Test Scripting Contracts in Yorkshire

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 79 93 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 28 28 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.62% 1.31% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.44% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 32
10th Percentile £413 £450 £301
25th Percentile £434 £475 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £509
90th Percentile £600 £620 £568
England median daily rate £465 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -7.00% +8.11% +14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £46.11 -
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +22 18 £550 +2.80% 3
South Yorkshire +2 10 £450 - 2
Test Scripting
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (10.71%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.57%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) JUnit
2 9 (32.14%) Selenium
3 6 (21.43%) JMeter
4 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.14%) Postman
5 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.57%) Git
6 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.57%) TestNG
6 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Health Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Local Government
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Test Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Tester
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Data Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Software Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) SAP Retail Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.57%) pytest
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Software Testing
1 17 (60.71%) Test Automation
2 13 (46.43%) Acceptance Criteria
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) System Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Unit Testing
3 11 (39.29%) User Stories
4 8 (28.57%) API Testing
4 8 (28.57%) Kanban
4 8 (28.57%) Scrum
4 8 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 7 (25.00%) TDD
6 6 (21.43%) Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (21.43%) SDET
6 6 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) QA
2 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.86%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Brio
1 3 (10.71%) NEC
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Northgate