Test Scripting Contracts in London

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 272 329
Rank change year-on-year +31 +57 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 163 225 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.89% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.98% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 158 221
10th Percentile £325 £321 £331
25th Percentile £408 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £515
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.22% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £730 £765 £688
England median daily rate £465 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -7.00% +8.11% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £16.86 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.02% - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% +40.00% +12.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Scripting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in London

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +58 42 £543 +9.05% 1
West London +28 9 £627 - 1
North London +2 1 £313 -
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) SAS
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (5.52%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (3.68%) SAP Travel Management
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle AGIS
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.45%) SAP SD
5 3 (1.84%) NEC Housing
5 3 (1.84%) Oracle HRMS
6 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.23%) Endur
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.23%) SAP FI-FM
6 2 (1.23%) Temenos Globus
7 1 (0.61%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.18%) Azure
2 12 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.29%) AWS
4 6 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.45%) Azure API Management
5 4 (2.45%) Miro
6 3 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (1.84%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.84%) GCP
6 3 (1.84%) GitHub
7 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.61%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) 5G
1 1 (0.61%) FTP
1 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.68%) Power BI
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.84%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.84%) Tableau
6 2 (1.23%) Big Data
6 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.23%) Tableau Server
7 1 (0.61%) DataStage
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.72%) Selenium
2 19 (11.66%) Git
3 18 (11.04%) JIRA
4 16 (9.82%) Postman
5 14 (8.59%) Appium
5 14 (8.59%) REST Assured
6 13 (7.98%) Cucumber
6 13 (7.98%) JUnit
6 13 (7.98%) TestNG
7 11 (6.75%) SoapUI
7 11 (6.75%) WebDriver
8 10 (6.13%) eggPlant
8 10 (6.13%) SOAtest
9 8 (4.91%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (4.29%) LoadRunner
11 6 (3.68%) JMeter
12 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
13 4 (2.45%) Visual Studio
14 3 (1.84%) Gatling
15 2 (1.23%) JIRA Agile
General
1 64 (39.26%) Social Skills
2 54 (33.13%) Finance
3 29 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.13%) Banking
6 9 (5.52%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.91%) Electronics
7 8 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.91%) Marketing
8 7 (4.29%) Back Office
9 6 (3.68%) Billing
10 5 (3.07%) Retail
11 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.45%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.61%) Local Government
14 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (23.93%) Analyst
2 29 (17.79%) Consultant
3 19 (11.66%) Test Analyst
4 16 (9.82%) Senior
4 16 (9.82%) Test Engineer
4 16 (9.82%) Test Manager
5 14 (8.59%) Developer
5 14 (8.59%) Tester
6 13 (7.98%) Lead
7 12 (7.36%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.52%) Great Plains Consultant
8 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Consultant
8 9 (5.52%) QA Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (4.91%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Management Consultant
11 6 (3.68%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.04%) .NET
2 11 (6.75%) .NET Framework
2 11 (6.75%) REST
3 6 (3.68%) SAP TM
4 5 (3.07%) EDI
4 5 (3.07%) JSON
4 5 (3.07%) XML
5 4 (2.45%) Gherkin
5 4 (2.45%) Middleware
5 4 (2.45%) Node.js
5 4 (2.45%) Playwright
5 4 (2.45%) SailPoint
5 4 (2.45%) Swagger
6 3 (1.84%) CSS
6 3 (1.84%) JDBC
6 3 (1.84%) React
7 2 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.23%) ADO
7 2 (1.23%) HTML
7 2 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.68%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.68%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.68%) Replication
3 5 (3.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.84%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) CMDB
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.23%) PDA
7 1 (0.61%) Blog
7 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Windows
3 4 (2.45%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.13%) Test Automation
2 47 (28.83%) User Acceptance Testing
3 46 (28.22%) Agile
4 30 (18.40%) Test Strategy
5 28 (17.18%) CI/CD
6 26 (15.95%) Scenario Testing
7 24 (14.72%) Software Testing
8 21 (12.88%) End-to-End Testing
9 19 (11.66%) User Stories
10 17 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (9.82%) Regression Testing
11 16 (9.82%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (9.20%) BDD
12 15 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (9.20%) DevOps
12 15 (9.20%) Integration Testing
12 15 (9.20%) Migration
12 15 (9.20%) Test Management
12 15 (9.20%) Use Case
13 14 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.47%) SQL
2 30 (18.40%) Java
3 18 (11.04%) C#
4 14 (8.59%) Python
5 8 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.68%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.84%) VBA
8 2 (1.23%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.23%) C++
8 2 (1.23%) SOQL
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.61%) C
9 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) R
9 1 (0.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.11%) Degree
3 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.75%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.84%) CISSP
6 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.84%) ISEB
6 3 (1.84%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.79%) QA
2 9 (5.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.07%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.45%) GAAP
4 4 (2.45%) SLA
5 3 (1.84%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.84%) PMO
6 2 (1.23%) Basel III
6 2 (1.23%) COREP
6 2 (1.23%) FINREP
7 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 4 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.84%) PingFederate
3 2 (1.23%) Nagios
3 2 (1.23%) SCOM
4 1 (0.61%) Control-M
4 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Microsoft
1 30 (18.40%) SAP
2 22 (13.50%) Oracle
3 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.45%) NEC
5 3 (1.84%) CyberArk
5 3 (1.84%) ForgeRock
5 3 (1.84%) Okta
6 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.23%) CyberSource
6 2 (1.23%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.23%) VMware
7 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks
7 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.61%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.61%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.61%) Splunk
7 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media