Test Scripting Jobs in the South East

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 283 277
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 107 133 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.88% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.93% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43 53 135
10th Percentile £31,300 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £72,900 £66,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the South East

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +9 50 £37,500 -21.05% 7
Thames Valley +18 47 £52,500 +34.62% 8
Buckinghamshire -5 24 £56,250 +33.93% 3
Berkshire +31 21 £52,500 - 5
Surrey 0 7 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Kent +3 2 £31,250 -
Oxfordshire -12 2 £37,500 +7.14%
West Sussex +5 1 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.74%) TWiki
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.87%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.28%) SaaS
2 8 (7.48%) Azure
3 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.80%) GitHub
5 2 (1.87%) Boomi
5 2 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.93%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.56%) 5G
1 22 (20.56%) Bluetooth
1 22 (20.56%) GSM
1 22 (20.56%) ISDN
1 22 (20.56%) LTE
1 22 (20.56%) PSTN
1 22 (20.56%) UMTS
1 22 (20.56%) Wi-Fi
1 22 (20.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 45 (42.06%) Selenium
2 22 (20.56%) LabVIEW
3 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.28%) JIRA
5 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.61%) JBehave
6 6 (5.61%) SpecFlow
6 6 (5.61%) TeamCity
7 4 (3.74%) eggPlant
8 3 (2.80%) Git
8 3 (2.80%) JMeter
8 3 (2.80%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.80%) Postman
9 2 (1.87%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.93%) JUnit
10 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 23 (21.50%) Aerospace
1 23 (21.50%) Telecoms
2 22 (20.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (10.28%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Retail
6 4 (3.74%) Electronics
7 3 (2.80%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Finance
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Tester
2 23 (21.50%) Automation Tester
2 23 (21.50%) Test Engineer
3 15 (14.02%) Hardware Engineer
4 14 (13.08%) Analyst
5 12 (11.21%) QA Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Test Analyst
6 11 (10.28%) QA Analyst
7 9 (8.41%) QA Test Analyst
8 8 (7.48%) Administrator
8 8 (7.48%) Hardware Test Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow Specialist
10 6 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Hardware Technician
11 5 (4.67%) QA Test Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Systems Test Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) Automation Test Analyst
13 3 (2.80%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) Gherkin
2 5 (4.67%) Middleware
3 3 (2.80%) RESTful
3 3 (2.80%) Swagger
3 3 (2.80%) Web Services
4 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Commons
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.93%) COM
5 1 (0.93%) Guava
5 1 (0.93%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (0.93%) Playwright
5 1 (0.93%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.56%) Acoustics
1 22 (20.56%) Satnav
2 6 (5.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.93%) FPGA
3 1 (0.93%) GNSS
3 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.93%) IoT
3 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (75.70%) Test Automation
2 71 (66.36%) Agile
3 50 (46.73%) Coaching
4 30 (28.04%) Mentoring
5 27 (25.23%) Actionable Insight
5 27 (25.23%) Collaborative Working
5 27 (25.23%) Test Assurance
6 24 (22.43%) Software Testing
6 24 (22.43%) Technical Analysis
7 23 (21.50%) Requirements Analysis
8 22 (20.56%) Critical Thinking
8 22 (20.56%) Data Management
9 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
9 16 (14.95%) Test Strategy
10 14 (13.08%) ITSM
10 14 (13.08%) Service Catalogue
10 14 (13.08%) Service Delivery
10 14 (13.08%) User Experience
10 14 (13.08%) Waterfall
11 13 (12.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) Python
2 5 (4.67%) Java
2 5 (4.67%) SQL
3 4 (3.74%) C
3 4 (3.74%) C#
4 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 46 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.10%) Degree
3 28 (26.17%) DV Cleared
4 25 (23.36%) SC Cleared
5 14 (13.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.93%) ISEB
6 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (62.62%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.87%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) Sitecore