Test Scripting Contracts in Scotland

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 110 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 13 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.86% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.97% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 19
10th Percentile £265 - £374
25th Percentile £363 £363 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £381 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% -15.28% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £500
90th Percentile £550 £634 £538
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £466
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.49% +3.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +8 7 £450 +16.13% 1
Edinburgh -5 4 £488 +30.00% 3
Argyll and Bute - 1 £400 -
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
4 1 (7.69%) Mercurial
4 1 (7.69%) MSTest
4 1 (7.69%) NUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Ranorex
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Software Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) SOAP
1 3 (23.08%) XML
2 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) DOM
3 1 (7.69%) EJB
3 1 (7.69%) Java EE
3 1 (7.69%) JAX-RS
3 1 (7.69%) JDBC
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) FPGA
1 3 (23.08%) VHDL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
2 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 3 (23.08%) FPGA Design
4 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) V-Model
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.69%) Data Interpretation
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Tcl
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) SAP
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk