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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 393 351
Rank change year-on-year -132 -42 +83
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 351 656 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.79% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.83% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 239 448 753
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,525
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £49,391
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.36% +3.98%

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 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -15 102 £37,500 -25.00% 22
London -95 93 £70,000 +27.27% 36
North of England -9 61 £45,000 -4.76% 13
Midlands -34 43 £50,000 -18.37% 9
West Midlands -11 40 £50,000 -28.57% 5
North West -27 34 £47,500 +8.57% 7
East of England -53 23 £40,000 +4.58% 7
South West -61 23 £45,000 -18.92% 13
Yorkshire +46 21 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North East -12 6 £35,000 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -35 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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) TWiki
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) SAP HR
2 8 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
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%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.83%) Azure
2 30 (8.55%) AWS
3 22 (6.27%) SaaS
4 17 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (4.84%) Serverless
5 12 (3.42%) GitHub
5 12 (3.42%) SuccessFactors
6 10 (2.85%) Boomi
6 10 (2.85%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.99%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (1.99%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 7 (1.99%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.71%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.27%) 5G
1 22 (6.27%) Bluetooth
1 22 (6.27%) GSM
1 22 (6.27%) ISDN
1 22 (6.27%) LTE
1 22 (6.27%) PSTN
1 22 (6.27%) UMTS
1 22 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
1 22 (6.27%) Wireless
2 6 (1.71%) Internet
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) DHCP
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 10 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.71%) Power BI
6 5 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.42%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.28%) DB2
9 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.28%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.28%) MySQL
9 1 (0.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 102 (29.06%) Selenium
2 57 (16.24%) JIRA
3 29 (8.26%) Cucumber
4 27 (7.69%) Postman
5 23 (6.55%) LabVIEW
6 22 (6.27%) JMeter
7 16 (4.56%) SpecFlow
8 15 (4.27%) Jenkins
8 15 (4.27%) LoadRunner
9 13 (3.70%) Cypress.io
9 13 (3.70%) TeamCity
10 11 (3.13%) Git
11 10 (2.85%) MSTest
12 8 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 7 (1.99%) JUnit
13 7 (1.99%) SoapUI
13 7 (1.99%) TestRail
13 7 (1.99%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.71%) HP UFT
14 6 (1.71%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.52%) Finance
3 53 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (8.26%) Aerospace
6 23 (6.55%) Law
6 23 (6.55%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.41%) Banking
8 18 (5.13%) Marketing
8 18 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (4.27%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.27%) Retail
11 11 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.28%) Automotive
13 6 (1.71%) Games
13 6 (1.71%) Legal
13 6 (1.71%) Police
14 5 (1.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (21.65%) Analyst
2 60 (17.09%) Tester
3 55 (15.67%) Test Engineer
4 51 (14.53%) Senior
5 49 (13.96%) Test Analyst
6 30 (8.55%) Automation Tester
7 26 (7.41%) QA Engineer
8 22 (6.27%) QA Analyst
9 17 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.27%) Consultant
10 15 (4.27%) Hardware Engineer
10 15 (4.27%) Lead
10 15 (4.27%) Software Tester
11 13 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.70%) Developer
11 13 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
12 12 (3.42%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) QA Test Analyst
13 11 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.12%) Gherkin
2 16 (4.56%) XML
3 14 (3.99%) .NET
3 14 (3.99%) Node.js
4 13 (3.70%) Middleware
4 13 (3.70%) REST
5 11 (3.13%) HTML
5 11 (3.13%) Playwright
5 11 (3.13%) Spring
6 10 (2.85%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.56%) Web Services
8 7 (1.99%) RESTful
9 6 (1.71%) JSON
9 6 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.71%) SOAP
9 6 (1.71%) Svelte
10 4 (1.14%) XSLT
11 3 (0.85%) CSS
11 3 (0.85%) POSIX
11 3 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.27%) Acoustics
3 22 (6.27%) Satnav
4 17 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.71%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.42%) SCADA
10 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.14%) NHS
10 4 (1.14%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.57%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.57%) Derivative
11 2 (0.57%) Equities
11 2 (0.57%) PMI
11 2 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.69%) Windows
2 19 (5.41%) Linux
3 5 (1.42%) 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
5 3 (0.85%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (64.96%) Test Automation
2 178 (50.71%) Agile
3 113 (32.19%) Software Testing
4 74 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (18.52%) Regression Testing
6 63 (17.95%) Coaching
7 61 (17.38%) Mentoring
7 61 (17.38%) Test Strategy
8 60 (17.09%) Collaborative Working
9 59 (16.81%) DevOps
10 57 (16.24%) CI/CD
11 55 (15.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 54 (15.38%) Performance Testing
13 46 (13.11%) Test Management
14 44 (12.54%) Manual Testing
15 42 (11.97%) Scrum
16 38 (10.83%) Defect Management
16 38 (10.83%) Functional Testing
16 38 (10.83%) SDLC
17 37 (10.54%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (21.08%) Python
2 46 (13.11%) Java
3 44 (12.54%) SQL
4 37 (10.54%) C#
5 31 (8.83%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.42%) C
7 10 (2.85%) Bash
8 9 (2.56%) C++
9 8 (2.28%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.14%) Groovy
12 3 (0.85%) Perl
12 3 (0.85%) VB
13 2 (0.57%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.28%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 85 (24.22%) Degree
3 55 (15.67%) ISTQB
4 41 (11.68%) SC Cleared
5 31 (8.83%) DV Cleared
6 28 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (5.70%) ISEB
8 5 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.14%) CIPD
9 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.85%) CBAP
10 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.85%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.57%) HND
11 2 (0.57%) IIBA
11 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (40.17%) QA
2 10 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.85%) WCAG
4 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.57%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.28%) Firmware
2 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.70%) Grafana
2 9 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.28%) Terraform
4 7 (1.99%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.28%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 49 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.98%) SAP
3 20 (5.70%) Oracle
4 12 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.28%) Dell
6 5 (1.42%) Google
6 5 (1.42%) VMware
7 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.85%) Progress
9 2 (0.57%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.57%) Intapp
9 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.57%) Splunk
9 2 (0.57%) Workday
9 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.28%) Citrix
10 1 (0.28%) Denodo
10 1 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.28%) Talend