Test Scripting Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 397 410
Rank change year-on-year -162 +13 +31
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 388 745 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.79% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.82% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 268 483 831
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,688 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -148 347 £50,000 -9.09% 105
UK excluding London -115 275 £42,500 -15.00% 69
Work from Home -41 175 £49,000 -10.91% 42
South East -24 100 £37,500 -25.00% 15
London -55 90 £70,000 +27.27% 38
North of England -3 59 £45,000 -4.26% 15
Midlands -19 43 £50,000 -9.09% 12
West Midlands -18 40 £50,000 -25.93% 9
North West -25 32 £47,500 +8.57% 9
South West -55 26 £48,500 -12.61% 14
East of England -46 23 £40,000 +4.58% 5
Yorkshire +45 21 £42,500 -19.05% 5
Scotland -68 16 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Wales +15 8 £43,250 +44.17% 2
North East -7 6 £35,000 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -20 3 £34,500 +38.00% 3

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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.03%) TWiki
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (3.09%) SAP HR
2 7 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 2 (0.52%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.26%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.26%) Maximo
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.34%) Azure
2 32 (8.25%) AWS
3 28 (7.22%) SaaS
4 18 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (4.64%) Serverless
5 17 (4.38%) GitHub
6 13 (3.35%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (2.84%) Boomi
8 9 (2.32%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.06%) AWS CloudTrail
9 8 (2.06%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 8 (2.06%) Azure AKS
9 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.55%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.93%) 5G
2 22 (5.67%) Bluetooth
2 22 (5.67%) GSM
2 22 (5.67%) ISDN
2 22 (5.67%) LTE
2 22 (5.67%) PSTN
2 22 (5.67%) UMTS
2 22 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (5.67%) Wireless
3 6 (1.55%) Internet
4 3 (0.77%) HTTP
4 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.52%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) 4G
6 1 (0.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.26%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.58%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.29%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.29%) Redis
6 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.03%) Power BI
7 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.26%) DB2
8 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.26%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 104 (26.80%) Selenium
2 72 (18.56%) JIRA
3 40 (10.31%) Cucumber
4 36 (9.28%) Postman
5 31 (7.99%) JMeter
6 28 (7.22%) Cypress.io
7 25 (6.44%) Jenkins
8 23 (5.93%) LabVIEW
9 17 (4.38%) SpecFlow
10 15 (3.87%) Git
10 15 (3.87%) LoadRunner
11 14 (3.61%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.58%) GitLab
12 10 (2.58%) MSTest
13 9 (2.32%) Gradle
13 9 (2.32%) Maven
14 8 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (1.80%) JUnit
15 7 (1.80%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.80%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.88%) Finance
3 66 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (15.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (8.76%) Law
6 30 (7.73%) Aerospace
7 27 (6.96%) Marketing
8 23 (5.93%) Telecoms
9 19 (4.90%) Public Sector
10 18 (4.64%) Banking
10 18 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (4.12%) Retail
13 13 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (2.06%) Legal
15 8 (2.06%) Police
16 6 (1.55%) Automotive
16 6 (1.55%) Games
17 5 (1.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (20.88%) Analyst
2 65 (16.75%) Test Engineer
3 63 (16.24%) Tester
4 60 (15.46%) Senior
5 53 (13.66%) Test Analyst
6 39 (10.05%) QA Engineer
7 30 (7.73%) Automation Tester
8 22 (5.67%) QA Analyst
9 21 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.64%) Software Tester
11 17 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (4.12%) Consultant
13 15 (3.87%) Hardware Engineer
14 14 (3.61%) Lead
14 14 (3.61%) SAP Consultant
15 13 (3.35%) Business Analyst
15 13 (3.35%) Developer
15 13 (3.35%) Test Automation Engineer
16 11 (2.84%) Principal Engineer
16 11 (2.84%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.19%) Gherkin
2 21 (5.41%) Spring
3 19 (4.90%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.64%) Node.js
5 15 (3.87%) XML
6 14 (3.61%) .NET
6 14 (3.61%) Middleware
7 13 (3.35%) REST
8 11 (2.84%) HTML
8 11 (2.84%) React
9 9 (2.32%) Ext JS
9 9 (2.32%) Web Services
10 7 (1.80%) Playwright
10 7 (1.80%) RESTful
11 6 (1.55%) JSON
11 6 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.55%) SOAP
11 6 (1.55%) Svelte
11 6 (1.55%) WebdriverIO
12 5 (1.29%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (5.67%) Acoustics
3 22 (5.67%) Satnav
4 21 (5.41%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.87%) Market Risk
5 15 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.29%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.29%) Replication
9 5 (1.29%) SCADA
10 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.03%) NHS
10 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.52%) Bitcoin
11 2 (0.52%) FMCG
11 2 (0.52%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.51%) Windows
2 19 (4.90%) Linux
3 7 (1.80%) Android
4 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.77%) FreeBSD
6 3 (0.77%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.52%) Unix
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (66.75%) Test Automation
2 192 (49.48%) Agile
3 136 (35.05%) Software Testing
4 92 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (20.36%) Regression Testing
6 77 (19.85%) CI/CD
7 71 (18.30%) Test Strategy
8 67 (17.27%) DevOps
9 66 (17.01%) Coaching
10 63 (16.24%) Collaborative Working
10 63 (16.24%) Mentoring
11 61 (15.72%) User Acceptance Testing
12 60 (15.46%) Manual Testing
13 58 (14.95%) Performance Testing
14 56 (14.43%) SDLC
15 51 (13.14%) Test Management
16 47 (12.11%) API Testing
16 47 (12.11%) BDD
17 45 (11.60%) Scrum
18 43 (11.08%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.07%) Python
2 53 (13.66%) SQL
3 51 (13.14%) Java
4 47 (12.11%) JavaScript
5 35 (9.02%) C#
6 12 (3.09%) C
7 11 (2.84%) Bash
8 10 (2.58%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.06%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.80%) C++
11 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.03%) Groovy
13 3 (0.77%) Perl
13 3 (0.77%) VB
14 2 (0.52%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.26%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 86 (22.16%) Degree
3 55 (14.18%) ISTQB
4 48 (12.37%) SC Cleared
5 31 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (7.73%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.64%) ISEB
8 5 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.29%) HND
8 5 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.03%) CIPD
9 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.77%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.26%) MCSE
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (42.27%) QA
2 9 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (0.77%) WCAG
4 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) NCSC
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.55%) Docker
1 6 (1.55%) Firmware
2 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) VMware Server
4 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.64%) Grafana
2 11 (2.84%) Kibana
3 10 (2.58%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.32%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.26%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.26%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 53 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.93%) Oracle
3 22 (5.67%) SAP
4 16 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.32%) Dell
5 9 (2.32%) TOWER Software
6 7 (1.80%) Splunk
7 5 (1.29%) Google
7 5 (1.29%) VMware
8 4 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.77%) Progress
10 2 (0.52%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.52%) Intapp
10 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.52%) Workday
10 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.26%) Denodo
11 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.26%) Talend