Test Scripting Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 96 109
Rank change year-on-year +30 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 36 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.41% 0.73% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.90% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 18
10th Percentile £230 £197 £263
25th Percentile - £300 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £398 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.88% -20.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £483 £456 £538
90th Percentile £534 £531 £550
England median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +6.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,329 1,673 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.02% 81.25% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,100 1,327
10th Percentile £203 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £738 £700
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 121 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.25 £14.43
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +28.57%
75th Percentile £31.38 £40.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £47.50
England median hourly rate £26.48 £37.75 £35.38
% change year-on-year -29.87% +6.71% +37.75%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in the West Midlands

Test Scripting
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 June 2025. 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
Warwickshire - 22 £235 - 7
Birmingham +10 6 £485 +43.78% 12
Shropshire -1 3 £402 -10.35% 17
Coventry +3 2 £431 -17.86% 10
Staffordshire - 1 - - 10
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.78%) AWS
1 1 (2.78%) Azure
1 1 (2.78%) GitHub
1 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (2.78%) OCI
1 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.78%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (16.67%) Selenium
2 5 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 5 (13.89%) JMeter
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.33%) Postman
4 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (8.33%) TestNG
4 3 (8.33%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.78%) Appium
5 1 (2.78%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.78%) JBehave
5 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.78%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.78%) Subversion
5 1 (2.78%) Toad
5 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Support Assistant
2 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Tester
4 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Business Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Integration Manager
6 1 (2.78%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Network Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Project Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) QA Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Software Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.56%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) FPGA
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) SCADA
3 1 (2.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 12 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
4 7 (19.44%) Performance Testing
5 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 5 (13.89%) API Testing
6 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
6 5 (13.89%) Business Process Modelling
6 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Change Control
7 4 (11.11%) Change Management
7 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 4 (11.11%) Functional Testing
7 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) Regression Testing
7 4 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) C#
3 3 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Scala
4 1 (2.78%) Tcl
4 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.33%) CEH
2 3 (8.33%) CISSP
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) SLA
2 7 (19.44%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kibana
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) webMethods
OSZAR »