Test Scripting Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 482 391
Rank change year-on-year +26 -91 -72
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 130 285 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.40% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.48% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 85 186 222
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,050
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.94% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +61 38 £45,000 -5.26% 21
West Midlands +51 34 £45,000 -7.69% 17
North of England +36 32 £55,000 +22.22% 36
North West -7 23 £55,000 +15.79% 26
South East +14 21 £52,500 +31.25% 66
South West +87 11 £37,000 -28.50% 13
East of England +35 10 £53,000 +32.50% 20
Scotland +104 9 £42,500 -32.00% 6
Wales +41 8 £50,124 +15.89% 5
Yorkshire +57 7 £85,253 +100.59% 8
East Midlands +43 4 £35,000 +1.45% 3
North East +42 2 £35,750 +2.14% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (3.85%) SAP HR
3 3 (2.31%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.54%) Magento
4 2 (1.54%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.77%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.77%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.77%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.77%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.77%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.92%) Azure
2 15 (11.54%) AWS
3 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.38%) GitHub
4 6 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.85%) Boomi
5 5 (3.85%) GCP
5 5 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (3.08%) BrowserStack
6 4 (3.08%) SaaS
7 3 (2.31%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.54%) PaaS
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.77%) Serverless
9 1 (0.77%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) DHCP
1 2 (1.54%) DNS
1 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.77%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.77%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Biml
2 4 (3.08%) MySQL
2 4 (3.08%) Power BI
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.31%) Airbyte
3 3 (2.31%) Metadata
3 3 (2.31%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (32.31%) Selenium
2 28 (21.54%) JIRA
3 18 (13.85%) Postman
4 15 (11.54%) JMeter
5 14 (10.77%) Appium
6 12 (9.23%) Git
7 10 (7.69%) Jenkins
7 10 (7.69%) SpecFlow
8 7 (5.38%) WebDriver
9 6 (4.62%) Cypress.io
9 6 (4.62%) Visual Studio
10 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.85%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.85%) SoapUI
11 4 (3.08%) Fiddler
11 4 (3.08%) JUnit
11 4 (3.08%) Maven
12 3 (2.31%) TestComplete
13 2 (1.54%) GitLab
13 2 (1.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 38 (29.23%) Finance
4 14 (10.77%) Law
5 13 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (8.46%) Banking
6 11 (8.46%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Legal
7 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.62%) Retail
8 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Cantonese Language
9 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.08%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.54%) Electronics
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.77%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 40 (30.77%) Analyst
2 27 (20.77%) Senior
3 24 (18.46%) Test Engineer
4 21 (16.15%) Business Analyst
5 16 (12.31%) Test Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Tester
7 10 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Consultant
8 8 (6.15%) Lead
8 8 (6.15%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (6.15%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) CRM Systems Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Finance Business Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Financial Business Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Operations Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Operations Business Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.08%) Playwright
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
3 6 (4.62%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.31%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.31%) NumPy
5 3 (2.31%) Pandas
5 3 (2.31%) RESTful
5 3 (2.31%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (2.31%) Web Services
6 2 (1.54%) ADO
6 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.54%) pytest
6 2 (1.54%) SOAP
6 2 (1.54%) Swagger
7 1 (0.77%) CSS
7 1 (0.77%) HTML
7 1 (0.77%) LDAP
7 1 (0.77%) REST
7 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.38%) Taxonomies
3 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.08%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.31%) NHS
7 2 (1.54%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.77%) FPGA
8 1 (0.77%) GNSS
8 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.77%) PKI
8 1 (0.77%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 56 (43.08%) Agile
3 45 (34.62%) Software Testing
4 41 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (29.23%) Scenario Testing
6 31 (23.85%) Test Strategy
7 28 (21.54%) Project Management
8 27 (20.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 26 (20.00%) Regression Testing
10 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
11 21 (16.15%) DevOps
11 21 (16.15%) Manual Testing
12 19 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (13.85%) Process Improvement
13 18 (13.85%) Requirements Gathering
14 17 (13.08%) SDLC
15 16 (12.31%) API Testing
16 15 (11.54%) Fintech
17 13 (10.00%) System Testing
18 12 (9.23%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.08%) SQL
2 21 (16.15%) Java
2 21 (16.15%) Python
3 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.62%) C#
5 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.38%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.08%) C++
8 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 3 (2.31%) Groovy
8 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.54%) Perl
9 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.77%) ABAP
10 1 (0.77%) C
10 1 (0.77%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.77%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) ISTQB
2 12 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (6.15%) CBAP
6 3 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.31%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) CCA
8 1 (0.77%) CSQA
8 1 (0.77%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (39.23%) QA
2 6 (4.62%) SLA
3 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.31%) GDPR
5 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.54%) GxP
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.77%) Basel III
6 1 (0.77%) GMP
6 1 (0.77%) IFRS
6 1 (0.77%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.77%) SEPA
6 1 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Grafana
2 2 (1.54%) Ansible
2 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.54%) Puppet
2 2 (1.54%) SCOM
3 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.69%) SAP
3 7 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.85%) Dell
4 5 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.08%) Oracle
6 3 (2.31%) BT
7 2 (1.54%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.54%) Splunk
8 1 (0.77%) Concur
8 1 (0.77%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.77%) UiPath