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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 34 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.69% 0.52% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.55% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £214 - £422
25th Percentile £217 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £231 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.49%
75th Percentile £242 - £543
90th Percentile £243 - £562
London median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% +6.40%

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 154 181 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.01% 94.27% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 129 241
10th Percentile £219 £360 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £613
90th Percentile £710 £655 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 18
10th Percentile - - £15.32
25th Percentile - £17.25 £25.10
Median hourly rate £15.84 £44.13 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% -12.49% +14.31%
75th Percentile - £77.19 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £83.75 £58.58
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.90%

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 22 July 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
Merton - 2 £231 - 1
Croydon - 1 - -
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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana