Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -41 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.29% 1.57% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.69% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £391 £442 £375
25th Percentile £420 £467 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +16.18% -31.31%
75th Percentile £497 £514 £444
90th Percentile £514 £539 £460
Yorkshire median daily rate £434 £469 £425
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.29% -19.05%

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 737 296 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.85% 92.79% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 170 254
10th Percentile £316 £212 £378
25th Percentile £402 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -3.14% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £623
90th Percentile £638 £677 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.40
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.63
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £27.50
90th Percentile - £21.05 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.29% +2.06% +0.28%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in South Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Test Scripting

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 24 December 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 -37 10 £468 -6.40% 9
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (70.00%) REST Assured
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) Postman
2 6 (60.00%) TestRail
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Senior
5 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) LDAP
2 5 (50.00%) OpenID
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) SailPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) Middleware
3 3 (30.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) API Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Manual Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (60.00%) BDD
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
5 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 5 (50.00%) GitOps
5 5 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (30.00%) Coaching
7 3 (30.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kiali
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk