Test Automation Specialist Contracts in Scotland

Automation Test Specialist
UK > Scotland

As of 20 April 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Test Specialist daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Specialist 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.045% - 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £453 £388 £500
% change year-on-year +16.77% -22.50% +8.11%

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 2,102 2,709 3,431
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 95.12% 96.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,945 2,434
10th Percentile £200 £250 £208
25th Percentile £381 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £544
90th Percentile £663 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.46
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.43 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% +15.21% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.16 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.03
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%

Test Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation Specialist in Scotland

Test Automation Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation Specialist in Scotland

Test Automation Specialist
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 Test Automation Specialist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 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 - 1 - - 1
Test Automation Specialist
UK

Test Automation Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 20 April 2024, Test Automation Specialist 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 Test Automation Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Test Automation Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets