Test Scripting Jobs in England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 397 414
Rank change year-on-year -107 +17 +14
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 352 711 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.84% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 253 468 726
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,688
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,583 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,400 £80,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in England

Test Scripting
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -4 103 £38,750 -22.50% 21
London -65 90 £70,000 +21.74% 44
North of England -7 59 £45,000 -4.26% 16
Midlands -13 45 £50,000 -9.09% 21
West Midlands +10 42 £50,000 -9.09% 13
North West -25 32 £47,500 +8.57% 10
South West -50 29 £55,000 -0.45% 12
Yorkshire +58 21 £42,500 -19.05% 5
East of England -45 21 £40,000 +2.56% 14
North East +3 6 £35,000 -39.66% 1
East Midlands -21 3 £34,500 +38.00% 8
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 15 (4.26%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) TWiki
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.28%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.57%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.57%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.28%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.08%) Azure
2 34 (9.66%) AWS
3 20 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (5.68%) SaaS
3 20 (5.68%) Serverless
4 19 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (4.26%) GitHub
6 12 (3.41%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (3.13%) Boomi
8 10 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.84%) AWS CloudTrail
8 10 (2.84%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 10 (2.84%) Azure AKS
9 9 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.70%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.53%) 5G
1 23 (6.53%) LTE
2 22 (6.25%) Bluetooth
2 22 (6.25%) GSM
2 22 (6.25%) ISDN
2 22 (6.25%) PSTN
2 22 (6.25%) UMTS
2 22 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (6.25%) Wireless
3 6 (1.70%) Internet
4 3 (0.85%) HTTP
4 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.28%) MQTT
6 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.42%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.14%) Power BI
7 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata
8 1 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Redis
8 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (26.70%) Selenium
2 54 (15.34%) JIRA
3 31 (8.81%) Cucumber
4 25 (7.10%) Postman
5 23 (6.53%) LabVIEW
6 22 (6.25%) JMeter
7 15 (4.26%) Jenkins
7 15 (4.26%) LoadRunner
7 15 (4.26%) SpecFlow
8 14 (3.98%) TeamCity
9 12 (3.41%) Git
10 10 (2.84%) MSTest
11 9 (2.56%) Cypress.io
12 8 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (1.99%) SoapUI
13 7 (1.99%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.70%) HP UFT
14 6 (1.70%) JBehave
14 6 (1.70%) JUnit
15 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.03%) Finance
3 49 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.52%) Aerospace
6 24 (6.82%) Law
6 24 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (5.11%) Retail
8 17 (4.83%) Banking
8 17 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (4.83%) Marketing
9 14 (3.98%) Public Sector
10 13 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.70%) Automotive
12 6 (1.70%) Electronics
12 6 (1.70%) Games
12 6 (1.70%) Police
13 5 (1.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (22.44%) Analyst
2 59 (16.76%) Tester
3 54 (15.34%) Test Engineer
4 51 (14.49%) Senior
5 49 (13.92%) Test Analyst
6 29 (8.24%) Automation Tester
7 24 (6.82%) QA Engineer
8 21 (5.97%) QA Analyst
9 17 (4.83%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.26%) Consultant
10 15 (4.26%) Hardware Engineer
10 15 (4.26%) Software Tester
11 14 (3.98%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.98%) SAP Consultant
12 13 (3.69%) Developer
12 13 (3.69%) Lead
13 12 (3.41%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (3.13%) Senior SAP Consultant
14 11 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.82%) Gherkin
2 16 (4.55%) Middleware
3 14 (3.98%) .NET
3 14 (3.98%) Node.js
3 14 (3.98%) XML
4 13 (3.69%) REST
5 12 (3.41%) Spring
6 10 (2.84%) HTML
6 10 (2.84%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.27%) Web Services
8 7 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.70%) JSON
9 6 (1.70%) RESTful
9 6 (1.70%) SOAP
10 5 (1.42%) Playwright
11 4 (1.14%) Svelte
11 4 (1.14%) XSLT
12 3 (0.85%) POSIX
12 3 (0.85%) Swagger
13 2 (0.57%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.25%) Acoustics
3 22 (6.25%) Satnav
4 17 (4.83%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.42%) SCADA
10 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.14%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.14%) NHS
10 4 (1.14%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.85%) IoT
12 2 (0.57%) Bitcoin
12 2 (0.57%) FMCG
12 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.57%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.52%) Windows
2 21 (5.97%) Linux
3 6 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.85%) Android
5 3 (0.85%) FreeBSD
5 3 (0.85%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 178 (50.57%) Agile
3 102 (28.98%) Software Testing
4 73 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (19.03%) Coaching
6 63 (17.90%) DevOps
6 63 (17.90%) Mentoring
7 62 (17.61%) Test Strategy
8 61 (17.33%) Collaborative Working
9 60 (17.05%) Regression Testing
10 59 (16.76%) CI/CD
11 55 (15.63%) Performance Testing
12 50 (14.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 45 (12.78%) Scrum
13 45 (12.78%) Test Management
14 42 (11.93%) Manual Testing
15 37 (10.51%) Data Management
15 37 (10.51%) Functional Testing
16 36 (10.23%) Defect Management
16 36 (10.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 70 (19.89%) Python
2 43 (12.22%) SQL
3 38 (10.80%) Java
4 33 (9.38%) C#
5 24 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.69%) Bash
6 13 (3.69%) C
7 8 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.99%) C++
9 6 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.14%) Groovy
10 4 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.85%) Perl
11 3 (0.85%) VB
12 2 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.28%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.01%) Degree
3 45 (12.78%) ISTQB
4 43 (12.22%) SC Cleared
5 31 (8.81%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.55%) ISEB
8 5 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.14%) CIPD
9 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.85%) HND
10 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.85%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) CBAP
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (39.49%) QA
2 7 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.85%) PMO
3 3 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.85%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) NCSC
4 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.99%) Firmware
2 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.57%) Docker
5 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.55%) Grafana
2 12 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.13%) Terraform
4 7 (1.99%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.28%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.28%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 49 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.82%) Oracle
3 22 (6.25%) SAP
4 14 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.56%) Dell
6 5 (1.42%) Google
6 5 (1.42%) VMware
7 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.85%) Progress
8 3 (0.85%) Splunk
9 2 (0.57%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.57%) Intapp
9 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.57%) Workday
9 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco
10 1 (0.28%) Denodo
10 1 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.28%) Talend