Test Scripting Jobs in the North West

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 203 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 28 14 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.33% 0.32% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.34% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 53
10th Percentile £33,050 £35,580 £33,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,375 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £44,000 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £48,200 £55,300 £100,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,654 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.20% +0.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,135 4,157 8,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.99% 94.82% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,541 2,793 5,153
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,439 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,353
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the North West over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the North West

Test Scripting
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Manchester -8 8 £37,500 -21.05% 7
Merseyside - 8 £37,500 - 1
Cheshire -3 7 - - 2
Lancashire -51 4 - - 2
Cumbria -67 1 - - 3
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) 5G
1 5 (17.86%) Bluetooth
1 5 (17.86%) GSM
1 5 (17.86%) LTE
1 5 (17.86%) UMTS
1 5 (17.86%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (17.86%) Wireless
2 2 (7.14%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) JIRA
2 10 (35.71%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 4 (14.29%) Postman
4 2 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
4 2 (7.14%) LabVIEW
4 2 (7.14%) MSTest
4 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 10 (35.71%) Automotive
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Law
2 7 (25.00%) Legal
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Electronics
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) QA Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) EMC Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) EMC Test Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) QA Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Software Tester
5 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Tester
6 2 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Operations Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Junior
7 1 (3.57%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Junior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) XML
2 2 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Satnav
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (46.43%) Software Testing
3 9 (32.14%) Regression Testing
4 7 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (21.43%) CRM
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Exploratory Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Release Management
5 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Validation
6 5 (17.86%) API Testing
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) Data Management
6 5 (17.86%) Manual Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Stress Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) C
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.14%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Aderant
2 5 (17.86%) EMC
3 2 (7.14%) HP
3 2 (7.14%) IBM