Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 413 435
Rank change year-on-year -119 +22 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 393 777 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.78% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.82% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 278 490 817
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,528 £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 £63,625 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in the UK

Test Scripting
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England -107 352 £50,000 -9.09% 123
UK excluding London -106 281 £44,500 -11.00% 89
Work from Home -4 178 £50,000 -9.09% 43
South East -4 103 £38,750 -22.50% 20
London -65 90 £70,000 +21.74% 42
North of England -7 59 £45,000 -4.26% 15
Midlands -13 45 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands +10 42 £50,000 -9.09% 13
North West -25 32 £47,500 +8.57% 10
South West -50 29 £55,000 -0.45% 12
Yorkshire +58 21 £42,500 -19.05% 4
East of England -45 21 £40,000 +2.56% 15
Scotland -70 16 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Wales +15 8 £43,250 +44.17% 2
North East +3 6 £35,000 -39.66% 1
East Midlands -21 3 £34,500 +38.00% 9

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (3.82%) Confluence
2 4 (1.02%) TWiki
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.25%) CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (2.80%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 2 (0.51%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.25%) LabWindows
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.20%) Azure
2 35 (8.91%) AWS
3 27 (6.87%) SaaS
4 20 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (5.09%) Serverless
5 19 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (4.83%) GitHub
6 12 (3.05%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (2.80%) Boomi
8 10 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.54%) AWS CloudTrail
8 10 (2.54%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 10 (2.54%) Azure AKS
9 9 (2.29%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.04%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.53%) BrowserStack
11 6 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.85%) 5G
1 23 (5.85%) LTE
2 22 (5.60%) Bluetooth
2 22 (5.60%) GSM
2 22 (5.60%) ISDN
2 22 (5.60%) PSTN
2 22 (5.60%) UMTS
2 22 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (5.60%) Wireless
3 6 (1.53%) Internet
4 3 (0.76%) HTTP
4 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.51%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) 4G
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.27%) Redis
6 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.02%) Power BI
7 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.25%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata
8 1 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (25.19%) Selenium
2 71 (18.07%) JIRA
3 40 (10.18%) Cucumber
4 35 (8.91%) Postman
5 31 (7.89%) JMeter
6 27 (6.87%) Cypress.io
7 24 (6.11%) Jenkins
8 23 (5.85%) LabVIEW
9 16 (4.07%) Git
9 16 (4.07%) SpecFlow
10 15 (3.82%) LoadRunner
11 14 (3.56%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.54%) GitLab
12 10 (2.54%) MSTest
13 9 (2.29%) Gradle
13 9 (2.29%) Maven
14 8 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (1.78%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.78%) Zephyr
16 6 (1.53%) JBehave
General
1 105 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.87%) Finance
3 64 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (8.91%) Law
6 30 (7.63%) Aerospace
7 26 (6.62%) Marketing
8 24 (6.11%) Telecoms
9 20 (5.09%) Public Sector
10 18 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.58%) Retail
11 17 (4.33%) Banking
11 17 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.04%) Police
15 7 (1.78%) Legal
16 6 (1.53%) Automotive
16 6 (1.53%) Electronics
16 6 (1.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 85 (21.63%) Analyst
2 65 (16.54%) Test Engineer
3 62 (15.78%) Senior
3 62 (15.78%) Tester
4 53 (13.49%) Test Analyst
5 39 (9.92%) QA Engineer
6 29 (7.38%) Automation Tester
7 21 (5.34%) QA Analyst
7 21 (5.34%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.83%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (4.58%) Software Tester
10 16 (4.07%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.82%) Consultant
11 15 (3.82%) Hardware Engineer
12 14 (3.56%) SAP Consultant
12 14 (3.56%) Test Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.31%) Developer
13 13 (3.31%) Lead
14 11 (2.80%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.80%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.11%) Gherkin
2 21 (5.34%) Spring
3 19 (4.83%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.58%) Node.js
5 16 (4.07%) Middleware
6 14 (3.56%) .NET
6 14 (3.56%) XML
7 13 (3.31%) REST
8 11 (2.80%) React
9 10 (2.54%) HTML
10 9 (2.29%) Ext JS
11 8 (2.04%) Web Services
12 7 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (1.53%) JSON
13 6 (1.53%) RESTful
13 6 (1.53%) SOAP
13 6 (1.53%) WebdriverIO
14 5 (1.27%) Nightwatchjs
14 5 (1.27%) Playwright
15 4 (1.02%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.60%) Acoustics
3 22 (5.60%) Satnav
4 21 (5.34%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.31%) Market Risk
7 9 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.27%) Replication
10 5 (1.27%) SCADA
11 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.02%) NHS
11 4 (1.02%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.76%) IoT
13 2 (0.51%) FMCG
13 2 (0.51%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.51%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.65%) Windows
2 21 (5.34%) Linux
3 7 (1.78%) Android
4 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.76%) FreeBSD
6 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (65.39%) Test Automation
2 195 (49.62%) Agile
3 131 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 93 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (19.85%) CI/CD
6 77 (19.59%) Regression Testing
7 72 (18.32%) Test Strategy
8 69 (17.56%) Coaching
9 68 (17.30%) DevOps
10 64 (16.28%) Mentoring
11 63 (16.03%) Collaborative Working
12 59 (15.01%) Manual Testing
12 59 (15.01%) Performance Testing
12 59 (15.01%) User Acceptance Testing
13 55 (13.99%) SDLC
14 51 (12.98%) Test Management
15 47 (11.96%) API Testing
16 46 (11.70%) BDD
16 46 (11.70%) Scrum
17 43 (10.94%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.58%) Python
2 53 (13.49%) SQL
3 47 (11.96%) Java
4 44 (11.20%) JavaScript
5 34 (8.65%) C#
6 13 (3.31%) Bash
6 13 (3.31%) C
7 9 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.78%) C++
10 6 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.02%) Groovy
12 3 (0.76%) Perl
12 3 (0.76%) VB
13 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.25%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.88%) Degree
3 49 (12.47%) ISTQB
3 49 (12.47%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 30 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.07%) ISEB
7 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.27%) HND
7 5 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.02%) CIPD
8 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.76%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) MCSE
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (41.98%) QA
2 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.76%) PMO
3 3 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.76%) WCAG
4 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.25%) NCSC
4 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (1.78%) Firmware
2 6 (1.53%) Docker
3 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.09%) Grafana
2 12 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.80%) Kibana
3 11 (2.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.25%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (0.25%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 53 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.62%) Oracle
3 22 (5.60%) SAP
4 18 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.29%) Dell
5 9 (2.29%) TOWER Software
6 7 (1.78%) Splunk
7 5 (1.27%) Google
7 5 (1.27%) VMware
8 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.76%) Progress
10 2 (0.51%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.51%) Intapp
10 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.51%) Workday
10 2 (0.51%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.25%) Denodo
11 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.25%) Talend