Test Scripting Jobs in the North of England

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 350 329 179
Rank change year-on-year -21 -150 +59
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 62 94 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.60% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.62% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51 52 125
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,843 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,654
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £77,715 £71,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,081 15,203 17,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.10% 96.75% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,841 7,774 10,691
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,225 £81,500 £80,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England.

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the North of England

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -40 35 £47,500 +8.57% 9
Yorkshire +48 21 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North East -14 6 £35,000 -37.50% 1
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.23%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (9.68%) BrowserStack
3 5 (8.06%) AWS
3 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.84%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) Multicast
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.84%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Selenium
2 10 (16.13%) JMeter
2 10 (16.13%) Postman
3 6 (9.68%) HP UFT
3 6 (9.68%) JIRA
3 6 (9.68%) LoadRunner
4 5 (8.06%) Cucumber
4 5 (8.06%) MSTest
4 5 (8.06%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (6.45%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (6.45%) SpecFlow
6 2 (3.23%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.23%) Git
6 2 (3.23%) Subversion
6 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.61%) JUnit
7 1 (1.61%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 11 (17.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Police
4 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Retail
6 4 (6.45%) Law
6 4 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.84%) Legal
8 2 (3.23%) Automotive
8 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Banking
9 1 (1.61%) Marketing
9 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Analyst
2 14 (22.58%) Test Analyst
3 12 (19.35%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Test Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Software Tester
7 4 (6.45%) Tester
8 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.23%) QA Leader
9 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
10 1 (1.61%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) XML
2 6 (9.68%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) HTML
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (6.45%) Gherkin
3 4 (6.45%) Playwright
3 4 (6.45%) Web Services
3 4 (6.45%) XSLT
4 2 (3.23%) POSIX
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.61%) Behat
5 1 (1.61%) JSON
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) NHS
1 4 (6.45%) Operational Technology
1 4 (6.45%) SCADA
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) FMCG
4 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) FreeBSD
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) Test Automation
2 24 (38.71%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) Software Testing
3 17 (27.42%) Regression Testing
4 15 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 14 (22.58%) Manual Testing
6 13 (20.97%) Performance Testing
7 11 (17.74%) BDD
8 10 (16.13%) API Testing
8 10 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (14.52%) ERP
9 9 (14.52%) SDLC
9 9 (14.52%) Test Management
9 9 (14.52%) Test Strategy
9 9 (14.52%) User Stories
10 8 (12.90%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (12.90%) Functional Testing
10 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.19%) C#
2 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.52%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) SQL
4 6 (9.68%) Java
5 4 (6.45%) Groovy
5 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.84%) VB
7 2 (3.23%) C
7 2 (3.23%) C++
7 2 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.97%) ISTQB
4 8 (12.90%) Degree
5 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.06%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (6.45%) CIPD
6 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
7 3 (4.84%) ISEB
8 2 (3.23%) HND
9 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.81%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Grafana
1 5 (8.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.23%) AVEVA
4 2 (3.23%) Intapp
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow