Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 34 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.85% 2.41% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.66% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £289 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £425
75th Percentile £331 - £616
90th Percentile £354 - £621
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
South East median hourly rate £75.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +17.97%

All Process & 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 380 263 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.20% 90.38% 81.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 179 343
10th Percentile £216 £181 £213
25th Percentile £408 £266 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £586 £538 £591
90th Percentile £688 £657 £688
South East median daily rate £505 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 22 48
10th Percentile £21.64 £21.54 £11.71
25th Percentile £28.63 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £26.25 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year +151.41% +35.14% -56.83%
75th Percentile £71.99 £40.98 £58.53
90th Percentile £79.37 £62.50 £76.63
South East median hourly rate £36.86 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +13.40% -23.53% -5.56%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Surrey

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Scripting

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 26 March 2026. 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
Staines -9 3 £313 - 2
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gatling
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Performance Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow