Test Scripting Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 410 396
Rank change year-on-year +98 -14 -26
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 85 187 301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.55% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.60% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60 130 263
10th Percentile £32,425 £33,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,510 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +11.36%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £78,248
UK median annual salary £52,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Test Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Scripting trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Scripting
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) SAP HR
2 3 (3.53%) SAP IBP
3 2 (2.35%) SAP PP
3 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.18%) Magento
4 1 (1.18%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.24%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) AWS
3 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.88%) Boomi
5 5 (5.88%) GCP
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub
5 5 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.35%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.35%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.18%) SaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DHCP
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.18%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.71%) Biml
2 4 (4.71%) Power BI
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.53%) Airbyte
3 3 (3.53%) Metadata
3 3 (3.53%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) Selenium
2 15 (17.65%) JIRA
3 14 (16.47%) Appium
4 10 (11.76%) Git
5 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
6 6 (7.06%) WebDriver
7 5 (5.88%) Postman
8 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
8 4 (4.71%) JMeter
8 4 (4.71%) JUnit
8 4 (4.71%) Mocha
8 4 (4.71%) SoapUI
8 4 (4.71%) TestNG
8 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.53%) Protractor
9 3 (3.53%) SpecFlow
9 3 (3.53%) TestComplete
10 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.18%) Gradle
11 1 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Finance
3 12 (14.12%) Law
4 10 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (7.06%) Banking
8 4 (4.71%) Cantonese Language
8 4 (4.71%) Legal
8 4 (4.71%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.53%) Environmental Health
9 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Electronics
10 2 (2.35%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.35%) Marketing
10 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Retail
10 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Test Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) Tester
3 16 (18.82%) QA Engineer
4 15 (17.65%) Analyst
5 14 (16.47%) Senior
6 10 (11.76%) Automation Tester
7 9 (10.59%) Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Software Tester
8 8 (9.41%) QA Test Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Lead
9 7 (8.24%) Test Analyst
10 6 (7.06%) Quality Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
11 5 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Managed Services Consultant
12 4 (4.71%) Performance Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Performance Test Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) Playwright
2 8 (9.41%) .NET
3 6 (7.06%) pytest
4 4 (4.71%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.53%) NumPy
5 3 (3.53%) Pandas
5 3 (3.53%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (2.35%) ADO
6 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.35%) LDAP
6 2 (2.35%) RESTful
6 2 (2.35%) SOAP
7 1 (1.18%) CSS
7 1 (1.18%) HTML
7 1 (1.18%) Jest
7 1 (1.18%) REST
7 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.06%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.06%) NHS
3 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Blog
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) PKI
6 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) Windows
3 4 (4.71%) Unix
4 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.35%) Android
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 37 (43.53%) Agile
3 29 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (30.59%) Software Testing
5 20 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 17 (20.00%) DevOps
7 15 (17.65%) Manual Testing
7 15 (17.65%) Regression Testing
7 15 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.12%) Project Management
9 12 (14.12%) Security Testing
10 11 (12.94%) Performance Testing
10 11 (12.94%) Test Management
10 11 (12.94%) Test Strategy
11 10 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (11.76%) ETL
11 10 (11.76%) SDLC
12 9 (10.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.24%) Python
2 16 (18.82%) JavaScript
2 16 (18.82%) SQL
3 11 (12.94%) C#
3 11 (12.94%) Java
4 7 (8.24%) T-SQL
5 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.71%) Groovy
7 3 (3.53%) Bash
7 3 (3.53%) C++
7 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) ISTQB
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.59%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) CSQA
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (58.82%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.18%) Basel III
5 1 (1.18%) GMP
5 1 (1.18%) IFRS
5 1 (1.18%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Grafana
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.35%) Puppet
2 2 (2.35%) SCOM
3 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) SAP
2 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) Dell
3 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.53%) BT
4 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) ArcSight
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) UiPath