Test Automation Jobs in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -32 -2 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 416 426 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.20% 8.99% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 9.54% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 124 182 300
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,123 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +17.98%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,385 £63,062
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,900 £75,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -49 282 £57,500 +2.22% 14
Edinburgh -10 91 £52,500 -19.23% 19
Aberdeen +11 26 £38,500 -3.75%
Fife +3 13 £37,500 -51.61% 2
Dundee - 3 £45,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 -
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 - 1
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
1 104 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.81%) Confluence
3 14 (3.37%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 164 (39.42%) AWS
2 41 (9.86%) Azure
3 28 (6.73%) SaaS
4 26 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
5 18 (4.33%) GCP
6 11 (2.64%) GitHub
7 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.96%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (0.96%) Serverless
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (0.48%) Datadog
10 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.24%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.35%) Kerberos
2 18 (4.33%) DSL
3 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (22.36%) NoSQL
2 86 (20.67%) Apache Hive
2 86 (20.67%) HBase
3 65 (15.63%) Metadata
4 61 (14.66%) Big Data
5 56 (13.46%) Hadoop
6 33 (7.93%) MongoDB
7 18 (4.33%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.33%) DB2
7 18 (4.33%) Tableau
8 17 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.96%) MySQL
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.24%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 195 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 193 (46.39%) Git
3 89 (21.39%) Bitbucket
4 86 (20.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 66 (15.87%) Artifactory
6 49 (11.78%) Cypress.io
7 34 (8.17%) JIRA
8 29 (6.97%) Cucumber
9 28 (6.73%) JMeter
10 20 (4.81%) Maven
11 17 (4.09%) Selenium
12 16 (3.85%) Jasmine
13 15 (3.61%) Karma Test Runner
13 15 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (2.88%) Visual Studio
15 9 (2.16%) Gradle
16 6 (1.44%) Appium
16 6 (1.44%) MSTest
17 5 (1.20%) JUnit
17 5 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 279 (67.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 277 (66.59%) Finance
3 256 (61.54%) Law
4 147 (35.34%) Marketing
5 72 (17.31%) Banking
6 67 (16.11%) Legal
7 60 (14.42%) Social Skills
8 44 (10.58%) Investment Banking
9 41 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (4.57%) Games
11 18 (4.33%) Financial Institution
12 15 (3.61%) Private Banking
13 6 (1.44%) Aviation
14 4 (0.96%) Electronics
14 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Retail
16 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 256 (61.54%) Software Engineer
2 103 (24.76%) Lead
3 92 (22.12%) Lead Software Engineer
4 88 (21.15%) Developer
5 72 (17.31%) Senior
6 70 (16.83%) AWS Engineer
7 69 (16.59%) AWS Software Engineer
8 62 (14.90%) Java Engineer
9 60 (14.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 58 (13.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 56 (13.46%) Database Developer
11 56 (13.46%) Database Engineer
11 56 (13.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 48 (11.54%) Data Engineer
13 41 (9.86%) QA Engineer
14 37 (8.89%) AWS Database Engineer
14 37 (8.89%) AWS Developer
15 35 (8.41%) Full Stack Engineer
16 34 (8.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 30 (7.21%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (22.12%) RESTful
2 83 (19.95%) JSON
3 79 (18.99%) XML
4 74 (17.79%) Web Services
5 68 (16.35%) LDAP
5 68 (16.35%) OpenID
6 65 (15.63%) JSON-LD
6 65 (15.63%) SAML
7 55 (13.22%) Spring Boot
8 54 (12.98%) React
9 43 (10.34%) Spring
10 40 (9.62%) Kafka
11 38 (9.13%) CSS
12 37 (8.89%) HTML
13 32 (7.69%) .NET
14 25 (6.01%) AngularJS
15 20 (4.81%) ASP.NET
16 19 (4.57%) OpenAPI
17 18 (4.33%) ASP.NET Web API
18 16 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (24.76%) Algorithms
2 90 (21.63%) Management Information System
3 68 (16.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 66 (15.87%) Public Cloud
5 65 (15.63%) Reference Data
6 47 (11.30%) Cloud Native
7 28 (6.73%) Private Cloud
8 26 (6.25%) Market Risk
9 21 (5.05%) Product Ownership
10 11 (2.64%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.16%) IoT
12 7 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.72%) e-Learning
14 2 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (21.39%) Unix
2 17 (4.09%) Linux
3 9 (2.16%) Mac OS
3 9 (2.16%) Windows
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (82.21%) Agile
2 288 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 256 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 238 (57.21%) SDLC
5 223 (53.61%) Operational Stability
6 207 (49.76%) Community of Practice
7 153 (36.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 150 (36.06%) Machine Learning
8 150 (36.06%) TDD
9 122 (29.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (26.20%) Visualisation
11 106 (25.48%) Microservices
12 100 (24.04%) Risk Management
13 97 (23.32%) Architectural Design
14 96 (23.08%) Information Architecture
15 95 (22.84%) Open Source
16 93 (22.36%) Continuous Delivery
17 86 (20.67%) Batch Processing
17 86 (20.67%) Data Modelling
17 86 (20.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 184 (44.23%) Java
2 166 (39.90%) SQL
3 165 (39.66%) Python
4 110 (26.44%) PL/SQL
5 91 (21.88%) JavaScript
6 82 (19.71%) Go
7 65 (15.63%) Prolog
7 65 (15.63%) SPARQL
8 47 (11.30%) C#
9 31 (7.45%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.33%) Scala
10 18 (4.33%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.20%) C
12 3 (0.72%) Bash
12 3 (0.72%) C++
12 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (4.81%) Degree
2 7 (1.68%) ISTQB
3 6 (1.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.96%) ISEB
6 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.48%) OCP
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (20.91%) QA
2 18 (4.33%) SLA
3 16 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.85%) ISO 9001
4 15 (3.61%) WAI
5 4 (0.96%) DICOM
5 4 (0.96%) HL7
5 4 (0.96%) ISO 13485
5 4 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 86 (20.67%) HDFS
2 68 (16.35%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 108 (25.96%) Terraform
2 40 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 104 (25.00%) Databricks
2 86 (20.67%) Informatica
3 56 (13.46%) Cloudera
4 28 (6.73%) Oracle
5 18 (4.33%) Alteryx
5 18 (4.33%) Cognos
5 18 (4.33%) Sybase
6 9 (2.16%) Dell
6 9 (2.16%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.92%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.68%) Google
9 5 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.20%) Splunk
10 4 (0.96%) IBM
11 3 (0.72%) Cadence
12 1 (0.24%) Coverity
12 1 (0.24%) Klocwork
12 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.24%) Thales