Test Scripting Contracts in the South East

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 121 148 140
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 38 57 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 1.03% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.21% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 47
10th Percentile £314 £228 £331
25th Percentile £361 £345 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% -9.68%
75th Percentile £458 £556 £559
90th Percentile £513 £613 £601
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £68.50
90th Percentile - - £83.80
England median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the South East

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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 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
Thames Valley +52 19 £425 -10.53% 21
Berkshire +45 18 £425 -16.50% 9
Hampshire +12 9 £400 -25.58% 13
Surrey +17 7 - - 6
West Sussex +10 3 £373 - 2
Buckinghamshire +11 1 - - 10
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 3 (7.89%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
1 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 2 (5.26%) Big Data
2 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) MySQL
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) JIRA
2 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.79%) Selenium
4 5 (13.16%) JUnit
4 5 (13.16%) SoapUI
5 4 (10.53%) Appium
6 3 (7.89%) Git
6 3 (7.89%) Toad
7 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.26%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.63%) JMeter
8 1 (2.63%) TestRail
8 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Test Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Test Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Tester
3 5 (13.16%) QA Manager
3 5 (13.16%) QA Test Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Product Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Strategy Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Test Strategy Manager
5 3 (7.89%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) SAP Test Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) SCADA Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) QA Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) XML
2 5 (13.16%) SOAP
3 3 (7.89%) RFC 2544
4 2 (5.26%) CSS
4 2 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) Playwright
4 2 (5.26%) PySpark
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.89%) Operational Technology
1 3 (7.89%) SCADA
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Unix
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Test Automation
2 15 (39.47%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) Defect Management
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Test Strategy
5 9 (23.68%) Manual Testing
5 9 (23.68%) Waterfall
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Software Testing
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) Test Management
8 5 (13.16%) V-Model
9 4 (10.53%) BDD
9 4 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (10.53%) Performance Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Product Management
9 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) Use Case
9 4 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) C#
3 3 (7.89%) Perl
3 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) Degree
3 7 (18.42%) ISTQB
4 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.89%) ISEB
6 3 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Proxmox
2 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) webMethods
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Snow
4 1 (2.63%) Zscaler