Test Scripting Contracts in South Wales

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 51 64
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.29% 1.13% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.28% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £361 £325
25th Percentile - £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £625 £426
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% +46.71% +13.60%
75th Percentile - - £449
90th Percentile - - £514
Wales median daily rate £210 £625 £426
% change year-on-year -66.40% +46.71% +13.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 281 468 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.98% 88.14% 83.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 358 568
10th Percentile £148 £190 £254
25th Percentile £350 £339 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 32
10th Percentile £11.21 £14.29 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.46
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -25.96% +22.50%
75th Percentile £52.31 £23.75 £31.97
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.50 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £25.00
% change year-on-year +14.19% -24.74% +40.85%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in South Wales

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in South Wales

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in South Wales

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Cardiff +6 1 £210 -43.24% 2
Test Scripting
Wales

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

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft