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 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 539 413 431
Rank change year-on-year -126 +18 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 386 763 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.77% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.81% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 271 486 812
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,513
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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% +10.53%

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 23 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 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
England -103 345 £50,000 -9.09% 108
UK excluding London -94 276 £42,500 -15.00% 72
Work from Home -34 173 £48,750 -11.36% 53
South East -2 102 £37,500 -25.00% 13
London -64 88 £70,000 +23.89% 41
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% 9
Scotland -61 16 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Wales +15 8 £43,250 +44.17% 3
North East -3 6 £35,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -8 3 £34,500 +38.00% 4

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 15 (3.89%) Confluence
2 4 (1.04%) TWiki
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.26%) CMS
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (2.85%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.52%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.26%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.40%) Azure
2 33 (8.55%) AWS
3 27 (6.99%) SaaS
4 19 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (4.92%) Serverless
5 18 (4.66%) GitHub
6 12 (3.11%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (2.85%) Boomi
8 9 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
8 9 (2.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 9 (2.33%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.07%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.55%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.96%) 5G
2 22 (5.70%) Bluetooth
2 22 (5.70%) GSM
2 22 (5.70%) ISDN
2 22 (5.70%) LTE
2 22 (5.70%) PSTN
2 22 (5.70%) UMTS
2 22 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (5.70%) Wireless
3 6 (1.55%) Internet
4 3 (0.78%) HTTP
4 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.52%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) 4G
6 1 (0.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.26%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.30%) Redis
5 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.04%) Power BI
6 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.26%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 100 (25.91%) Selenium
2 72 (18.65%) JIRA
3 40 (10.36%) Cucumber
4 35 (9.07%) Postman
5 31 (8.03%) JMeter
6 26 (6.74%) Cypress.io
7 24 (6.22%) Jenkins
8 23 (5.96%) LabVIEW
9 17 (4.40%) SpecFlow
10 15 (3.89%) Git
10 15 (3.89%) LoadRunner
11 14 (3.63%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.59%) GitLab
12 10 (2.59%) MSTest
13 9 (2.33%) Gradle
13 9 (2.33%) Maven
14 8 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (1.81%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.81%) Zephyr
16 6 (1.55%) JBehave
General
1 104 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.73%) Finance
3 64 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (15.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (9.07%) Law
6 30 (7.77%) Aerospace
7 25 (6.48%) Marketing
8 23 (5.96%) Telecoms
9 19 (4.92%) Public Sector
10 17 (4.40%) Banking
10 17 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.40%) Retail
11 13 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.07%) Police
14 7 (1.81%) Legal
15 6 (1.55%) Automotive
15 6 (1.55%) Games
16 5 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 83 (21.50%) Analyst
2 64 (16.58%) Test Engineer
3 62 (16.06%) Senior
4 61 (15.80%) Tester
5 53 (13.73%) Test Analyst
6 39 (10.10%) QA Engineer
7 29 (7.51%) Automation Tester
8 21 (5.44%) QA Analyst
8 21 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 19 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (4.66%) Software Tester
11 15 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.89%) Consultant
11 15 (3.89%) Hardware Engineer
12 14 (3.63%) SAP Consultant
13 13 (3.37%) Developer
13 13 (3.37%) Lead
13 13 (3.37%) Test Automation Engineer
14 11 (2.85%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.85%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.22%) Gherkin
2 21 (5.44%) Spring
3 19 (4.92%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.66%) Node.js
5 15 (3.89%) Middleware
5 15 (3.89%) XML
6 14 (3.63%) .NET
7 13 (3.37%) REST
8 11 (2.85%) React
9 10 (2.59%) HTML
10 9 (2.33%) Ext JS
11 8 (2.07%) Web Services
12 6 (1.55%) JSON
12 6 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (1.55%) RESTful
12 6 (1.55%) SOAP
12 6 (1.55%) WebdriverIO
13 5 (1.30%) Nightwatchjs
13 5 (1.30%) Playwright
14 4 (1.04%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.70%) Acoustics
3 22 (5.70%) Satnav
4 21 (5.44%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.37%) Market Risk
7 9 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.30%) Replication
10 5 (1.30%) SCADA
11 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.04%) NHS
11 4 (1.04%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.52%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.52%) IoT
12 2 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.55%) Windows
2 19 (4.92%) Linux
3 7 (1.81%) Android
4 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.78%) FreeBSD
6 3 (0.78%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (66.32%) Test Automation
2 194 (50.26%) Agile
3 132 (34.20%) Software Testing
4 90 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (20.21%) Regression Testing
6 77 (19.95%) CI/CD
7 72 (18.65%) Test Strategy
8 67 (17.36%) Coaching
8 67 (17.36%) DevOps
9 63 (16.32%) Collaborative Working
9 63 (16.32%) Mentoring
10 60 (15.54%) User Acceptance Testing
11 59 (15.28%) Manual Testing
12 58 (15.03%) Performance Testing
13 56 (14.51%) SDLC
14 52 (13.47%) Test Management
15 47 (12.18%) API Testing
15 47 (12.18%) BDD
16 44 (11.40%) Scrum
17 42 (10.88%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.13%) Python
2 52 (13.47%) SQL
3 47 (12.18%) Java
4 44 (11.40%) JavaScript
5 35 (9.07%) C#
6 12 (3.11%) Bash
6 12 (3.11%) C
7 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.55%) C++
9 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.04%) Groovy
11 3 (0.78%) Perl
11 3 (0.78%) VB
12 2 (0.52%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.26%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 86 (22.28%) Degree
3 51 (13.21%) ISTQB
4 48 (12.44%) SC Cleared
5 30 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (7.77%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.40%) ISEB
7 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.30%) HND
7 5 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.04%) CIPD
8 4 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.78%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (42.49%) QA
2 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.78%) PMO
3 3 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.78%) WCAG
4 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) NCSC
4 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.55%) Docker
1 6 (1.55%) Firmware
2 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (4.92%) Grafana
2 11 (2.85%) Kibana
2 11 (2.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.59%) Terraform
4 1 (0.26%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.26%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (0.26%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 53 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.22%) Oracle
3 21 (5.44%) SAP
4 17 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.33%) Dell
5 9 (2.33%) TOWER Software
6 7 (1.81%) Splunk
7 5 (1.30%) Google
7 5 (1.30%) VMware
8 4 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.78%) Progress
10 2 (0.52%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.52%) Intapp
10 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.52%) Workday
10 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.26%) Denodo
11 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.26%) Talend