Test Scripting Contracts in South London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.70% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £394 - £575
90th Percentile £420 - -
London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in South London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in South London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in South London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon - 4 £380 -
Bromley - 1 £425 -
Test Scripting
London

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Postman
1 4 (80.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) UAT Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Testing
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) SDET
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana