Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 395 429
Rank change year-on-year -146 +34 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 400 795 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.78% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.82% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 287 494 793
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,200 £80,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -107 358 £50,000 -9.09% 112
UK excluding London -110 285 £42,500 -15.00% 83
Work from Home +2 179 £52,500 -4.55% 47
South East -4 104 £40,000 -20.00% 18
London -54 93 £70,000 +21.74% 34
North of England +2 58 £45,000 -4.26% 17
Midlands -10 47 £47,500 -13.64% 20
West Midlands +22 44 £48,750 -11.36% 10
North West -23 32 £47,500 +5.56% 11
South West -49 30 £51,750 -6.33% 14
East of England -38 21 £40,000 -23.81% 7
Yorkshire +55 20 £42,500 -9.57% 5
Scotland -60 17 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Wales +21 8 £43,250 +44.17% 1
North East -2 6 £35,000 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -14 3 £34,500 +15.00% 10

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (3.50%) Confluence
2 4 (1.00%) TWiki
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.25%) CMS
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (2.75%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.50%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.25%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 47 (11.75%) Azure
2 35 (8.75%) AWS
3 26 (6.50%) SaaS
4 22 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (5.25%) Serverless
6 20 (5.00%) GitHub
7 12 (3.00%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (2.75%) AWS CloudTrail
8 11 (2.75%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 11 (2.75%) Azure AKS
8 11 (2.75%) Boomi
9 9 (2.25%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.50%) BrowserStack
11 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.75%) 5G
1 23 (5.75%) LTE
2 22 (5.50%) Bluetooth
2 22 (5.50%) GSM
2 22 (5.50%) ISDN
2 22 (5.50%) PSTN
2 22 (5.50%) UMTS
2 22 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (5.50%) Wireless
3 6 (1.50%) Internet
4 3 (0.75%) HTTP
4 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.50%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) 4G
6 1 (0.25%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.25%) Redis
6 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.00%) Power BI
7 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.25%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (24.25%) Selenium
2 71 (17.75%) JIRA
3 39 (9.75%) Cucumber
4 35 (8.75%) Postman
5 31 (7.75%) JMeter
6 28 (7.00%) Cypress.io
7 23 (5.75%) LabVIEW
8 22 (5.50%) Jenkins
9 16 (4.00%) Git
10 15 (3.75%) LoadRunner
10 15 (3.75%) SpecFlow
11 14 (3.50%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.50%) MSTest
13 9 (2.25%) GitLab
13 9 (2.25%) Gradle
13 9 (2.25%) Maven
14 8 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (1.75%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.75%) Zephyr
16 6 (1.50%) JBehave
General
1 104 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.00%) Finance
3 61 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (8.75%) Law
5 28 (7.00%) Aerospace
6 25 (6.25%) Marketing
7 24 (6.00%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.00%) Banking
8 20 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 18 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.50%) Retail
10 17 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.00%) Police
14 7 (1.75%) Legal
15 6 (1.50%) Automotive
15 6 (1.50%) Electronics
15 6 (1.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (22.25%) Analyst
2 64 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 61 (15.25%) Senior
3 61 (15.25%) Tester
4 57 (14.25%) Test Analyst
5 39 (9.75%) QA Engineer
6 26 (6.50%) Automation Tester
7 22 (5.50%) QA Analyst
8 21 (5.25%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (4.75%) Software Tester
10 16 (4.00%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.75%) Consultant
11 15 (3.75%) Hardware Engineer
12 14 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
12 14 (3.50%) Test Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.25%) Developer
14 12 (3.00%) Lead
15 11 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.00%) Gherkin
2 21 (5.25%) Spring
3 19 (4.75%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.50%) Node.js
5 17 (4.25%) Middleware
6 15 (3.75%) XML
7 14 (3.50%) .NET
8 13 (3.25%) REST
9 11 (2.75%) React
10 10 (2.50%) HTML
11 9 (2.25%) Ext JS
12 8 (2.00%) Web Services
13 7 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (1.50%) JSON
14 6 (1.50%) SOAP
14 6 (1.50%) WebdriverIO
15 5 (1.25%) Nightwatchjs
15 5 (1.25%) Playwright
15 5 (1.25%) RESTful
16 4 (1.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.25%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.50%) Acoustics
3 22 (5.50%) Satnav
4 21 (5.25%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.25%) Market Risk
7 9 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.25%) Replication
10 5 (1.25%) SCADA
11 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.00%) NHS
11 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.75%) IoT
13 2 (0.50%) Bitcoin
13 2 (0.50%) FMCG
13 2 (0.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.25%) Windows
2 23 (5.75%) Linux
3 7 (1.75%) Android
4 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.75%) FreeBSD
7 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (64.75%) Test Automation
2 197 (49.25%) Agile
3 133 (33.25%) Software Testing
4 93 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 77 (19.25%) Regression Testing
7 73 (18.25%) DevOps
7 73 (18.25%) Test Strategy
8 68 (17.00%) Coaching
9 64 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 61 (15.25%) Collaborative Working
11 60 (15.00%) Manual Testing
11 60 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 59 (14.75%) Performance Testing
13 54 (13.50%) Test Management
14 53 (13.25%) SDLC
15 48 (12.00%) API Testing
16 47 (11.75%) Scrum
17 45 (11.25%) Functional Testing
18 44 (11.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 71 (17.75%) Python
2 53 (13.25%) SQL
3 46 (11.50%) Java
4 44 (11.00%) JavaScript
5 34 (8.50%) C#
6 14 (3.50%) Bash
7 13 (3.25%) C
8 9 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.75%) C++
11 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.00%) Groovy
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) VB
14 2 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.25%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.50%) Degree
3 53 (13.25%) ISTQB
4 50 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 31 (7.75%) DV Cleared
6 29 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.50%) ISEB
8 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.25%) HND
8 5 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.00%) CIPD
9 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.75%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.25%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (42.00%) QA
2 8 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.75%) PMO
3 3 (0.75%) WCAG
4 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.75%) Firmware
2 6 (1.50%) Docker
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (5.25%) Grafana
2 13 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.00%) Terraform
4 11 (2.75%) Kibana
5 1 (0.25%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.25%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.25%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 53 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.50%) Oracle
3 22 (5.50%) SAP
4 20 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.25%) Dell
5 9 (2.25%) TOWER Software
6 7 (1.75%) Splunk
7 5 (1.25%) Google
8 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.00%) VMware
9 3 (0.75%) Progress
10 2 (0.50%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.50%) Intapp
10 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.50%) Workday
10 2 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.25%) Denodo
11 1 (0.25%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.25%) Talend