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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 390 374
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 172 266 701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.70% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.73% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 111 234 471
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,310 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,813 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £49,391
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.36% -1.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,647 £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 31,643 36,464 73,536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.74% 96.03% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,633 25,914 42,367
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 8 June 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 (2.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.40%) SAP HR
2 6 (3.49%) 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 (13.95%) Azure
2 19 (11.05%) AWS
3 15 (8.72%) SaaS
4 14 (8.14%) GitHub
5 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.40%) SuccessFactors
7 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.81%) Boomi
7 10 (5.81%) Serverless
8 7 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.07%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (4.07%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 7 (4.07%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.07%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.49%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.33%) PaaS
12 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) Multicast
2 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.33%) Redis
4 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.74%) Power BI
4 3 (1.74%) 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 63 (36.63%) Selenium
2 39 (22.67%) JIRA
3 21 (12.21%) Postman
4 13 (7.56%) Cucumber
4 13 (7.56%) Jenkins
5 12 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 11 (6.40%) SpecFlow
7 9 (5.23%) JMeter
8 7 (4.07%) Git
9 6 (3.49%) JUnit
10 5 (2.91%) GitLab
10 5 (2.91%) JBehave
10 5 (2.91%) LoadRunner
10 5 (2.91%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.91%) TestRail
10 5 (2.91%) WebDriver
11 4 (2.33%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (2.33%) TestNG
12 3 (1.74%) Appium
12 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.28%) Finance
3 24 (13.95%) Aerospace
4 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.72%) Public Sector
7 14 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (6.40%) Retail
9 8 (4.65%) Law
9 8 (4.65%) Police
10 4 (2.33%) Legal
10 4 (2.33%) Marketing
10 4 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.74%) 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 45 (26.16%) Tester
2 34 (19.77%) Analyst
3 33 (19.19%) Senior
4 27 (15.70%) Automation Tester
5 22 (12.79%) Test Engineer
6 21 (12.21%) QA Engineer
7 20 (11.63%) Test Analyst
8 14 (8.14%) Senior Analyst
9 13 (7.56%) Consultant
10 12 (6.98%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (5.23%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (5.23%) Senior SAP Consultant
11 9 (5.23%) Software Tester
12 8 (4.65%) Senior Test Analyst
13 7 (4.07%) Administrator
13 7 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.40%) Gherkin
2 9 (5.23%) .NET
3 8 (4.65%) HTML
3 8 (4.65%) Node.js
4 7 (4.07%) Middleware
4 7 (4.07%) XML
5 6 (3.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.49%) Web Services
6 5 (2.91%) Nightwatchjs
6 5 (2.91%) RESTful
6 5 (2.91%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (2.33%) Spring
7 4 (2.33%) XSLT
8 3 (1.74%) Playwright
8 3 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.74%) Swagger
9 2 (1.16%) REST
10 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.58%) Behat
10 1 (0.58%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.91%) Replication
5 4 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.33%) NHS
6 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.16%) FMCG
7 2 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.58%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.88%) Windows
2 12 (6.98%) Linux
3 7 (4.07%) Android
4 6 (3.49%) 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 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (62.21%) Test Automation
2 82 (47.67%) Agile
3 53 (30.81%) Software Testing
4 42 (24.42%) Collaborative Working
5 38 (22.09%) DevOps
5 38 (22.09%) Regression Testing
6 33 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (17.44%) CI/CD
7 30 (17.44%) Coaching
7 30 (17.44%) User Acceptance Testing
8 29 (16.86%) Mentoring
9 26 (15.12%) Requirements Analysis
10 25 (14.53%) BDD
10 25 (14.53%) Performance Testing
10 25 (14.53%) Technical Analysis
10 25 (14.53%) Test Assurance
11 24 (13.95%) Manual Testing
12 21 (12.21%) Actionable Insight
12 21 (12.21%) API Testing
13 19 (11.05%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
2 23 (13.37%) C#
3 22 (12.79%) SQL
4 19 (11.05%) Java
4 19 (11.05%) Python
5 9 (5.23%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.65%) Bash
7 4 (2.33%) C
7 4 (2.33%) Groovy
8 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.16%) VB
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Perl
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 26 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.05%) ISTQB
5 18 (10.47%) Degree
6 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.33%) CIPD
7 4 (2.33%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.33%) ISEB
8 3 (1.74%) Sun Certification
9 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (52.33%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) PMO
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.33%) Docker
1 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.33%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (9.30%) Grafana
2 10 (5.81%) Kibana
3 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Oracle
2 17 (9.88%) SAP
3 12 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.65%) Dell
5 4 (2.33%) Google
5 4 (2.33%) Splunk
5 4 (2.33%) VMware
6 3 (1.74%) Progress
7 2 (1.16%) AVEVA
7 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.58%) Ariba
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.58%) Sybase