Test Scripting Contracts in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 272 265
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 352 483 730
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.99% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.09% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 312 530
10th Percentile £309 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £544
90th Percentile £630 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £455 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -6.29% +7.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 12
10th Percentile - £46.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.60 £30.56
Median hourly rate £82.50 £69.75 £44.97
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% +55.12% +16.10%
75th Percentile £90.00 £88.13 £55.00
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £69.75 £46.29
% change year-on-year +18.28% +50.68% -2.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +59 162 £498 -9.55% 35
South East -4 55 £475 +9.83% 19
North of England +4 46 £450 -7.22% 15
Midlands +14 32 £448 +7.05% 20
South West +28 29 £538 +22.86% 14
North West +4 25 £450 +0.56% 8
West Midlands +11 18 £448 +5.04% 11
Yorkshire +9 18 £438 -12.50% 6
East of England +2 15 £313 -33.51% 6
East Midlands +21 13 £414 +53.24% 9
North East +15 3 £423 +9.03% 1
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (6.82%) Confluence
2 16 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.14%) IIS
4 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) LiveLink
Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.13%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (1.70%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (1.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.70%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.70%) SAP Travel Management
4 5 (1.42%) Oracle AGIS
5 4 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.14%) SAP PM
5 4 (1.14%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.85%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.85%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.85%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.08%) Azure
2 16 (4.55%) AWS
3 15 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 6 (1.70%) Serverless
5 5 (1.42%) SaaS
6 4 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.14%) BrowserStack
6 4 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.14%) GitHub
6 4 (1.14%) Miro
6 4 (1.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.85%) IaaS
7 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.85%) PaaS
8 2 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.55%) DHCP
1 16 (4.55%) DNS
2 5 (1.42%) Network Security
3 4 (1.14%) 5G
3 4 (1.14%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) 4G
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 2 (0.57%) VoIP
5 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.28%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.28%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.26%) Power BI
2 11 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.70%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.42%) MS Access
5 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.14%) Tableau
7 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.85%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.57%) Big Data
8 2 (0.57%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.57%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.57%) DataStage
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (14.20%) JIRA
2 42 (11.93%) Selenium
3 20 (5.68%) Cucumber
3 20 (5.68%) Git
3 20 (5.68%) JUnit
4 18 (5.11%) Postman
5 17 (4.83%) Appium
5 17 (4.83%) JMeter
5 17 (4.83%) REST Assured
6 15 (4.26%) TestNG
7 12 (3.41%) SoapUI
8 10 (2.84%) eggPlant
8 10 (2.84%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (2.84%) SOAtest
8 10 (2.84%) WebDriver
9 9 (2.56%) Jenkins
10 8 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.99%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.70%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 119 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.31%) Finance
3 64 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 23 (6.53%) Manufacturing
7 19 (5.40%) Military
8 18 (5.11%) Marketing
9 16 (4.55%) Electronics
10 14 (3.98%) Retail
11 12 (3.41%) Banking
12 11 (3.13%) Billing
13 9 (2.56%) Back Office
14 7 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.70%) General Ledger
15 6 (1.70%) Legal
16 5 (1.42%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (1.14%) Automotive
18 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 94 (26.70%) Analyst
2 62 (17.61%) Test Engineer
3 51 (14.49%) Test Analyst
4 38 (10.80%) Consultant
5 30 (8.52%) Tester
6 27 (7.67%) Senior
7 24 (6.82%) Business Analyst
8 21 (5.97%) Test Manager
9 19 (5.40%) Integration Engineer
10 18 (5.11%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 17 (4.83%) Developer
12 16 (4.55%) Data Analyst
13 14 (3.98%) Lead
13 14 (3.98%) QA Engineer
13 14 (3.98%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (3.41%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Project Manager
16 10 (2.84%) Microsoft Consultant
16 10 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.82%) .NET
2 14 (3.98%) REST
3 13 (3.69%) Gherkin
4 11 (3.13%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.27%) JSON
6 7 (1.99%) Node.js
7 6 (1.70%) SAP TM
7 6 (1.70%) XML
8 5 (1.42%) EDI
8 5 (1.42%) HTML
8 5 (1.42%) Jest
8 5 (1.42%) Middleware
8 5 (1.42%) React
9 4 (1.14%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.14%) CSS
9 4 (1.14%) Kafka
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.14%) Playwright
10 3 (0.85%) RESTful
10 3 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.68%) PKI
2 14 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.41%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.84%) NHS
5 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.27%) LIMS
7 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.70%) Replication
9 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.42%) Life Science
9 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.14%) e-Health
11 3 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.57%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.95%) Windows
2 19 (5.40%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (3.41%) Linux
5 8 (2.27%) Unix
6 6 (1.70%) Android
7 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.98%) Agile
1 102 (28.98%) Test Automation
2 75 (21.31%) User Acceptance Testing
3 53 (15.06%) Software Testing
4 52 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 47 (13.35%) Scenario Testing
7 43 (12.22%) Regression Testing
8 40 (11.36%) User Stories
9 36 (10.23%) Validation
10 34 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (9.66%) CI/CD
11 31 (8.81%) Acceptance Criteria
11 31 (8.81%) Migration
12 30 (8.52%) DevOps
13 26 (7.39%) Integration Testing
14 25 (7.10%) Scrum
15 23 (6.53%) Functional Testing
15 23 (6.53%) Test Planning
16 22 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (19.60%) SQL
2 46 (13.07%) Java
3 26 (7.39%) Python
4 24 (6.82%) C#
5 14 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.69%) C
6 13 (3.69%) C++
7 11 (3.13%) Embedded C
8 9 (2.56%) Embedded C++
9 8 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.85%) SOQL
10 3 (0.85%) Swift
10 3 (0.85%) VBA
11 2 (0.57%) Bash
11 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.57%) R
12 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 83 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.09%) Degree
4 28 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.68%) ISTQB
6 17 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.55%) MCSA
7 16 (4.55%) MCSE
7 16 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (1.70%) ISEB
9 5 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.42%) SAP Certification
10 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.57%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.19%) QA
2 11 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.27%) HL7
4 8 (2.27%) SLA
5 7 (1.99%) WCAG
6 5 (1.42%) GAAP
6 5 (1.42%) GAMP
6 5 (1.42%) GxP
6 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.42%) PMO
7 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.57%) Basel III
8 2 (0.57%) COREP
8 2 (0.57%) FINREP
9 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.57%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.57%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.28%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.28%) Control-M
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.28%) Kibana
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Nagios
3 1 (0.28%) SCCM
3 1 (0.28%) SCOM
3 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.63%) SAP
3 41 (11.65%) Oracle
4 19 (5.40%) VMware
5 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.42%) Adobe
8 4 (1.14%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.14%) Databricks
8 4 (1.14%) Denodo
8 4 (1.14%) HP
8 4 (1.14%) NEC
8 4 (1.14%) Splunk
9 2 (0.57%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.57%) CyberSource
9 2 (0.57%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.57%) Okta
9 2 (0.57%) OpenText
9 2 (0.57%) Qualtrics
9 2 (0.57%) Xilinx