Test Scripting Jobs

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 486 380
Rank change year-on-year +27 -106 +41
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 218 416 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.45% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.52% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 141 307 576
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,375
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,104 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.12% -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England +7 197 £55,000 +5.77% 289
UK excluding London +30 117 £49,104 +9.12% 159
London +64 94 £62,500 -6.72% 151
Work from Home +65 80 £57,500 +9.52% 128
North of England +75 35 £50,000 +5.26% 38
Midlands +40 31 £42,500 - 20
West Midlands +9 28 £42,500 - 13
North West +34 21 £49,500 - 22
South East +21 20 £52,500 +16.67% 38
Scotland +112 9 £42,500 -22.73% 10
Wales +43 9 £50,124 +20.78% 7
South West +78 8 £36,000 -34.55% 22
Yorkshire +62 8 £85,253 +70.51% 10
North East +41 6 £35,750 +2.14% 6
East of England +36 5 £70,000 +75.00% 22
East Midlands +50 3 £35,000 -23.91% 7

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.92%) Appian
2 2 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) SAP HR
2 7 (3.21%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.83%) iTrent
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.92%) Magento
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.46%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.46%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.46%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.64%) Azure
2 35 (16.06%) AWS
3 18 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.88%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.96%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.50%) Sauce Labs
7 8 (3.67%) Boomi
7 8 (3.67%) GitHub
7 8 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (2.75%) GCP
9 5 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.38%) PaaS
11 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.92%) SaaS
13 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.46%) DNS
1 1 (0.46%) Firewall
1 1 (0.46%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.59%) Power BI
4 5 (2.29%) Airbyte
4 5 (2.29%) Metadata
4 5 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (1.83%) Biml
5 4 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.92%) MySQL
6 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (23.85%) Selenium
2 32 (14.68%) Git
3 28 (12.84%) JIRA
4 23 (10.55%) Appium
5 21 (9.63%) Postman
6 19 (8.72%) Cypress.io
6 19 (8.72%) JUnit
7 18 (8.26%) JMeter
8 17 (7.80%) TestNG
9 15 (6.88%) SpecFlow
10 13 (5.96%) Jenkins
11 10 (4.59%) Cucumber
11 10 (4.59%) WebDriver
12 8 (3.67%) SoapUI
12 8 (3.67%) TestRail
13 7 (3.21%) Mocha
13 7 (3.21%) NUnit
14 6 (2.75%) LoadRunner
14 6 (2.75%) Maven
14 6 (2.75%) MSTest
General
1 63 (28.90%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (22.02%) Finance
3 44 (20.18%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.55%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (10.09%) Banking
6 13 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.96%) Law
7 12 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.50%) Retail
8 11 (5.05%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.13%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.29%) Legal
11 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.38%) Electronics
12 3 (1.38%) Marketing
12 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.92%) Advertising
13 2 (0.92%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 77 (35.32%) Analyst
2 40 (18.35%) Business Analyst
3 33 (15.14%) Senior
4 28 (12.84%) QA Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) Test Engineer
5 27 (12.39%) Tester
6 19 (8.72%) Test Analyst
7 18 (8.26%) Systems Analyst
8 15 (6.88%) Operations Analyst
8 15 (6.88%) Operations Business Analyst
9 13 (5.96%) Automation Tester
9 13 (5.96%) IT Analyst
10 12 (5.50%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Business IT Analyst
11 10 (4.59%) QA Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Software Tester
12 9 (4.13%) Business Systems Analyst
12 9 (4.13%) Consultant
12 9 (4.13%) Lead
12 9 (4.13%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.17%) Playwright
2 12 (5.50%) pytest
3 11 (5.05%) .NET
4 8 (3.67%) GraphQL
5 6 (2.75%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.75%) RESTful
5 6 (2.75%) Web Services
6 5 (2.29%) NumPy
6 5 (2.29%) Pandas
6 5 (2.29%) REST
6 5 (2.29%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (2.29%) Swagger
7 4 (1.83%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.83%) Jest
7 4 (1.83%) LDAP
8 3 (1.38%) WebdriverIO
9 2 (0.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 2 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.92%) JSON
9 2 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (5.50%) Operational Technology
2 12 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.05%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.75%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.29%) NHS
8 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.38%) FPGA
9 3 (1.38%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.92%) Derivative
10 2 (0.92%) Equities
10 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.46%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.88%) Linux
2 11 (5.05%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Android
4 7 (3.21%) Unix
5 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.92%) Test Automation
2 85 (38.99%) Agile
3 72 (33.03%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (26.15%) Software Testing
5 51 (23.39%) CI/CD
6 46 (21.10%) Test Strategy
7 45 (20.64%) Scenario Testing
8 34 (15.60%) DevOps
8 34 (15.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 33 (15.14%) Regression Testing
9 33 (15.14%) SDLC
10 32 (14.68%) Manual Testing
11 29 (13.30%) Business Analysis
12 24 (11.01%) API Testing
13 23 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (9.17%) Decision-Making
15 20 (9.17%) Mentoring
15 20 (9.17%) Project Management
15 20 (9.17%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.31%) SQL
2 36 (16.51%) Python
3 28 (12.84%) Java
4 26 (11.93%) C#
4 26 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.80%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.50%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.21%) C++
9 5 (2.29%) Groovy
9 5 (2.29%) Swift
10 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.46%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (12.84%) Degree
2 23 (10.55%) ISTQB
3 17 (7.80%) CBAP
3 17 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.92%) ISEB
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) CISSP
7 1 (0.46%) CSQA
7 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (49.08%) QA
2 6 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.75%) GDPR
2 6 (2.75%) SLA
3 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.92%) SEPA
4 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.46%) Basel III
4 1 (0.46%) GMP
4 1 (0.46%) IFRS
4 1 (0.46%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.46%) MiFID
4 1 (0.46%) PSD2
4 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.29%) Grafana
2 3 (1.38%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.38%) SCCM
3 2 (0.92%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 27 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.50%) SAP
3 8 (3.67%) Dell
4 7 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.75%) Oracle
6 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.38%) Adobe
7 3 (1.38%) BT
7 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.46%) FIS
8 1 (0.46%) HP
8 1 (0.46%) Mercator
8 1 (0.46%) UiPath
8 1 (0.46%) Workday