Test Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 31 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 42 65 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.96% 7.34% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 7.78% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 21
10th Percentile £363 £410 £413
25th Percentile £400 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £556 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +17.11% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £538
90th Percentile £535 - £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -0.84% +0.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +41.62% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £47.00
% change year-on-year -41.03% +41.62% +25.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Test Automation 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 783 835 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.55% 94.24% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 602 681
10th Percentile £275 £351 £260
25th Percentile £385 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £640 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 16
10th Percentile £12.03 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.90
Median hourly rate £31.50 £14.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -64.37% +40.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £57.38
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
% change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -2.46%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) Route 53
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.52%) MariaDB
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.38%) Big Data
5 1 (2.38%) DB2
5 1 (2.38%) GIS
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) HBase
5 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.19%) Git
3 9 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (14.29%) Mockito
6 5 (11.90%) JUnit
7 4 (9.52%) JIRA
7 4 (9.52%) Selenium
8 3 (7.14%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.76%) Postman
10 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.38%) Gatling
10 1 (2.38%) GitLab
10 1 (2.38%) JMeter
10 1 (2.38%) TestComplete
10 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) Lead Java Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) RESTful
2 11 (26.19%) Spring
3 10 (23.81%) Kafka
3 10 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 9 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (19.05%) JSON
5 8 (19.05%) OpenTracing
5 8 (19.05%) Web Services
6 6 (14.29%) LDAP
6 6 (14.29%) OpenID
6 6 (14.29%) XML
7 5 (11.90%) AWS CDK
8 4 (9.52%) CSS
8 4 (9.52%) React
9 3 (7.14%) Gherkin
9 3 (7.14%) HTML
9 3 (7.14%) Node.js
10 2 (4.76%) Redfish
11 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
11 1 (2.38%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Data Structures
1 8 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 14 (33.33%) Microservices
4 10 (23.81%) DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Unit Testing
5 9 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (21.43%) SDLC
5 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
7 7 (16.67%) Community of Practice
7 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
8 6 (14.29%) OO
9 5 (11.90%) Analytics
10 4 (9.52%) Data Protection
10 4 (9.52%) Software Testing
10 4 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Java
2 9 (21.43%) C
2 9 (21.43%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) Scala
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.05%) Kotlin
4 6 (14.29%) Go
5 4 (9.52%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) Groovy
7 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.76%) SQL
8 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) ISEB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.38%) HDFS
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
2 8 (19.05%) Zipkin
3 5 (11.90%) Terraform
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
5 3 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.38%) Kibana
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Cadence
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) HP
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Dell
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase