Test Scripting Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 224 245
Rank change year-on-year +61 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 191 254 477
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.30% 1.06% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.19% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 184 336
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £491 £461
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +6.62% +12.04%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £630 £732 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 3
10th Percentile £58.38 £46.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £82.19 £50.00 £41.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £90.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +36.36% +26.92%
75th Percentile - - £73.00
90th Percentile - - £77.20
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% +40.00% +11.11%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Test Scripting daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Scripting.

Test Scripting hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Test Scripting hourly rate 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 9 (4.71%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) LiveLink
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.24%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (3.66%) Oracle AGIS
5 6 (3.14%) SAP Travel Management
6 3 (1.57%) NEC Housing
6 3 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.57%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (1.57%) SAP MM
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (1.05%) SAP APO
7 2 (1.05%) SAP FI-FM
7 2 (1.05%) SAP IBP
7 2 (1.05%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.18%) Azure
2 22 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (3.66%) AWS
4 5 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.09%) OCI
5 4 (2.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (1.57%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.05%) Miro
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.52%) GitHub
8 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.52%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.52%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) DHCP
1 3 (1.57%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) 4G
2 2 (1.05%) 5G
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) VoIP
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.52%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Big Data
5 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.52%) DataStage
5 1 (0.52%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.52%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) Selenium
2 16 (8.38%) JIRA
3 12 (6.28%) JMeter
4 11 (5.76%) Postman
4 11 (5.76%) WebDriver
5 10 (5.24%) JUnit
6 7 (3.66%) Appium
6 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.14%) Git
7 6 (3.14%) LoadRunner
7 6 (3.14%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (3.14%) REST Assured
7 6 (3.14%) TestNG
8 5 (2.62%) SoapUI
8 5 (2.62%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.57%) eggPlant
9 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.57%) SOAtest
10 2 (1.05%) JIRA Agile
10 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.51%) Finance
3 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.28%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.28%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.19%) Electronics
6 8 (4.19%) Marketing
7 7 (3.66%) Banking
7 7 (3.66%) General Ledger
7 7 (3.66%) Retail
8 6 (3.14%) Billing
8 6 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.62%) Military
10 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.09%) Automotive
11 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Back Office
12 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (25.65%) Analyst
2 35 (18.32%) Test Engineer
3 28 (14.66%) Test Analyst
4 24 (12.57%) Consultant
5 22 (11.52%) Test Manager
6 19 (9.95%) Tester
7 15 (7.85%) Business Analyst
8 12 (6.28%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Great Plains Consultant
9 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Consultant
10 8 (4.19%) Architect
10 8 (4.19%) Automation Tester
10 8 (4.19%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (3.66%) Lead
11 7 (3.66%) Oracle Architect
11 7 (3.66%) Oracle Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.66%) Senior
11 7 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.14%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.71%) .NET
2 6 (3.14%) Gherkin
2 6 (3.14%) REST
2 6 (3.14%) SAP TM
2 6 (3.14%) SOAP
3 4 (2.09%) Playwright
4 3 (1.57%) ADO
4 3 (1.57%) EDI
4 3 (1.57%) JSON
4 3 (1.57%) Swagger
4 3 (1.57%) XML
5 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.05%) HTML
5 2 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.05%) Middleware
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.05%) Web Services
5 2 (1.05%) WinForms
5 2 (1.05%) WPF
6 1 (0.52%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.14%) Replication
3 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.57%) PKI
6 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.52%) Blog
7 1 (0.52%) CMDB
7 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.52%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.76%) Windows
2 7 (3.66%) Linux
3 4 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.55%) Test Automation
2 52 (27.23%) Agile
3 47 (24.61%) User Acceptance Testing
4 36 (18.85%) Software Testing
5 31 (16.23%) DevOps
6 28 (14.66%) End-to-End Testing
7 27 (14.14%) Test Strategy
8 26 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.09%) Regression Testing
10 22 (11.52%) Scenario Testing
11 19 (9.95%) SDLC
11 19 (9.95%) User Stories
12 17 (8.90%) Acceptance Criteria
12 17 (8.90%) Test Management
13 15 (7.85%) CI/CD
14 14 (7.33%) Functional Testing
14 14 (7.33%) Requirements Gathering
15 12 (6.28%) System Testing
15 12 (6.28%) Use Case
15 12 (6.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.75%) SQL
2 23 (12.04%) Java
3 15 (7.85%) C#
4 12 (6.28%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.28%) Python
5 8 (4.19%) C++
6 7 (3.66%) C
7 6 (3.14%) Embedded C
8 4 (2.09%) Embedded C++
8 4 (2.09%) VB
9 2 (1.05%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.05%) SOQL
9 2 (1.05%) VB6
9 2 (1.05%) VBScript
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.52%) R
10 1 (0.52%) Swift
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.99%) Degree
3 19 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.38%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.09%) ISEB
8 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.57%) MCSA
8 3 (1.57%) MCSE
8 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.57%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.18%) QA
2 10 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (3.66%) GAAP
5 5 (2.62%) SLA
5 5 (2.62%) WCAG
6 3 (1.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.52%) Grafana
2 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.52%) Kibana
2 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Nagios
2 1 (0.52%) SCCM
2 1 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (17.28%) SAP
2 28 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.47%) Oracle
4 7 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.62%) VMware
6 4 (2.09%) Denodo
6 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.57%) Adobe
7 3 (1.57%) HP
7 3 (1.57%) NEC
8 2 (1.05%) Citrix
8 2 (1.05%) Infragistics
8 2 (1.05%) UiPath
9 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.52%) Ariba
9 1 (0.52%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.52%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.52%) Micro Focus
9 1 (0.52%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.52%) Temenos