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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 492 399
Rank change year-on-year +30 -93 -83
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 130 280 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.39% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.47% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 89 179 225
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £44,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £68,750
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 37,036 59,839 56,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.94% 83.54% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,067 41,285 29,232
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 20 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 20 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 +52 38 £45,000 -10.00% 20
West Midlands +52 34 £45,000 -10.00% 14
North of England +23 33 £55,000 +22.22% 39
North West -15 25 £55,000 +15.79% 28
South East +6 20 £52,500 +35.48% 63
East of England +29 13 £53,000 +32.50% 22
South West +85 10 £40,750 -27.56% 15
Scotland +119 9 £42,500 -32.00% 10
Wales +40 7 £50,124 +15.89% 3
Yorkshire +56 6 £85,253 +100.59% 9
East Midlands +25 4 £35,000 +1.45% 5
North East +37 2 £35,750 +2.14% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
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 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (3.85%) SAP IBP
2 5 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.08%) SAP HR
3 4 (3.08%) SAP PP
4 2 (1.54%) Magento
4 2 (1.54%) SAP EHS
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 20 (15.38%) Azure
2 13 (10.00%) 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 4 (3.08%) Boomi
5 4 (3.08%) BrowserStack
5 4 (3.08%) GCP
5 4 (3.08%) SaaS
5 4 (3.08%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (2.31%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.54%) PaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.77%) Serverless
8 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 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (4.62%) 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 2 (1.54%) Airbyte
3 2 (1.54%) Metadata
3 2 (1.54%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (1.54%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (31.54%) Selenium
2 30 (23.08%) JIRA
3 17 (13.08%) Postman
4 14 (10.77%) JMeter
5 13 (10.00%) Appium
6 10 (7.69%) Git
7 9 (6.92%) SpecFlow
8 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
9 7 (5.38%) WebDriver
10 6 (4.62%) Cypress.io
10 6 (4.62%) Visual Studio
11 5 (3.85%) LoadRunner
11 5 (3.85%) SoapUI
12 4 (3.08%) Cucumber
12 4 (3.08%) Fiddler
13 3 (2.31%) TestComplete
14 2 (1.54%) GitLab
14 2 (1.54%) JUnit
14 2 (1.54%) Maven
14 2 (1.54%) NUnit
General
1 43 (33.08%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 37 (28.46%) Finance
4 17 (13.08%) Law
5 13 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (7.69%) Banking
8 9 (6.92%) Legal
9 8 (6.15%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.85%) Retail
11 4 (3.08%) Cantonese Language
11 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
11 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (3.08%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.54%) Electronics
12 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.77%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Analyst
2 29 (22.31%) Senior
3 22 (16.92%) Business Analyst
3 22 (16.92%) Test Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) Test Analyst
5 13 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Tester
6 11 (8.46%) Software Test Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Lead
8 9 (6.92%) Senior Test Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Consultant
10 7 (5.38%) CRM Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) CRM Business Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Finance Business Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Financial Business Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Operations Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.08%) Playwright
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
3 5 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.54%) ADO
5 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.54%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.54%) NumPy
5 2 (1.54%) Pandas
5 2 (1.54%) pytest
5 2 (1.54%) RESTful
5 2 (1.54%) SOAP
5 2 (1.54%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.54%) Swagger
5 2 (1.54%) Web Services
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Cordova
6 1 (0.77%) CSS
6 1 (0.77%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (0.77%) LDAP
6 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.38%) Taxonomies
3 5 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.08%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.54%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.54%) NHS
5 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.77%) AS400
6 1 (0.77%) Blog
6 1 (0.77%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.77%) EPoS
6 1 (0.77%) Life Science
6 1 (0.77%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Linux
2 6 (4.62%) Windows
3 4 (3.08%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) Test Automation
2 58 (44.62%) Agile
3 46 (35.38%) Software Testing
4 38 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (27.69%) Scenario Testing
6 31 (23.85%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (23.08%) Project Management
8 27 (20.77%) Test Strategy
9 24 (18.46%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.46%) Manual Testing
10 23 (17.69%) Regression Testing
11 21 (16.15%) Process Improvement
12 20 (15.38%) DevOps
13 19 (14.62%) Requirements Gathering
13 19 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (11.54%) API Testing
14 15 (11.54%) SDLC
15 14 (10.77%) Fintech
16 11 (8.46%) Defect Tracking
16 11 (8.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.00%) SQL
2 19 (14.62%) JavaScript
2 19 (14.62%) Python
3 18 (13.85%) C#
3 18 (13.85%) Java
4 7 (5.38%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.08%) C++
7 3 (2.31%) Bash
7 3 (2.31%) Groovy
8 2 (1.54%) Perl
8 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.77%) ABAP
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.77%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) CBAP
4 8 (6.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) CCA
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) CSQA
7 1 (0.77%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (40.00%) QA
2 6 (4.62%) SLA
3 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) GxP
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.77%) GMP
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.77%) SEPA
5 1 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
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
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) SAP
3 7 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.08%) Dell
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle
4 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.31%) BT
6 2 (1.54%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) Concur
7 1 (0.77%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.77%) UiPath