Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 77 91
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 14 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.91% 1.74% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.07% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 17
10th Percentile £243 £429 £330
25th Percentile £352 £497 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £465 £575 £506
90th Percentile £540 £600 £555
England median daily rate £454 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.42% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.61
25th Percentile - - £45.03
Median hourly rate - - £48.98
75th Percentile - - £51.34
90th Percentile - - £51.81
England median hourly rate £50.00 £48.75 £90.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% -45.83% +63.64%

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 1,389 1,254 1,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.61% 84.05% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 752 1,202
10th Percentile £250 £313 £305
25th Percentile £375 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £620
90th Percentile £638 £662 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 44 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £75.50 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Scripting.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Scripting.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
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 16 September 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 -16 12 £420 -23.64% 2
North Yorkshire +2 1 £155 -69.00% 3
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) JUnit
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
1 4 (28.57%) TestNG
2 3 (21.43%) JMeter
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Appium
3 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Local Government
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Power Apps Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.14%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) EPoS
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) API Testing
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (28.57%) WCAG
3 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Brio
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk