Test Scripting Contracts in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 47 47 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.27% 1.97% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 2.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% +34.21%
75th Percentile - £444 £656
90th Percentile - £450 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -35.29% -15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -2 1 - - 1
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco