Test Scripting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 187 209 201
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 155 205 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 0.99% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.16% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 138 197
10th Percentile £235 £304 £300
25th Percentile £275 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £449 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +2.63% +2.94%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £580 £575 £653
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £466
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.49% +3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 24
10th Percentile £18.82 £41.25 £43.84
25th Percentile £59.38 £43.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £85.50 £90.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +33.83% +61.68%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £79.63
90th Percentile £87.50 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +37.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +28 40 £260 -38.10% 79
South East +27 38 £400 -15.79% 103
North of England +8 38 £468 +3.89% 74
West Midlands +29 33 £235 -47.54% 48
North West +19 29 £481 +6.94% 39
South West +34 17 £475 -10.59% 44
Scotland +7 13 £450 +18.03% 11
East of England +22 8 £500 +60.00% 52
East Midlands +2 7 £391 +7.86% 28
Yorkshire -2 7 £275 -35.29% 25
Wales +3 3 £312 +48.57% 13
North East -3 2 £411 -13.42% 10
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (5.16%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.29%) Apache
4 2 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (13.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (7.74%) SAP HR
1 12 (7.74%) SAP Payroll
2 6 (3.87%) SAP CO
2 6 (3.87%) SAP FI
2 6 (3.87%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.19%) Azure
2 17 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.16%) AWS
4 2 (1.29%) GCP
4 2 (1.29%) GitHub
4 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.65%) Apigee
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.65%) Datadog
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.65%) OCI
5 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) Firewall
2 3 (1.94%) DHCP
2 3 (1.94%) DNS
2 3 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.29%) HTTP
3 2 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.29%) VLAN
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.65%) LAN
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.65%) Skype
4 1 (0.65%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.65%) VoIP
4 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.29%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.29%) Big Data
4 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.29%) MySQL
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.29%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.29%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 37 (23.87%) JIRA
2 29 (18.71%) Selenium
3 18 (11.61%) Git
4 15 (9.68%) Jenkins
5 12 (7.74%) SoapUI
6 10 (6.45%) Cucumber
7 9 (5.81%) Postman
8 7 (4.52%) Cypress.io
8 7 (4.52%) JUnit
9 6 (3.87%) JMeter
9 6 (3.87%) SpecFlow
9 6 (3.87%) Subversion
10 5 (3.23%) Appium
10 5 (3.23%) GitLab
11 4 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (2.58%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.58%) Toad
12 3 (1.94%) LoadRunner
12 3 (1.94%) TestNG
12 3 (1.94%) Travis CI
General
1 50 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.39%) Finance
5 7 (4.52%) Banking
6 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.87%) Retail
7 5 (3.23%) Military
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 27 (17.42%) Tester
2 25 (16.13%) Analyst
3 23 (14.84%) Test Engineer
4 16 (10.32%) Support Assistant
5 15 (9.68%) Test Analyst
6 10 (6.45%) Developer
7 9 (5.81%) Senior
8 8 (5.16%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.16%) QA Tester
8 8 (5.16%) Test Manager
9 7 (4.52%) Consultant
9 7 (4.52%) Lead
10 6 (3.87%) FPGA Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) SAP Developer
10 6 (3.87%) SAP HR Developer
11 5 (3.23%) QA Manager
11 5 (3.23%) QA Test Manager
11 5 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.74%) XML
2 9 (5.81%) SOAP
3 8 (5.16%) Playwright
4 7 (4.52%) .NET
4 7 (4.52%) HTML
5 6 (3.87%) Web Services
6 5 (3.23%) CSS
6 5 (3.23%) RESTful
7 3 (1.94%) JDBC
7 3 (1.94%) RFC 2544
8 2 (1.29%) Apache POI
8 2 (1.29%) Blazor
8 2 (1.29%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.29%) GWT
8 2 (1.29%) J2EE
8 2 (1.29%) JSON
8 2 (1.29%) Kafka
8 2 (1.29%) PySpark
8 2 (1.29%) REST
9 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.52%) FPGA
1 7 (4.52%) VHDL
2 6 (3.87%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.23%) NHS
4 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.58%) PKI
5 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.94%) PCIe
5 3 (1.94%) SCADA
5 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.29%) EPoS
6 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) CMDB
7 1 (0.65%) Derivative
7 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.03%) Windows
2 8 (5.16%) Linux
3 7 (4.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.94%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.29%) AIX
5 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.29%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.65%) Test Automation
2 61 (39.35%) Agile
3 30 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (16.13%) DevOps
4 25 (16.13%) Manual Testing
5 24 (15.48%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.48%) Test Strategy
6 20 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (12.26%) Defect Management
7 19 (12.26%) Performance Testing
7 19 (12.26%) Waterfall
8 18 (11.61%) Software Testing
9 17 (10.97%) Customer Service
10 15 (9.68%) Non-Functional Testing
10 15 (9.68%) Regression Testing
10 15 (9.68%) Scrum
11 14 (9.03%) API Testing
11 14 (9.03%) SDLC
12 13 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (7.74%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.16%) SQL
2 17 (10.97%) Python
3 16 (10.32%) Java
4 11 (7.10%) C#
5 7 (4.52%) C
5 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.87%) ABAP
6 6 (3.87%) Tcl
7 4 (2.58%) Bash
7 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.94%) Perl
8 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.26%) ISTQB
4 16 (10.32%) Degree
5 8 (5.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.23%) ISEB
8 3 (1.94%) CEH
8 3 (1.94%) CISSP
8 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.29%) MCSA
9 2 (1.29%) MCSE
9 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.65%) CCNA
10 1 (0.65%) CCNP
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.65%) QA
2 17 (10.97%) SLA
3 7 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.29%) NIST
5 2 (1.29%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.58%) Docker
1 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.94%) Kibana
2 3 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.29%) CA Wily
3 2 (1.29%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.65%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (0.65%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.65%) OPNET
Vendors
1 25 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.26%) SAP
3 12 (7.74%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.81%) Oracle
5 8 (5.16%) Google
6 7 (4.52%) Cisco
6 7 (4.52%) Workday
7 5 (3.23%) HP
7 5 (3.23%) VMware
8 4 (2.58%) webMethods
9 3 (1.94%) Splunk
10 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.29%) Brio
11 1 (0.65%) AVEVA
11 1 (0.65%) Databricks
11 1 (0.65%) Micro Focus
11 1 (0.65%) Sage
11 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.65%) Snow
11 1 (0.65%) Wind River