Test Scripting Jobs in the North West

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 257 233
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 -42
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 22 31 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.32% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.38% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 17 30 38
10th Percentile - £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £58,250
90th Percentile £83,000 £66,250 £77,715
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,281 8,082 7,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.36% 83.10% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 6,147 3,943
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +82 15 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Lancashire - 5 £40,000 - 10
Merseyside +34 1 £67,500 +45.95% 1
Cumbria - 1 £22,500 - 4
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP APO
1 1 (4.55%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Selenium
2 7 (31.82%) Postman
3 6 (27.27%) JIRA
4 5 (22.73%) Appium
5 4 (18.18%) Fiddler
5 4 (18.18%) JMeter
5 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.55%) TestComplete
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Cantonese Language
3 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 4 (18.18%) Mandarin Language
3 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Law
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Tester
3 5 (22.73%) Business Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Test Manager
4 4 (18.18%) QA Tester
5 3 (13.64%) Service Manager
5 3 (13.64%) Test Validation Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Operations Business Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) QA Manager
6 2 (9.09%) QA Test Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Business IT Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Graduate
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior
7 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
1 1 (4.55%) pytest
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Online Games
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
2 9 (40.91%) Test Strategy
3 6 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Business Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
4 5 (22.73%) Fintech
4 5 (22.73%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (18.18%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (18.18%) Security Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (18.18%) User Experience
6 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) ITSM
6 3 (13.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CBAP
1 4 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) GMP
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP