Test Scripting Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 64 93 109
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 33 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.45% 0.92% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.10% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 23
10th Percentile £230 £193 £263
25th Percentile - £331 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £448 £422
Median % change year-on-year -47.54% +6.16% +4.20%
75th Percentile £483 £463 £500
90th Percentile £504 £518 £550
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +22 20 £235 -50.53% 3
Birmingham +17 7 £488 +56.00% 9
Coventry +6 2 £431 -11.54% 2
Shropshire -5 2 £413 -7.74%
Staffordshire - 1 - - 8
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) GitHub
1 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Selenium
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) JMeter
3 4 (12.12%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (9.09%) Postman
4 3 (9.09%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.09%) TestNG
4 3 (9.09%) Travis CI
5 1 (3.03%) Appium
5 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.03%) JBehave
5 1 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) Toad
5 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Support Assistant
2 7 (21.21%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Integration Manager
6 1 (3.03%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Project Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) QA Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) Playwright
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 3 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) FPGA
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Customer Service
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
3 6 (18.18%) Performance Testing
4 5 (15.15%) API Testing
4 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Business Analysis
5 4 (12.12%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (12.12%) Cyber Resilience
5 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
5 4 (12.12%) Functional Testing
5 4 (12.12%) Security Testing
5 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.12%) Waterfall
6 3 (9.09%) Change Management
6 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 3 (9.09%) Regression Testing
6 3 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) Tcl
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.09%) CEH
2 3 (9.09%) CISSP
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (48.48%) SLA
2 6 (18.18%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kibana
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) AVEVA
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) webMethods