Test Scripting Contracts in the South East

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 135 146
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -18
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 58 82 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.04% 1.40% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.57% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 78
10th Percentile £229 £324 £293
25th Percentile £361 £387 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £556 £549 £538
90th Percentile £616 £583 £601
England median daily rate £455 £470 £440
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.82% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £46.25 £16.65
25th Percentile - £49.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate - £57.38 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +210.14% -70.13%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £69.50 £41.67
England median hourly rate £87.50 £63.63 £44.97
% change year-on-year +37.52% +41.50% +19.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Hampshire -1 23 £538 +27.98% 6
Thames Valley -14 11 £450 - 8
Surrey +14 8 £300 - 3
Buckinghamshire +29 7 £305 -14.98% 3
West Sussex +4 4 - - 1
Berkshire -27 4 £509 -1.17% 5
East Sussex - 2 £300 -
Kent +4 1 - -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (20.69%) Confluence
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.72%) IIS
4 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (3.45%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (3.45%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.72%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) DHCP
1 9 (15.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) LAN
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (6.90%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (6.90%) MS Access
2 4 (6.90%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Selenium
3 2 (3.45%) ClearCase
3 2 (3.45%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.72%) Appium
4 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.72%) Postman
4 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) TestNG
4 1 (1.72%) TestRail
4 1 (1.72%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.03%) Finance
3 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.69%) Telecoms
5 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
5 9 (15.52%) Military
5 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (13.79%) Electronics
6 8 (13.79%) Marketing
7 5 (8.62%) Retail
8 4 (6.90%) Billing
8 4 (6.90%) Legal
9 2 (3.45%) Banking
10 1 (1.72%) Automotive
10 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Analyst
2 15 (25.86%) Test Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Integration Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) LIMS Manager
4 8 (13.79%) LIMS Project Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Project Manager
5 7 (12.07%) Test Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Project Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Applications Support
7 3 (5.17%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Digital Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (1.72%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.72%) HTML
2 1 (1.72%) JSON
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.72%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.72%) SOAP
2 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) PKI
2 10 (17.24%) NHS
3 8 (13.79%) LIMS
4 4 (6.90%) e-Health
5 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.45%) FPGA
6 2 (3.45%) GNSS
6 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.45%) VHDL
7 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 9 (15.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (6.90%) Unix
5 1 (1.72%) Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Agile
2 17 (29.31%) Regression Testing
3 13 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (20.69%) Programme Management
5 11 (18.97%) Scenario Testing
6 10 (17.24%) Validation
7 9 (15.52%) Critical Thinking
8 8 (13.79%) Digital Marketing
8 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.07%) Data Migration
10 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
10 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
10 6 (10.34%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (8.62%) DevOps
11 5 (8.62%) E-Commerce
11 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.62%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.17%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) C
3 2 (3.45%) C++
3 2 (3.45%) Embedded C
3 2 (3.45%) Embedded C++
3 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (15.52%) MCSA
4 9 (15.52%) MCSE
4 9 (15.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (13.79%) Degree
6 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) HL7
2 6 (10.34%) QA
3 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) SAP
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (17.24%) VMware
4 8 (13.79%) Oracle
5 4 (6.90%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.45%) Adobe
6 2 (3.45%) HP
6 2 (3.45%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat