Test Scripting Contracts in Swindon

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 17 18 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 4.08% 2.44% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 3.26% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £276 - £394
25th Percentile £296 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -8.05% -13.00%
75th Percentile £392 £481 £469
90th Percentile £449 £515 £486
Wiltshire median daily rate £475 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 92 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.82% 74.80% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 160
10th Percentile £311 £139 £359
25th Percentile £413 £263 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £650 £623 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
% change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Swindon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Swindon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Swindon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Swindon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Swindon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) EPoS
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA