Test Scripting Contracts in Surrey

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 32 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 7 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.35% 1.19% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.45% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £216 £801
25th Percentile - £231 £803
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £269 £813
Median % change year-on-year - -66.92% +35.42%
75th Percentile - £300 £828
90th Percentile - £463 £834
South East median daily rate £400 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate - - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +170.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Surrey

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Surrey

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Surrey

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Sunbury-on-Thames +5 4 - -
Staines - 3 - -
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Product Manager
1 4 (57.14%) QA Manager
1 4 (57.14%) QA Test Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Strategy Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (57.14%) Product Management
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance