Software Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Software Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 72 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 5 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.56% 1.64% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.74% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile £466 £410 £333
25th Percentile £477 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £638 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +50.00% +8.97%
75th Percentile £498 £700 £488
90th Percentile £499 £726 £636
Scotland median daily rate £482 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +1.37% +11.76% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Testing 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 advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 828 860 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.00% 94.30% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 625 713
10th Percentile £285 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% -42.51% -27.59%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) SDET
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware