Automation Tester Contracts in Scotland

Automation Tester
UK > Scotland

The median Automation Tester daily rate in Scotland is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 158 163
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 5 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.22% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.51% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 5
10th Percentile - £368 £410
25th Percentile £363 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +6.51%
75th Percentile £388 £489 £500
90th Percentile - £537 -
UK median daily rate £442 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,161 2,763 3,468
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 95.31% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,983 2,470
10th Percentile £200 £250 £208
25th Percentile £382 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £541
90th Percentile £675 £650 £613
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 46 57
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.53 £12.56
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -14.29% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.56 £60.17 £47.96
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £53.97
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Automation Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Automation Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Tester in Scotland

Automation Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Tester in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Automation Tester in Scotland

Automation Tester
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +26 4 £375 -16.67% 1
Glasgow +7 1 £375 -12.38%
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Automation Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) WebDriver
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing

Automation Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java