Test Scripting Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 127 113
Rank change year-on-year +46 -14 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 25 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.68% 0.50% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.57% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 23
10th Percentile £300 £205 £363
25th Percentile £302 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £444 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -13.83% +4.04%
75th Percentile £525 £493 £580
90th Percentile - £509 -
South East median daily rate £400 £463 £423
% change year-on-year -13.51% +9.47% -11.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 2,271 2,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 87.08% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 1,261 1,775
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £400 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.76 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

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

Test Scripting
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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the Thames Valley

Test Scripting
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

Test Scripting
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 21 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
Berkshire +48 23 £425 -16.50% 13
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £475 +31.94% 8
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
1 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
1 5 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Network Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Tester
3 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) QA Leader
3 2 (8.00%) SCADA Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) RFC 2544
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Playwright
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (20.00%) Service Management
4 5 (20.00%) Test Management
4 5 (20.00%) Use Case
5 4 (16.00%) Defect Management
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.00%) High Availability
6 3 (12.00%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (12.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) HP
3 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (4.00%) Conga
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Snow