Test Scripting Contracts in London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 287 321
Rank change year-on-year +46 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 161 209 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.79% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.87% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 140 231
10th Percentile £325 £324 £330
25th Percentile £408 £434 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £732 £775 £663
England median daily rate £454 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -9.20% +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £45.15
Median hourly rate £16.86 £62.50 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% +35.02% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £47.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 £69.75 £44.97
% change year-on-year +18.28% +55.12% -2.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,569 23,994 35,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,151 17,292 26,230
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 273 423
10th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.45 £81.80 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +66 40 £550 +7.84% 5
West London +27 9 £627 - 3
North London 0 1 £313 -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.24%) IIS
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (6.83%) Dynamics GP
2 9 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (3.73%) SAP Travel Management
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle AGIS
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.48%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.86%) NEC Housing
5 3 (1.86%) Oracle HRMS
6 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.24%) Endur
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.24%) SAP PM
6 2 (1.24%) Temenos Globus
7 1 (0.62%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.91%) Azure
2 9 (5.59%) AWS
3 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.73%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.73%) Serverless
4 4 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (2.48%) Miro
5 3 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (1.86%) BrowserStack
5 3 (1.86%) GitHub
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.24%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.24%) GCP
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.62%) SaaS
7 1 (0.62%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) 5G
1 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.73%) Power BI
3 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.24%) Big Data
5 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.24%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.24%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.24%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.62%) DataStage
6 1 (0.62%) MySQL
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.91%) Selenium
2 17 (10.56%) Git
2 17 (10.56%) JIRA
3 16 (9.94%) Cucumber
4 15 (9.32%) REST Assured
5 14 (8.70%) Appium
5 14 (8.70%) JUnit
6 13 (8.07%) TestNG
7 12 (7.45%) Postman
8 11 (6.83%) SoapUI
9 10 (6.21%) eggPlant
9 10 (6.21%) SOAtest
9 10 (6.21%) WebDriver
10 7 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (3.11%) Jenkins
12 4 (2.48%) Gatling
12 4 (2.48%) JMeter
12 4 (2.48%) LoadRunner
13 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
14 2 (1.24%) GitLab
General
1 62 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.81%) Finance
3 27 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.21%) Marketing
6 9 (5.59%) Back Office
6 9 (5.59%) Banking
6 9 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.97%) Electronics
7 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.73%) Billing
9 4 (2.48%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Retail
11 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Local Government
12 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (23.60%) Analyst
2 28 (17.39%) Consultant
3 18 (11.18%) Senior
3 18 (11.18%) Test Analyst
4 17 (10.56%) Test Engineer
5 15 (9.32%) Tester
6 13 (8.07%) Business Analyst
6 13 (8.07%) Developer
6 13 (8.07%) Test Manager
7 11 (6.83%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Great Plains Consultant
8 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Consultant
8 10 (6.21%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) SAP Consultant
10 8 (4.97%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.73%) Management Consultant
12 6 (3.73%) QA Test Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (3.11%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.80%) .NET
2 11 (6.83%) .NET Framework
2 11 (6.83%) REST
3 7 (4.35%) Gherkin
4 6 (3.73%) Node.js
4 6 (3.73%) SAP TM
5 5 (3.11%) EDI
5 5 (3.11%) Jest
5 5 (3.11%) JSON
6 4 (2.48%) Middleware
6 4 (2.48%) XML
7 3 (1.86%) CSS
7 3 (1.86%) Kafka
7 3 (1.86%) Playwright
7 3 (1.86%) React
7 3 (1.86%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.24%) HATEOAS
8 2 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.24%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.73%) Replication
4 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.86%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.24%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Blog
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) PDA
8 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.62%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.24%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.68%) Test Automation
2 47 (29.19%) Agile
3 43 (26.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 29 (18.01%) Test Strategy
5 28 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 23 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 22 (13.66%) Scenario Testing
8 20 (12.42%) End-to-End Testing
8 20 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (11.18%) User Stories
10 17 (10.56%) BDD
11 16 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (9.94%) Integration Testing
11 16 (9.94%) Project Management
12 15 (9.32%) Functional Testing
12 15 (9.32%) Migration
12 15 (9.32%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (8.70%) Use Case
14 13 (8.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.12%) SQL
2 30 (18.63%) Java
3 19 (11.80%) C#
4 17 (10.56%) Python
5 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.86%) VBA
7 2 (1.24%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.24%) C++
7 2 (1.24%) SOQL
8 1 (0.62%) Bash
8 1 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.62%) R
8 1 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.04%) Degree
4 19 (11.80%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.83%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) ISEB
6 3 (1.86%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.24%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.88%) QA
2 9 (5.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.11%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.48%) GAAP
4 4 (2.48%) SLA
5 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.86%) PMO
6 2 (1.24%) Basel III
6 2 (1.24%) COREP
6 2 (1.24%) FINREP
7 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 3 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.24%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.62%) Control-M
3 1 (0.62%) Nagios
3 1 (0.62%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.39%) SAP
3 18 (11.18%) Oracle
4 6 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.48%) Databricks
5 4 (2.48%) NEC
6 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.24%) Adobe
7 2 (1.24%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.24%) CyberSource
7 2 (1.24%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.24%) Okta
7 2 (1.24%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.24%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.24%) Splunk
7 2 (1.24%) VMware
8 1 (0.62%) HP
8 1 (0.62%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.62%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.62%) Temenos