Test Scripting Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 208 204 195
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -23
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 201 279 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.19% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.33% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 178 285
10th Percentile £306 £309 £275
25th Percentile £363 £394 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +5.88% +11.84%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £495
90th Percentile £575 £641 £562
UK median daily rate £455 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -6.29% +7.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 10
10th Percentile - £46.25 £17.15
25th Percentile £41.25 £50.53 £21.69
Median hourly rate £90.00 £77.00 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +85.12% +66.38%
75th Percentile - £89.38 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Test Scripting in the UK excluding London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East -4 55 £475 +9.83% 17
North of England +4 46 £450 -7.22% 16
Midlands +14 32 £448 +7.05% 20
South West +28 29 £538 +22.86% 13
North West +4 25 £450 +0.56% 9
Scotland +39 23 £400 -5.88% 3
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
Wales +14 1 £210 -66.40% 2
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 19 (9.45%) Confluence
2 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.00%) CMS
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) LiveLink
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.00%) SAP Retail
2 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.94%) Azure
2 21 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.98%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.99%) AWS
5 4 (1.99%) SaaS
6 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.49%) IaaS
6 3 (1.49%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.49%) PaaS
6 3 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.00%) OCI
7 2 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.50%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.96%) DHCP
1 16 (7.96%) DNS
2 5 (2.49%) Network Security
3 4 (1.99%) Firewall
4 3 (1.49%) 4G
4 3 (1.49%) 5G
4 3 (1.49%) LAN
4 3 (1.49%) VPN
4 3 (1.49%) WAN
5 2 (1.00%) VoIP
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.50%) WAAS
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.48%) Power BI
2 8 (3.98%) Electronic Patient Records
3 6 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.49%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.99%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.99%) MS Access
5 4 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.99%) Tableau
6 3 (1.49%) Big Data
7 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) DataStage
7 1 (0.50%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.50%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (16.92%) JIRA
2 25 (12.44%) Selenium
3 14 (6.97%) JMeter
4 10 (4.98%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (3.48%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.99%) Git
6 6 (2.99%) JUnit
6 6 (2.99%) LoadRunner
7 5 (2.49%) Postman
7 5 (2.49%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.99%) Appium
9 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.00%) ClearCase
10 2 (1.00%) ClearQuest
10 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.00%) GitLab
10 2 (1.00%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.00%) TestNG
10 2 (1.00%) UI Automator
General
1 59 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Finance
4 23 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.45%) Military
6 14 (6.97%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.97%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.47%) Retail
8 8 (3.98%) Banking
8 8 (3.98%) Electronics
8 8 (3.98%) Marketing
9 6 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.49%) Legal
11 4 (1.99%) Automotive
11 4 (1.99%) Billing
12 2 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (28.36%) Analyst
2 47 (23.38%) Test Engineer
3 33 (16.42%) Test Analyst
4 19 (9.45%) Integration Engineer
4 19 (9.45%) Tester
5 18 (8.96%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 14 (6.97%) Data Analyst
7 12 (5.97%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Consultant
9 10 (4.98%) Senior
9 10 (4.98%) Test Manager
10 9 (4.48%) C Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Embedded C Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Embedded Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Automation Tester
11 8 (3.98%) LIMS Manager
11 8 (3.98%) LIMS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.48%) .NET
2 6 (2.99%) REST
3 5 (2.49%) Gherkin
3 5 (2.49%) Playwright
3 5 (2.49%) SOAP
4 4 (1.99%) WinForms
4 4 (1.99%) WPF
5 2 (1.00%) HTML
5 2 (1.00%) JSON
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.00%) XML
6 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.50%) HTML5
6 1 (0.50%) Java Concurrency
6 1 (0.50%) JPA
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.50%) RESTful
6 1 (0.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.95%) PKI
2 11 (5.47%) NHS
3 8 (3.98%) LIMS
4 7 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.49%) Life Science
7 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.99%) e-Health
7 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) Equities
9 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Windows
2 19 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.96%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (2.49%) Linux
5 4 (1.99%) Android
5 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.99%) Unix
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.50%) AIX
7 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.35%) Agile
1 59 (29.35%) Test Automation
2 35 (17.41%) User Acceptance Testing
3 33 (16.42%) Regression Testing
4 32 (15.92%) DevOps
4 32 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (15.92%) Software Testing
5 30 (14.93%) Validation
6 26 (12.94%) Scenario Testing
6 26 (12.94%) Test Strategy
7 23 (11.44%) Acceptance Criteria
8 21 (10.45%) User Stories
9 19 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (8.46%) Test Planning
11 16 (7.96%) API Testing
11 16 (7.96%) Critical Thinking
11 16 (7.96%) Scrum
11 16 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (7.96%) Test Management
12 15 (7.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.39%) SQL
2 15 (7.46%) Java
3 13 (6.47%) C#
4 12 (5.97%) C
5 11 (5.47%) C++
5 11 (5.47%) Embedded C
6 9 (4.48%) Embedded C++
7 8 (3.98%) Python
8 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.99%) VB
9 4 (1.99%) VB6
10 3 (1.49%) Swift
11 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
12 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (7.96%) MCSA
4 16 (7.96%) MCSE
4 16 (7.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (7.46%) Degree
6 9 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.48%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.49%) ISEB
8 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.00%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.43%) QA
2 10 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.98%) HL7
4 7 (3.48%) WCAG
5 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.49%) GAMP
5 5 (2.49%) GxP
6 4 (1.99%) SLA
7 3 (1.49%) PMO
8 2 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.50%) EMIR
9 1 (0.50%) NCSC
9 1 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.00%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.50%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Kibana
3 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.94%) Oracle
3 25 (12.44%) SAP
4 17 (8.46%) VMware
5 5 (2.49%) HP
6 4 (1.99%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.99%) Denodo
6 4 (1.99%) Infragistics
6 4 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.00%) Adobe
7 2 (1.00%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.00%) OpenText
7 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.00%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.50%) Brio
8 1 (0.50%) Cadence
8 1 (0.50%) Embarcadero
8 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.50%) Google