Test Scripting Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 56 69 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 6 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.09% 0.80% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.91% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 17
10th Percentile - £381 £465
25th Percentile £263 £441 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £570
90th Percentile £488 - £680
Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -35.29% -15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +1 6 £275 -50.00% 1
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) SoapUI
3 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Health Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Brio