Test Scripting Jobs in the North of England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 345 328
Rank change year-on-year +66 -17 -86
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 31 58 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.40% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24 51 52
10th Percentile £36,625 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,188 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £90,769 £66,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,351 14,481 16,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.57% 83.82% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,776 11,125 8,067
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +12 22 £55,000 +15.79% 18
Yorkshire +61 7 £85,253 +100.59% 4
North East +43 2 £35,750 +2.14% 3
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.23%) SAP APO
1 1 (3.23%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Biml
1 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Selenium
2 10 (32.26%) JIRA
3 9 (29.03%) Postman
4 6 (19.35%) Git
5 5 (16.13%) Appium
5 5 (16.13%) JMeter
6 4 (12.90%) Fiddler
6 4 (12.90%) LoadRunner
6 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
7 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (6.45%) JUnit
7 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.23%) GitLab
8 1 (3.23%) Maven
8 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (3.23%) Spinnaker
8 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Cantonese Language
4 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
4 4 (12.90%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Law
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Games
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Tester
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Test Manager
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) QA Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Service Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Validation Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) QA Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (3.23%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) pytest
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Life Science
3 1 (3.23%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Online Games
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Test Automation
3 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Test Strategy
4 9 (29.03%) Fintech
5 7 (22.58%) Software Testing
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Business Analysis
7 5 (16.13%) Coaching
7 5 (16.13%) Code Quality
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Security Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (16.13%) User Experience
8 4 (12.90%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (12.90%) Regression Testing
8 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) CBAP
1 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (41.94%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) Basel III
3 1 (3.23%) GMP
3 1 (3.23%) IFRS
3 1 (3.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) CyberSource
3 1 (3.23%) SAP