Test Scripting Jobs in the South West

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 171 264 209
Rank change year-on-year +93 -55 -25
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 10 32 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% 0.35% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.41% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 40
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £55,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% -0.45% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49,250 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £57,250 £72,500 -
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
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,230 7,756 6,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.44% 84.08% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 5,562 3,637
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,850 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the South West

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +58 3 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Dorset +37 3 £31,500 -50.00% 3
Wiltshire +46 2 £36,000 +10.77% 2
Gloucestershire +68 1 £44,500 -44.38% 9
Devon - 1 £52,500 -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) JUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) TestRail
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (10.00%) EPoS
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Fintech
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) System Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft