Test Scripting Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 192 166 239
Rank change year-on-year -26 +73 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 112 192 261
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.25% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.42% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 132 186
10th Percentile £235 £325 £325
25th Percentile £304 £374 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £570
90th Percentile £600 £630 £713
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £466
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.49% +3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile £65.54 £83.50 £42.81
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £90.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +80.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile £87.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +37.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Scripting trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Scripting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Scripting hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.14%) SAP HR
1 8 (7.14%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (3.57%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.57%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.68%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.79%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (1.79%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.89%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.89%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.96%) AWS
2 17 (15.18%) Azure
3 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.36%) GitHub
5 4 (3.57%) BrowserStack
5 4 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.57%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (2.68%) GCP
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.89%) Serverless
8 1 (0.89%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.89%) Big Data
3 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.89%) IDMS
3 1 (0.89%) MS Access
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) JIRA
2 19 (16.96%) Cypress.io
3 16 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 16 (14.29%) Selenium
4 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
4 15 (13.39%) Postman
5 13 (11.61%) JMeter
6 12 (10.71%) Git
7 8 (7.14%) GitLab
8 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.57%) HP UFT
8 4 (3.57%) TestComplete
8 4 (3.57%) TestNG
9 3 (2.68%) Appium
9 3 (2.68%) Gatling
9 3 (2.68%) JUnit
9 3 (2.68%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.68%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.79%) TestRail
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (12.50%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.57%) Law
6 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.79%) Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
7 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.89%) Back Office
8 1 (0.89%) Electronics
8 1 (0.89%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Military
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.89%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 23 (20.54%) Analyst
2 22 (19.64%) Test Engineer
3 21 (18.75%) Tester
4 15 (13.39%) Automation Tester
5 13 (11.61%) Business Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Support Assistant
6 10 (8.93%) Consultant
7 9 (8.04%) Lead
8 8 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (7.14%) Senior
8 8 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 8 (7.14%) Test Manager
9 7 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Developer
10 6 (5.36%) QA Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Java Automation Tester
11 5 (4.46%) SAP Analyst
12 4 (3.57%) Lead Test Engineer
12 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.18%) Playwright
2 7 (6.25%) .NET
2 7 (6.25%) REST
3 4 (3.57%) Kafka
3 4 (3.57%) pytest
3 4 (3.57%) RFC 2544
3 4 (3.57%) Web Services
4 3 (2.68%) HTML
4 3 (2.68%) RESTful
5 2 (1.79%) CSS
5 2 (1.79%) React
6 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.89%) BAPI
6 1 (0.89%) Blazor
6 1 (0.89%) J2EE
6 1 (0.89%) PySpark
6 1 (0.89%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.89%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
1 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.68%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.79%) NHS
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.89%) Derivative
4 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.89%) EPoS
4 1 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.89%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.89%) Life Science
4 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (0.89%) PCIe
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) AIX
3 1 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) Test Automation
2 36 (32.14%) Agile
2 36 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (19.64%) Test Strategy
4 20 (17.86%) API Testing
5 19 (16.96%) DevOps
6 16 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 16 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.50%) Software Testing
9 13 (11.61%) Customer Service
9 13 (11.61%) Regression Testing
10 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (9.82%) BDD
11 11 (9.82%) Scrum
11 11 (9.82%) System Testing
11 11 (9.82%) Test Management
12 10 (8.93%) Defect Management
13 9 (8.04%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (8.04%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.64%) SQL
2 20 (17.86%) Java
3 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
4 15 (13.39%) Python
5 11 (9.82%) C#
6 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.68%) ABAP
8 2 (1.79%) C
8 2 (1.79%) Swift
9 1 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CEH
6 1 (0.89%) CISSP
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) ISEB
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.21%) QA
2 14 (12.50%) SLA
3 13 (11.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.79%) NIST
5 2 (1.79%) WCAG
6 1 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Kibana
3 2 (1.79%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.79%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.89%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (19.64%) Microsoft
1 22 (19.64%) SAP
2 6 (5.36%) Oracle
2 6 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.57%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.57%) Cisco
3 4 (3.57%) Reuters
3 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.68%) Google
4 3 (2.68%) HP
5 2 (1.79%) Workday
6 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.89%) Ariba
6 1 (0.89%) Calypso
6 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.89%) QAD
6 1 (0.89%) Snow
6 1 (0.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.89%) webMethods