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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 526 397
Rank change year-on-year +33 -129 +30
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 223 402 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 152 288 500
10th Percentile £32,050 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,188 £44,403
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,725 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,124 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.94% -15.00% +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 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 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
England +14 197 £53,000 +6.00% 235
UK excluding London +38 126 £50,124 +17.94% 163
Work from Home +80 85 £53,000 +0.95% 133
London +91 79 £61,500 -12.14% 100
Midlands +38 38 £45,000 -2.70% 19
West Midlands +35 34 £45,000 -5.26% 15
North of England +43 31 £55,000 +22.22% 33
North West -4 22 £55,000 +15.79% 26
South East +23 21 £52,500 +27.27% 64
South West +102 10 £37,000 -32.73% 17
East of England +38 9 £53,000 +32.50% 19
Scotland +117 8 £42,500 -32.00% 4
Wales +40 8 £50,124 +15.89% 3
Yorkshire +47 7 £85,253 +100.59% 5
East Midlands +40 4 £35,000 +1.45% 3
North East +45 2 £35,750 +2.14% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.90%) Appian
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) Acrobat
3 3 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (5.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.24%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.79%) iTrent
4 3 (1.35%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.90%) Magento
5 2 (0.90%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.45%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.45%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.08%) Azure
2 30 (13.45%) AWS
3 17 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 12 (5.38%) GCP
6 10 (4.48%) GitHub
7 8 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.14%) BrowserStack
9 6 (2.69%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (2.24%) Boomi
10 5 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.35%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.35%) SaaS
13 2 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.90%) PaaS
14 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) DHCP
1 2 (0.90%) DNS
1 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.45%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.04%) Power BI
2 9 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.79%) Biml
3 4 (1.79%) MySQL
3 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.35%) Airbyte
4 3 (1.35%) Metadata
4 3 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (30.04%) Selenium
2 40 (17.94%) JIRA
3 24 (10.76%) Appium
4 23 (10.31%) Postman
5 22 (9.87%) JMeter
6 21 (9.42%) Cypress.io
6 21 (9.42%) Git
7 15 (6.73%) SpecFlow
8 13 (5.83%) JUnit
9 11 (4.93%) Jenkins
9 11 (4.93%) WebDriver
10 10 (4.48%) Cucumber
10 10 (4.48%) TestNG
11 9 (4.04%) SoapUI
12 8 (3.59%) LoadRunner
13 7 (3.14%) NUnit
14 6 (2.69%) Maven
14 6 (2.69%) Mocha
14 6 (2.69%) TestRail
15 5 (2.24%) MSTest
General
1 72 (32.29%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 51 (22.87%) Finance
4 20 (8.97%) Law
5 18 (8.07%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.73%) Banking
7 13 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (5.83%) Retail
8 12 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.93%) Legal
10 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
11 8 (3.59%) Cantonese Language
11 8 (3.59%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (3.14%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.35%) Electronics
14 3 (1.35%) Environmental Health
14 3 (1.35%) Marketing
14 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 72 (32.29%) Analyst
2 39 (17.49%) Senior
3 36 (16.14%) Business Analyst
3 36 (16.14%) Test Engineer
4 32 (14.35%) QA Engineer
5 29 (13.00%) Tester
6 21 (9.42%) Systems Analyst
6 21 (9.42%) Test Analyst
7 13 (5.83%) Lead
8 12 (5.38%) Automation Tester
8 12 (5.38%) Consultant
8 12 (5.38%) CRM Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) CRM Business Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) CRM Systems Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Finance Business Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Financial Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Financial Business Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Senior QA Engineer
8 12 (5.38%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.00%) Playwright
2 11 (4.93%) .NET
3 8 (3.59%) GraphQL
3 8 (3.59%) pytest
4 6 (2.69%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.69%) Web Services
5 5 (2.24%) Swagger
6 4 (1.79%) Gherkin
6 4 (1.79%) REST
6 4 (1.79%) RESTful
7 3 (1.35%) Jest
7 3 (1.35%) NumPy
7 3 (1.35%) Pandas
7 3 (1.35%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (1.35%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (0.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.90%) SOAP
8 2 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.73%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.38%) Taxonomies
4 10 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.69%) NHS
6 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.69%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.35%) FPGA
8 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.90%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.90%) Derivative
9 2 (0.90%) Equities
9 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.28%) Linux
2 9 (4.04%) Windows
3 5 (2.24%) Unix
4 4 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (51.57%) Test Automation
2 107 (47.98%) Agile
3 72 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (30.49%) Software Testing
5 52 (23.32%) CI/CD
6 51 (22.87%) Scenario Testing
7 50 (22.42%) Test Strategy
8 42 (18.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 39 (17.49%) Manual Testing
9 39 (17.49%) Regression Testing
10 37 (16.59%) DevOps
11 35 (15.70%) SDLC
12 34 (15.25%) Project Management
13 31 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (12.56%) Process Improvement
15 24 (10.76%) API Testing
15 24 (10.76%) Mentoring
15 24 (10.76%) Requirements Gathering
15 24 (10.76%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.52%) SQL
2 40 (17.94%) Python
3 35 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.90%) Java
5 28 (12.56%) C#
6 18 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.48%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.14%) C++
9 6 (2.69%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.79%) Groovy
11 3 (1.35%) Bash
12 2 (0.90%) Perl
12 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) ABAP
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.45%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (17.04%) ISTQB
2 26 (11.66%) Degree
3 13 (5.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 13 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.93%) CBAP
5 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CCA
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) CSQA
9 1 (0.45%) ISEB
9 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (48.88%) QA
2 7 (3.14%) GDPR
3 6 (2.69%) SLA
4 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) GxP
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.90%) SEPA
5 2 (0.90%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) Basel III
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) GMP
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Grafana
2 3 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) SCCM
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
3 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.90%) Puppet
3 2 (0.90%) SCOM
4 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.83%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.38%) SAP
4 5 (2.24%) Dell
4 5 (2.24%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle
6 3 (1.35%) Adobe
6 3 (1.35%) BT
7 2 (0.90%) ArcSight
7 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.90%) Splunk
8 1 (0.45%) Concur
8 1 (0.45%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.45%) FIS
8 1 (0.45%) Mercator
8 1 (0.45%) UiPath
8 1 (0.45%) Workday