Test Scripting Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 425 391 371
Rank change year-on-year -34 -20 -4
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 173 275 658
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.69% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.71% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 118 241 441
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,899 £49,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £49,391
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +11.36% -1.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £70,000
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Scripting trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Test Scripting salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.36%) SAP HR
2 6 (3.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 2 (1.16%) SAP MII
3 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.87%) Azure
2 21 (12.14%) AWS
3 16 (9.25%) GitHub
4 14 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (8.09%) SaaS
5 12 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.94%) Serverless
6 11 (6.36%) Boomi
6 11 (6.36%) SuccessFactors
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.20%) AWS CloudTrail
7 9 (5.20%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 9 (5.20%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.47%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.31%) PaaS
12 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) 4G
3 1 (0.58%) 5G
3 1 (0.58%) Multicast
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.31%) Redis
4 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.73%) Power BI
4 3 (1.73%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.58%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (34.68%) Selenium
2 37 (21.39%) JIRA
3 21 (12.14%) Postman
4 15 (8.67%) Cucumber
5 13 (7.51%) Jenkins
6 12 (6.94%) SpecFlow
7 9 (5.20%) Cypress.io
7 9 (5.20%) JMeter
8 7 (4.05%) Git
9 6 (3.47%) JBehave
9 6 (3.47%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.89%) GitLab
10 5 (2.89%) JUnit
10 5 (2.89%) LoadRunner
10 5 (2.89%) TestRail
11 4 (2.31%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (2.31%) TestNG
12 3 (1.73%) Appium
12 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.73%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.34%) Finance
3 25 (14.45%) Aerospace
4 19 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.67%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.51%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.94%) Retail
8 9 (5.20%) Law
9 8 (4.62%) Police
10 4 (2.31%) Marketing
10 4 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.73%) Legal
11 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Automotive
12 2 (1.16%) Back Office
12 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.16%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (24.28%) Tester
2 36 (20.81%) Analyst
3 35 (20.23%) Senior
4 26 (15.03%) Automation Tester
5 22 (12.72%) Test Engineer
6 20 (11.56%) QA Engineer
6 20 (11.56%) Test Analyst
7 15 (8.67%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (8.09%) Consultant
9 13 (7.51%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (5.78%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (5.78%) Senior SAP Consultant
11 9 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (5.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.20%) Software Tester
12 8 (4.62%) Senior Test Analyst
13 7 (4.05%) Administrator
13 7 (4.05%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.94%) Gherkin
2 9 (5.20%) .NET
2 9 (5.20%) Middleware
3 8 (4.62%) Node.js
4 7 (4.05%) HTML
4 7 (4.05%) XML
5 6 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.47%) Web Services
6 5 (2.89%) Nightwatchjs
6 5 (2.89%) Spring
6 5 (2.89%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (2.31%) RESTful
7 4 (2.31%) XSLT
8 3 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.73%) Swagger
9 2 (1.16%) REST
10 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.58%) Behat
10 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.58%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.51%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.47%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.47%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.89%) Replication
5 4 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.31%) NHS
6 3 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) FMCG
8 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.58%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.98%) Windows
2 13 (7.51%) Linux
3 7 (4.05%) Android
4 6 (3.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (61.27%) Test Automation
2 79 (45.66%) Agile
3 48 (27.75%) Software Testing
4 43 (24.86%) Collaborative Working
5 42 (24.28%) DevOps
6 36 (20.81%) Regression Testing
7 34 (19.65%) CI/CD
8 33 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.92%) Coaching
10 30 (17.34%) Mentoring
10 30 (17.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (15.03%) BDD
12 25 (14.45%) Performance Testing
12 25 (14.45%) Requirements Analysis
12 25 (14.45%) Technical Analysis
12 25 (14.45%) Test Assurance
13 24 (13.87%) Manual Testing
14 21 (12.14%) Actionable Insight
14 21 (12.14%) API Testing
15 19 (10.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.45%) SQL
2 23 (13.29%) JavaScript
3 21 (12.14%) C#
4 20 (11.56%) Python
5 16 (9.25%) Java
6 10 (5.78%) Bash
7 7 (4.05%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.31%) C
8 4 (2.31%) Groovy
9 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.16%) VB
10 1 (0.58%) Perl
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (40.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.18%) DV Cleared
3 25 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.83%) ISTQB
5 16 (9.25%) Degree
6 8 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.31%) CIPD
7 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.31%) ISEB
8 3 (1.73%) Sun Certification
9 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (51.45%) QA
2 3 (1.73%) PMO
3 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) SLA
3 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.31%) Docker
1 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.31%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Grafana
2 10 (5.78%) Kibana
2 10 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.78%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 23 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.98%) Oracle
3 17 (9.83%) SAP
4 12 (6.94%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.20%) Dell
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) Google
7 4 (2.31%) VMware
8 3 (1.73%) Progress
9 2 (1.16%) AVEVA
9 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.58%) Ariba
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco
10 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.58%) Juniper
10 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.58%) Sybase