Test Scripting Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 110 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 -46
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 18 30 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% 1.26% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.42% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 53
10th Percentile £193 £263 £285
25th Percentile £331 £398 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £422 £405
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% +4.20% +12.50%
75th Percentile £463 £500 £430
90th Percentile £518 £550 £512
England median daily rate £452 £475 £445
% change year-on-year -4.84% +6.74% +9.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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
Birmingham +4 7 £313 -21.88% 3
Shropshire +26 4 £448 +6.16%
Coventry - 4 £488 - 1
Worcestershire +8 1 £195 -60.00% 2
Warwickshire -2 1 £475 -13.64% 1
Solihull - 1 £190 - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Appium
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) UI Automator
1 2 (11.11%) XCUITest
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Analyst
2 11 (61.11%) Test Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Tester
6 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Selenium Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Defect Management
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Test Planning
4 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (16.67%) API Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Requirements Management
5 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
1 2 (11.11%) Swift
2 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Denodo
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Cadence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) SAP