Test Automation Contracts in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 25 43
Rank change year-on-year -34 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 75 225 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.45% 8.15% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 8.81% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 181 124
10th Percentile £363 £406 £407
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £478
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +0.42% +12.47%
75th Percentile £505 £574 £550
90th Percentile £539 £738 £596
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.82% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £28.53 £62.84 -
25th Percentile £32.31 £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.03% +41.62% +25.33%
75th Percentile £46.81 £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.98 £68.53 -
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £69.38 £56.09
% change year-on-year -11.71% +23.69% +24.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 2,555 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.29% 92.54% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,831 2,264
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £655 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 57 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £47.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Glasgow -4 41 £486 -20.65% 19
Edinburgh -32 26 £466 -1.84% 17
Perthshire +8 2 £525 -7.57%
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
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 8 (10.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.00%) CMS
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) AWS
2 21 (28.00%) Azure
3 12 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (16.00%) Serverless
4 11 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.00%) GCP
6 8 (10.67%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.33%) IaaS
9 3 (4.00%) SaaS
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.67%) OCI
10 2 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.33%) 2G
2 1 (1.33%) 5G
2 1 (1.33%) DHCP
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (17.33%) Relational Database
2 7 (9.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.00%) InfluxDB
5 3 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.67%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.67%) GIS
6 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.33%) Big Data
7 1 (1.33%) DB2
7 1 (1.33%) HBase
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (29.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (24.00%) Git
3 12 (16.00%) Selenium
4 11 (14.67%) JIRA
5 10 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 10 (13.33%) GitLab
5 10 (13.33%) WebDriver
6 8 (10.67%) Bitbucket
7 6 (8.00%) JUnit
7 6 (8.00%) Mockito
8 5 (6.67%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.67%) Visual Studio
9 4 (5.33%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.67%) Appium
10 2 (2.67%) Postman
10 2 (2.67%) Subversion
10 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.33%) Gatling
11 1 (1.33%) NUnit
11 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
2 13 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Banking
4 5 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (45.33%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (10.67%) Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Lead
4 7 (9.33%) Test Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Automation Tester
5 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Tester
6 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Pega Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) RESTful
2 13 (17.33%) AWS CDK
3 12 (16.00%) Spring
4 11 (14.67%) JSON
4 11 (14.67%) Kafka
4 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
5 9 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (10.67%) OpenTracing
6 8 (10.67%) REST
6 8 (10.67%) Web Services
7 7 (9.33%) .NET
7 7 (9.33%) CSS
8 6 (8.00%) HTML
8 6 (8.00%) LDAP
8 6 (8.00%) Node.js
8 6 (8.00%) OpenID
8 6 (8.00%) React
8 6 (8.00%) XML
9 4 (5.33%) PostGIS
9 4 (5.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.67%) Data Structures
2 8 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.67%) Equities
5 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Linux
2 10 (13.33%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Agile
2 32 (42.67%) CI/CD
3 31 (41.33%) DevOps
4 19 (25.33%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (22.67%) Microservices
5 17 (22.67%) SDLC
6 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
7 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 11 (14.67%) Human-Centred Design
8 11 (14.67%) Inclusive Design
8 11 (14.67%) Test Scripting
9 10 (13.33%) Analytics
9 10 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (12.00%) Migration
10 9 (12.00%) Pair Programming
10 9 (12.00%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.67%) Code Quality
11 8 (10.67%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) Java
2 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
2 17 (22.67%) Python
2 17 (22.67%) SQL
3 12 (16.00%) C#
4 9 (12.00%) C
4 9 (12.00%) Scala
5 8 (10.67%) Bash
5 8 (10.67%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.00%) Go
6 6 (8.00%) Groovy
6 6 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.33%) Perl
7 4 (5.33%) VB
7 4 (5.33%) VB6
8 2 (2.67%) C++
8 2 (2.67%) VBA
8 2 (2.67%) VBScript
9 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) ISEB
1 5 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (5.33%) Degree
3 3 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (10.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.33%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) GDPR
4 2 (2.67%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.33%) HDFS
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.67%) Grafana
3 8 (10.67%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.67%) Zipkin
4 7 (9.33%) Terraform
5 6 (8.00%) Ansible
6 4 (5.33%) Kibana
7 2 (2.67%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (1.33%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Oracle
2 6 (8.00%) Cadence
3 4 (5.33%) Infragistics
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.00%) Pega
5 2 (2.67%) HP
5 2 (2.67%) VMware
6 1 (1.33%) Confluent
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Dell
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Informatica
6 1 (1.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.33%) Sybase