Test Scripting Contracts in the South West

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 94 128 147
Rank change year-on-year +34 +19 -9
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 17 29 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.09% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 14
10th Percentile £308 £375 £319
25th Percentile £319 £405 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +28.79% -2.94%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £499
90th Percentile £695 £573 £574
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +30 7 £475 -11.63% 2
Bristol +22 5 £338 -22.86% 2
Gloucestershire +14 4 £500 -4.99% 10
Devon +12 1 - -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.88%) Skype
3 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.88%) VoIP
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Subversion
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) NUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (5.88%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Military
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.88%) Aviation
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Electronics
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) EPoS
2 2 (11.76%) FPGA
2 2 (11.76%) VHDL
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) FPGA Design
5 2 (11.76%) Security Hardening
5 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.76%) System Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Tcl
3 1 (5.88%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (11.76%) MCSA
4 2 (11.76%) MCSE
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.88%) CCNA
5 1 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (5.88%) OPNET
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Wind River