Test Scripting Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 85 83 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 7 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.69% 1.01% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.17% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 21
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £263 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £570
90th Percentile £488 - £656
England median daily rate £425 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -6.49% -4.32% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £42.69
25th Percentile - - £42.74
Median hourly rate - - £46.11
75th Percentile - - £50.77
90th Percentile - - £51.58
England median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +33.33% +41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +13 6 £275 -50.00%
South Yorkshire 0 1 - - 1
Test Scripting
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
3 4 (57.14%) Postman
3 4 (57.14%) SoapUI
4 2 (28.57%) Git
5 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) QA Tester
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) API Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) OWASP
3 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 4 (57.14%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Brio
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco