Test Scripting Contracts in Shropshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 30 25 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 1.54% 2.99% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 4.82% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £403 £418 £416
25th Percentile £404 £429 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £448 £422
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +6.16% +3.56%
75th Percentile £429 £449 £427
90th Percentile £434 £450 £430
West Midlands median daily rate £235 £448 £422
% change year-on-year -47.54% +6.16% +4.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Shropshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Shropshire

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford -3 2 £413 -7.74% 1
Test Scripting
West Midlands

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JBehave
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods