.62%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Reading over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
1 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) RFC 2544
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Load Testing
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (27.78%) High Availability
5 5 (27.78%) Risk Analysis
5 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 5 (27.78%) Verification and Validation
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) Service Management
8 2 (11.11%) API Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Case Management
8 2 (11.11%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Snow