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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 482 378
Rank change year-on-year +13 -104 +46
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 217 422 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.53% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 140 310 577
10th Percentile £29,700 £32,500 £35,450
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £69,063 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,052 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% -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 47,236 80,210 105,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 86.88% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 57,895 61,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,045
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 +1 196 £55,000 +4.76% 301
UK excluding London +48 116 £47,052 +4.56% 170
London +74 94 £62,500 -6.72% 156
Work from Home +57 80 £57,500 +9.52% 133
North of England +76 34 £47,000 -1.05% 39
Midlands +35 31 £42,500 - 19
West Midlands +18 28 £42,500 - 11
North West +38 20 £44,000 -11.11% 22
South East +27 20 £52,500 +16.67% 43
Scotland +108 9 £42,500 -22.73% 11
Wales +45 9 £50,124 +35.28% 7
South West +76 8 £36,000 -34.55% 22
Yorkshire +54 8 £85,253 +62.39% 11
North East +38 6 £35,750 +2.14% 6
East of England +43 5 £70,000 +75.00% 26
East Midlands +50 3 £35,000 -23.91% 8

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 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.92%) Appian
2 2 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.69%) SAP HR
2 7 (3.23%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.84%) iTrent
3 4 (1.84%) 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 44 (20.28%) Azure
2 34 (15.67%) AWS
3 18 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.99%) BrowserStack
6 12 (5.53%) Sauce Labs
7 8 (3.69%) Boomi
7 8 (3.69%) GitHub
7 8 (3.69%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.30%) GCP
9 4 (1.84%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.38%) PaaS
10 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.92%) SaaS
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
12 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 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.61%) Power BI
4 5 (2.30%) Airbyte
4 5 (2.30%) Metadata
4 5 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (1.84%) Biml
5 4 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.46%) MySQL
7 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (23.50%) Selenium
2 32 (14.75%) Git
3 27 (12.44%) JIRA
4 22 (10.14%) Appium
5 20 (9.22%) Postman
6 19 (8.76%) Cypress.io
6 19 (8.76%) JUnit
7 17 (7.83%) JMeter
7 17 (7.83%) TestNG
8 15 (6.91%) SpecFlow
9 13 (5.99%) Jenkins
10 10 (4.61%) Cucumber
10 10 (4.61%) WebDriver
11 8 (3.69%) SoapUI
11 8 (3.69%) TestRail
12 7 (3.23%) Mocha
12 7 (3.23%) NUnit
13 6 (2.76%) Maven
13 6 (2.76%) MSTest
14 5 (2.30%) LoadRunner
General
1 63 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (21.66%) Finance
3 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.60%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (10.14%) Banking
6 13 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.99%) Law
7 12 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.53%) Retail
8 11 (5.07%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.15%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.30%) Legal
11 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.38%) Electronics
12 3 (1.38%) Marketing
12 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.92%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (35.48%) Analyst
2 40 (18.43%) Business Analyst
3 33 (15.21%) Senior
4 28 (12.90%) QA Engineer
4 28 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 26 (11.98%) Tester
6 19 (8.76%) Test Analyst
7 18 (8.29%) Systems Analyst
8 15 (6.91%) Operations Analyst
8 15 (6.91%) Operations Business Analyst
9 13 (5.99%) Automation Tester
9 13 (5.99%) IT Analyst
10 12 (5.53%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Business IT Analyst
11 10 (4.61%) QA Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) Software Tester
12 9 (4.15%) Business Systems Analyst
12 9 (4.15%) Lead
12 9 (4.15%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (4.15%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.22%) Playwright
2 12 (5.53%) pytest
3 11 (5.07%) .NET
4 8 (3.69%) GraphQL
5 6 (2.76%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.76%) RESTful
5 6 (2.76%) Web Services
6 5 (2.30%) NumPy
6 5 (2.30%) Pandas
6 5 (2.30%) REST
6 5 (2.30%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (2.30%) Swagger
7 4 (1.84%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.84%) Jest
7 4 (1.84%) 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%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (5.53%) Operational Technology
2 12 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.07%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.07%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.76%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.30%) NHS
8 4 (1.84%) 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%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.45%) Linux
2 11 (5.07%) Windows
3 9 (4.15%) Android
4 7 (3.23%) Unix
5 6 (2.76%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (50.69%) Test Automation
2 84 (38.71%) Agile
3 72 (33.18%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (26.27%) Software Testing
5 50 (23.04%) CI/CD
6 45 (20.74%) Scenario Testing
6 45 (20.74%) Test Strategy
7 34 (15.67%) DevOps
7 34 (15.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 33 (15.21%) Regression Testing
8 33 (15.21%) SDLC
9 32 (14.75%) Manual Testing
10 29 (13.36%) Business Analysis
11 24 (11.06%) API Testing
12 23 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (9.22%) Decision-Making
14 20 (9.22%) Mentoring
14 20 (9.22%) Project Management
14 20 (9.22%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.42%) SQL
2 35 (16.13%) Python
3 27 (12.44%) Java
4 26 (11.98%) C#
5 25 (11.52%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.53%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.23%) C++
10 5 (2.30%) Groovy
10 5 (2.30%) Swift
11 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.46%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (12.90%) Degree
2 22 (10.14%) ISTQB
3 17 (7.83%) CBAP
3 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (4.15%) 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
1 106 (48.85%) QA
2 6 (2.76%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.76%) GDPR
2 6 (2.76%) 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 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) 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 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.53%) SAP
3 8 (3.69%) Dell
4 7 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.30%) Oracle
5 5 (2.30%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.38%) Adobe
6 3 (1.38%) BT
6 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) FIS
7 1 (0.46%) HP
7 1 (0.46%) Mercator
7 1 (0.46%) UiPath
7 1 (0.46%) Workday