Test Scripting Job Trends in West Sussex

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 38 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +46
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 2 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.51% 2.93% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 3.66% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £63,250 £43,125 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £45,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% - -
75th Percentile £69,375 £48,750 -
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.26% +9.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 322 328 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.78% 80.20% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 226 168 313
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,853 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,375 £69,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £74,375 £75,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Scripting relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Scripting.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Test Scripting

Test Scripting
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £67,500 -
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) International Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA