Test Scripting Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 12 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.48% 0.89% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.02% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile £356 £231 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £306 £450
Median % change year-on-year +51.84% -31.94% +22.03%
75th Percentile £519 £441 £472
90th Percentile £538 £536 £500
England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +12.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 635 881 1,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.11% 87.57% 82.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 687 872
10th Percentile £200 £223 £200
25th Percentile £275 £350 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +13.92%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £525
90th Percentile £623 £700 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 48 74
10th Percentile £11.41 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £12.75 £15.19 £13.95
Median hourly rate £17.00 £23.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +16.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £30.97
90th Percentile £42.35 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the East Midlands

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northamptonshire +3 8 £363 +52.63% 2
Leicestershire +10 3 £525 - 1
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) HR Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) HR Business Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Manual Testing
3 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (33.33%) System Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Web Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Design
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Journey Map
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) User Journey Map
6 2 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow