Test Scripting Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 108 121
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 -23
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 11 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 1.30% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.41% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 41
10th Percentile £202 £331 £343
25th Percentile £259 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £504 £580 £538
90th Percentile £518 - £575
South East median daily rate £475 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Buckinghamshire +22 7 £305 -18.67% 3
Berkshire -33 4 £509 -1.17% 5
Test Scripting
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) OneDrive
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) QA Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) QA Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) E-business
2 2 (18.18%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (18.18%) Software Asset Management
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
2 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle