Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 380 290 402
Rank change year-on-year -90 +112 -77
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 395 1,615 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.28% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.33% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 302 741 803
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,550
25th Percentile £41,563 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,131 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,875 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £69,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +8.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,664 120,987 123,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,731 73,454 82,144
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,347 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Top 17 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 30 November 2023. 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 -92 367 £53,500 +0.94% 136
UK excluding London -110 234 £52,500 +5.00% 93
Work from Home +19 165 £55,000 +4.76% 75
London -4 124 £55,000 -8.33% 53
South East +22 86 £54,763 +4.81% 34
South West +5 60 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Midlands +28 37 £39,788 -8.53% 10
North of England -50 31 £52,500 +5.00% 25
West Midlands +58 29 £39,788 -8.53% 6
East of England +25 17 £38,750 -28.24% 12
Yorkshire +20 15 £65,000 +41.30% 9
North West -18 15 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Scotland +7 9 £40,000 -20.00% 4
East Midlands +23 8 £52,500 +35.48% 4
Northern Ireland +40 4 - -
Wales -7 2 £32,603 -20.96% 1
North East +6 1 - - 5

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 35 (8.86%) Confluence
2 22 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.76%) IIS
4 2 (0.51%) Apache
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.25%) Tornado
5 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.29%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.03%) Windchill
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.01%) iTrent
3 3 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.51%) Endur
4 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.51%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.25%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 79 (20.00%) Azure
2 45 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (10.63%) AWS
4 24 (6.08%) GitHub
5 22 (5.57%) BlazeMeter
6 15 (3.80%) SaaS
7 14 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (3.29%) Serverless
9 12 (3.04%) AWS CodeCommit
9 12 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.77%) AWS CloudTrail
11 7 (1.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 7 (1.77%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.77%) BrowserStack
12 6 (1.52%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.04%) AMQP
2 11 (2.78%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.76%) MPLS
4 2 (0.51%) HTTP
4 2 (0.51%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.51%) LTE
4 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 1 (0.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.82%) Oracle Database
3 22 (5.57%) Oracle Database 10g
3 22 (5.57%) Oracle Database 11g
4 12 (3.04%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.27%) Power BI
8 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.76%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.51%) Metadata
11 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 83 (21.01%) JIRA
2 75 (18.99%) Selenium
3 49 (12.41%) Postman
4 44 (11.14%) Cucumber
5 33 (8.35%) Git
5 33 (8.35%) JMeter
6 31 (7.85%) SoapUI
7 30 (7.59%) eggPlant
8 28 (7.09%) Jenkins
9 27 (6.84%) REST Assured
10 25 (6.33%) LoadRunner
11 24 (6.08%) JUnit
12 22 (5.57%) The Grinder
13 19 (4.81%) Cypress.io
13 19 (4.81%) GitLab
14 17 (4.30%) Appium
14 17 (4.30%) TestRail
15 16 (4.05%) Protractor
16 15 (3.80%) Maven
16 15 (3.80%) SpecFlow
General
1 92 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.67%) Finance
3 49 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.33%) Banking
6 19 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.80%) Retail
8 13 (3.29%) Aerospace
9 12 (3.04%) Law
10 9 (2.28%) Automotive
11 8 (2.03%) Legal
11 8 (2.03%) Marketing
12 7 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.52%) Publishing
14 5 (1.27%) Electronics
15 4 (1.01%) Games
15 4 (1.01%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (23.29%) Analyst
2 67 (16.96%) Tester
3 50 (12.66%) Test Analyst
4 46 (11.65%) Lead
5 42 (10.63%) Senior
6 39 (9.87%) Test Engineer
7 28 (7.09%) Developer
7 28 (7.09%) Test Leader
8 26 (6.58%) QA Engineer
8 26 (6.58%) ServiceNow Specialist
9 25 (6.33%) Automation Tester
10 24 (6.08%) Business Analyst
11 21 (5.32%) Software Tester
12 17 (4.30%) Automation Test Analyst
13 15 (3.80%) QA Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.54%) Consultant
14 14 (3.54%) Java Automation Tester
14 14 (3.54%) QA Tester
14 14 (3.54%) Software Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.35%) Middleware
2 28 (7.09%) Gherkin
3 24 (6.08%) .NET
3 24 (6.08%) XML
4 15 (3.80%) JSON
4 15 (3.80%) WireMock
5 14 (3.54%) Flask
5 14 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (3.29%) Swagger
7 12 (3.04%) LDAP
7 12 (3.04%) OpenAPI
8 11 (2.78%) REST
9 9 (2.28%) CSS
9 9 (2.28%) HTML
10 8 (2.03%) Node.js
11 7 (1.77%) Kafka
11 7 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (1.27%) SOAP
12 5 (1.27%) Spring
13 4 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.77%) Reference Data
4 6 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.52%) IoT
5 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.27%) PMI
6 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.76%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.51%) Oculus
8 2 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.61%) Linux
2 20 (5.06%) Windows
3 12 (3.04%) Unix
4 7 (1.77%) Android
5 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (50.38%) Test Automation
2 195 (49.37%) Agile
3 116 (29.37%) DevOps
4 108 (27.34%) Software Testing
5 61 (15.44%) Scrum
6 60 (15.19%) BDD
6 60 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (15.19%) User Acceptance Testing
7 59 (14.94%) Test Management
8 58 (14.68%) CI/CD
8 58 (14.68%) SDLC
9 57 (14.43%) Coaching
10 56 (14.18%) ITIL
10 56 (14.18%) Regression Testing
11 52 (13.16%) Customer Service
12 51 (12.91%) Waterfall
13 49 (12.41%) Test Strategy
14 46 (11.65%) Service Delivery
15 44 (11.14%) Defect Management
16 41 (10.38%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.01%) SQL
2 82 (20.76%) Python
3 75 (18.99%) Java
4 67 (16.96%) C#
5 45 (11.39%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.58%) C
7 21 (5.32%) Bash
8 16 (4.05%) Groovy
9 13 (3.29%) Perl
10 12 (3.04%) Tcl
10 12 (3.04%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.28%) C++
12 8 (2.03%) VBScript
13 6 (1.52%) PHP
14 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.27%) VB
15 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.51%) Scala
16 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 97 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 91 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 62 (15.70%) ISTQB
4 41 (10.38%) Degree
5 37 (9.37%) ISEB
6 31 (7.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.77%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.76%) CCNA
13 3 (0.76%) CCNP
13 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (32.66%) QA
2 10 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.28%) PMO
4 6 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
5 4 (1.01%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.51%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.01%) Firmware
3 2 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.82%) HP Quality Center
3 17 (4.30%) Ansible
4 9 (2.28%) Grafana
5 7 (1.77%) Terraform
6 5 (1.27%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.76%) Iperf
8 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (11.90%) Oracle
2 43 (10.89%) ServiceNow
3 36 (9.11%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.33%) HP
5 19 (4.81%) SAP
6 12 (3.04%) MKS
7 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.01%) OpenText
8 4 (1.01%) Siebel
9 3 (0.76%) Cisco
9 3 (0.76%) Juniper
9 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.51%) Ariba
10 2 (0.51%) Concur
10 2 (0.51%) IBM
10 2 (0.51%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.51%) Workday
11 1 (0.25%) Databricks
11 1 (0.25%) Temenos
11 1 (0.25%) VMware