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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 119 140
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 22 37 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.25% 1.11% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.36% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 16
10th Percentile £313 £370 £393
25th Percentile £342 £390 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +10.26% +13.37%
75th Percentile £558 £560 £533
90th Percentile £635 £583 £563
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.82%
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 £75.00 £55.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -28.57% +40.00%

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 1,595 2,722 3,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.78% 81.86% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1,705 2,191
10th Percentile £213 £255 £313
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +8.37%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 376 308
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.77 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.38
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £58.65
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -6.22% +17.30%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
England median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
% change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%

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 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the South West

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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 22 June 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 +29 12 £538 - 11
Bristol +18 5 £338 -15.63% 8
Gloucestershire +17 4 £500 -7.41% 19
Devon +4 1 - - 11
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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (4.55%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.55%) Skype
3 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.55%) VoIP
3 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Subversion
3 1 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (4.55%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Military
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Test Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Manual Tester
4 1 (4.55%) Messaging Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) EPoS
2 2 (9.09%) FPGA
2 2 (9.09%) VHDL
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (22.73%) Regression Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
5 3 (13.64%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Test Planning
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) FPGA Design
6 2 (9.09%) Manual Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Security Hardening
6 2 (9.09%) Test Management
6 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Tcl
3 1 (4.55%) Assembly Language
3 1 (4.55%) C
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) ISTQB
5 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (9.09%) MCSA
5 2 (9.09%) MCSE
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) CCNP
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) Degree
6 1 (4.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (4.55%) OPNET
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.55%) Wind River