Test Scripting Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 405 363
Rank change year-on-year -2 -42 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 183 294 629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.69% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 127 255 422
10th Percentile £33,250 £39,563 £32,775
25th Percentile £39,674 £50,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,270
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.63% -1.46%
75th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £59,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,115 £68,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,001 40,855 65,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.62% 96.09% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,546 28,388 41,415
10th Percentile £33,759 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Scripting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Test Scripting salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.01%) SAP HR
2 6 (3.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.09%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.55%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.55%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.30%) Azure
2 25 (13.66%) AWS
3 19 (10.38%) GitHub
4 18 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.20%) Serverless
6 13 (7.10%) SaaS
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (6.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 12 (6.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 12 (6.56%) Azure AKS
8 11 (6.01%) Boomi
8 11 (6.01%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (3.28%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.19%) PaaS
12 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.55%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) 4G
3 1 (0.55%) 5G
3 1 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.55%) LTE
3 1 (0.55%) MQTT
3 1 (0.55%) Multicast
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.19%) Redis
4 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.64%) Power BI
4 3 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.55%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (32.24%) Selenium
2 36 (19.67%) JIRA
3 21 (11.48%) Postman
4 14 (7.65%) Cucumber
5 13 (7.10%) Jenkins
6 11 (6.01%) Cypress.io
7 10 (5.46%) SpecFlow
8 9 (4.92%) JMeter
9 8 (4.37%) Git
10 6 (3.28%) JBehave
10 6 (3.28%) TeamCity
11 5 (2.73%) GitLab
11 5 (2.73%) LoadRunner
11 5 (2.73%) TestRail
12 4 (2.19%) JUnit
12 4 (2.19%) Katalon Studio
13 3 (1.64%) Appium
13 3 (1.64%) TestNG
13 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.58%) Finance
3 21 (11.48%) Aerospace
4 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (7.10%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.10%) Retail
7 9 (4.92%) Law
8 8 (4.37%) Police
9 4 (2.19%) Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.64%) Legal
10 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Back Office
11 2 (1.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 43 (23.50%) Tester
2 37 (20.22%) Analyst
3 36 (19.67%) Senior
4 24 (13.11%) Test Engineer
5 23 (12.57%) Automation Tester
6 20 (10.93%) QA Engineer
6 20 (10.93%) Test Analyst
7 15 (8.20%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (7.65%) Consultant
9 13 (7.10%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Senior Consultant
11 11 (6.01%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 10 (5.46%) Lead
12 10 (5.46%) Software Tester
13 8 (4.37%) Senior Test Analyst
13 8 (4.37%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.56%) .NET
1 12 (6.56%) Gherkin
1 12 (6.56%) Middleware
2 8 (4.37%) Node.js
3 7 (3.83%) HTML
3 7 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.83%) XML
4 6 (3.28%) Spring
4 6 (3.28%) Web Services
5 5 (2.73%) Nightwatchjs
5 5 (2.73%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (2.19%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.19%) XSLT
7 3 (1.64%) Swagger
8 2 (1.09%) REST
8 2 (1.09%) RESTful
9 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.55%) Behat
9 1 (0.55%) Laravel
9 1 (0.55%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.73%) Replication
5 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.19%) NHS
6 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) FMCG
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.02%) Windows
2 18 (9.84%) Linux
3 7 (3.83%) Android
4 6 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) CentOS
5 1 (0.55%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (60.66%) Test Automation
2 78 (42.62%) Agile
3 49 (26.78%) DevOps
4 47 (25.68%) Software Testing
5 44 (24.04%) CI/CD
6 39 (21.31%) Collaborative Working
7 36 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.58%) Regression Testing
9 32 (17.49%) Mentoring
10 30 (16.39%) Coaching
10 30 (16.39%) User Acceptance Testing
11 27 (14.75%) Manual Testing
12 26 (14.21%) Performance Testing
13 23 (12.57%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (12.57%) BDD
13 23 (12.57%) Requirements Analysis
13 23 (12.57%) Technical Analysis
13 23 (12.57%) Test Assurance
14 22 (12.02%) API Testing
15 21 (11.48%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.39%) SQL
2 24 (13.11%) Python
3 23 (12.57%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.93%) C#
5 16 (8.74%) Java
6 13 (7.10%) Bash
7 7 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.73%) C
8 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.19%) Groovy
10 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.09%) VB
12 1 (0.55%) C++
12 1 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (38.80%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.21%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.29%) ISTQB
5 15 (8.20%) Degree
6 8 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.19%) CIPD
8 4 (2.19%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.19%) ISEB
9 3 (1.64%) Sun Certification
10 2 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (50.27%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.64%) PMO
4 1 (0.55%) IFRS
4 1 (0.55%) NCSC
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.19%) Docker
1 4 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.19%) VMware Server
2 2 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (11.48%) Grafana
2 13 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.10%) Terraform
3 10 (5.46%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 22 (12.02%) Oracle
2 21 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.84%) SAP
4 12 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.92%) Dell
6 5 (2.73%) Splunk
7 4 (2.19%) Google
7 4 (2.19%) VMware
8 3 (1.64%) Progress
9 2 (1.09%) AVEVA
9 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.09%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.55%) Ariba
10 1 (0.55%) Cisco
10 1 (0.55%) Concur
10 1 (0.55%) Databricks
10 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.55%) Juniper
10 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.55%) Sybase