Test Scripting Job Trends in Birmingham

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 111 87
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +56
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 3 15 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.68% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.83% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £43,000 £49,250 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £39,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £50,625 £61,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £64,250 £81,000
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +43.75% -8.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Test Scripting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,139 1,818 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.35% 82.98% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 791 888 938
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £31,536
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £90,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Scripting.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSTest
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Kronos
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Workday