Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 37 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +32
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.86% 0.90% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.99% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £362 -
25th Percentile - £370 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £394 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - -
75th Percentile £388 £420 -
90th Percentile £440 £431 -
North East median daily rate £300 £394 £500
% change year-on-year -23.81% -21.25% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 203 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.68% 91.44% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 105 108
10th Percentile £180 £302 £210
25th Percentile £363 £350 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £585
90th Percentile £583 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 3
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.83 £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £18.75
90th Percentile £54.38 £19.93 -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Tyne and Wear

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 3 £300 -23.81% 2
Test Scripting
North East

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Software Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx