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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 401 424
Rank change year-on-year -103 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 345 698 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 246 464 720
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,738
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £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 £65,375 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £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 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 23 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 23 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 -2 102 £37,500 -25.00% 12
London -64 88 £70,000 +23.89% 40
North of England -1 60 £45,000 - 18
Midlands -15 44 £50,000 -9.09% 14
West Midlands +4 41 £50,000 -9.09% 10
North West -21 33 £47,500 +11.76% 11
South West -47 25 £48,500 -12.22% 12
Yorkshire +59 21 £42,500 -19.05% 5
East of England -40 21 £40,000 +4.58% 8
North East -3 6 £35,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -8 3 £34,500 +38.00% 4
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.16%) TWiki
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.29%) CMS
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.58%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (3.19%) SAP HR
2 7 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.58%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.29%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.30%) Azure
2 32 (9.28%) AWS
3 20 (5.80%) SaaS
4 19 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (5.51%) Serverless
5 14 (4.06%) GitHub
6 12 (3.48%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (3.19%) Boomi
8 9 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.61%) AWS CloudTrail
8 9 (2.61%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 9 (2.61%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.32%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.74%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.67%) 5G
2 22 (6.38%) Bluetooth
2 22 (6.38%) GSM
2 22 (6.38%) ISDN
2 22 (6.38%) LTE
2 22 (6.38%) PSTN
2 22 (6.38%) UMTS
2 22 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (6.38%) Wireless
3 6 (1.74%) Internet
4 3 (0.87%) HTTP
4 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.58%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) 4G
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.61%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.16%) Power BI
6 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.29%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Redis
7 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 95 (27.54%) Selenium
2 55 (15.94%) JIRA
3 31 (8.99%) Cucumber
4 25 (7.25%) Postman
5 23 (6.67%) LabVIEW
6 22 (6.38%) JMeter
7 16 (4.64%) SpecFlow
8 15 (4.35%) Jenkins
8 15 (4.35%) LoadRunner
9 14 (4.06%) TeamCity
10 11 (3.19%) Git
11 10 (2.90%) MSTest
12 8 (2.32%) Cypress.io
12 8 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (2.03%) SoapUI
13 7 (2.03%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.74%) HP UFT
14 6 (1.74%) JBehave
14 6 (1.74%) JUnit
15 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.84%) Finance
3 49 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.70%) Aerospace
6 24 (6.96%) Law
7 23 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 17 (4.93%) Banking
8 17 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (4.93%) Retail
9 16 (4.64%) Marketing
10 13 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.77%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.74%) Automotive
12 6 (1.74%) Games
12 6 (1.74%) Police
13 5 (1.45%) Electronics
13 5 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (22.32%) Analyst
2 58 (16.81%) Tester
3 53 (15.36%) Test Engineer
4 51 (14.78%) Senior
5 49 (14.20%) Test Analyst
6 29 (8.41%) Automation Tester
7 24 (6.96%) QA Engineer
8 21 (6.09%) QA Analyst
9 17 (4.93%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.35%) Consultant
10 15 (4.35%) Hardware Engineer
10 15 (4.35%) Software Tester
11 14 (4.06%) SAP Consultant
12 13 (3.77%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.77%) Developer
12 13 (3.77%) Lead
13 12 (3.48%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.19%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (3.19%) Senior SAP Consultant
15 10 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.96%) Gherkin
2 15 (4.35%) Middleware
2 15 (4.35%) XML
3 14 (4.06%) .NET
3 14 (4.06%) Node.js
4 13 (3.77%) REST
5 12 (3.48%) Spring
6 10 (2.90%) HTML
6 10 (2.90%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.32%) Web Services
8 6 (1.74%) JSON
8 6 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.74%) RESTful
8 6 (1.74%) SOAP
9 5 (1.45%) Playwright
10 4 (1.16%) Svelte
10 4 (1.16%) XSLT
11 3 (0.87%) POSIX
11 3 (0.87%) Swagger
12 2 (0.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.12%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.38%) Acoustics
3 22 (6.38%) Satnav
4 17 (4.93%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.45%) SCADA
10 4 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.16%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.16%) NHS
10 4 (1.16%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.58%) Bitcoin
11 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.58%) FMCG
11 2 (0.58%) IoT
11 2 (0.58%) PKI
11 2 (0.58%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.41%) Windows
2 19 (5.51%) Linux
3 6 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.87%) Android
5 3 (0.87%) FreeBSD
5 3 (0.87%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (63.48%) Test Automation
2 177 (51.30%) Agile
3 103 (29.86%) Software Testing
4 70 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (18.84%) Coaching
6 62 (17.97%) DevOps
6 62 (17.97%) Mentoring
6 62 (17.97%) Test Strategy
7 61 (17.68%) Collaborative Working
7 61 (17.68%) Regression Testing
8 58 (16.81%) CI/CD
9 54 (15.65%) Performance Testing
10 51 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 46 (13.33%) Test Management
12 43 (12.46%) Scrum
13 42 (12.17%) Manual Testing
14 37 (10.72%) Data Management
14 37 (10.72%) Defect Management
14 37 (10.72%) SDLC
15 36 (10.43%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.42%) Python
2 42 (12.17%) SQL
3 38 (11.01%) Java
4 34 (9.86%) C#
5 24 (6.96%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.48%) Bash
6 12 (3.48%) C
7 8 (2.32%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.74%) C++
8 6 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.16%) Groovy
9 4 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.87%) Perl
10 3 (0.87%) VB
11 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.29%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.48%) Degree
3 47 (13.62%) ISTQB
4 42 (12.17%) SC Cleared
5 30 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.93%) ISEB
8 5 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.16%) CIPD
9 4 (1.16%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.87%) HND
10 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.87%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) CBAP
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (40.00%) QA
2 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.87%) PMO
3 3 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
4 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.74%) Firmware
2 5 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.35%) Grafana
2 11 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.90%) Terraform
4 7 (2.03%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.29%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.29%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 49 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.38%) Oracle
3 21 (6.09%) SAP
4 13 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.61%) Dell
6 5 (1.45%) Google
6 5 (1.45%) VMware
7 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.87%) Progress
8 3 (0.87%) Splunk
9 2 (0.58%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.58%) Intapp
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.58%) Workday
9 2 (0.58%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco
10 1 (0.29%) Denodo
10 1 (0.29%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.29%) Talend