Test Automation Jobs in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 114 125 123
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 39 30 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.239% 0.868% 1.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.672% 1.227% 1.353%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 30
Average salary £50,000 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.57% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £29,000 £38,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,500 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Search 7 Test Automation jobs in Scotland
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 2333 2445 2660
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.13% 70.77% 76.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1403 1740 1920
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Scotland region.

Scotland Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -17 17 £50,000 +3.09%
West Lothian - 12 - -
Edinburgh +2 5 £47,500 +35.71%
Dundee -2 3 £24,500 +2.08%
Stirling - 1 - -
Moray - 1 - -
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Test Automation also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Test Automation.

1 36 (49.32%) Software Testing
1 36 (49.32%) QA
2 35 (47.95%) QuickTest Pro
3 34 (46.58%) Finance
4 30 (41.10%) Java
5 24 (32.88%) Agile Software Development
6 23 (31.51%) Banking
6 23 (31.51%) SQL
7 22 (30.14%) HP
8 21 (28.77%) Degree
9 18 (24.66%) Selenium
10 17 (23.29%) Scrum
10 17 (23.29%) ISEB
11 16 (21.92%) ISTQB
12 15 (20.55%) Investment Banking
13 14 (19.18%) Oracle
13 14 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (17.81%) HP Quality Center
15 12 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (16.44%) JUnit
15 12 (16.44%) UNIX
16 11 (15.07%) XML
16 11 (15.07%) J2EE
16 11 (15.07%) LoadRunner
16 11 (15.07%) Automated Testing
16 11 (15.07%) FitNesse
17 10 (13.70%) TDD
17 10 (13.70%) Informatica
17 10 (13.70%) Test Strategy
17 10 (13.70%) Performance Testing

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Test Automation also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (15.07%) XML
1 11 (15.07%) J2EE
2 9 (12.33%) XML Schema
3 7 (9.589%) .NET
4 4 (5.479%) Web Services
5 3 (4.110%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.110%) soapUI
5 3 (4.110%) CSS
5 3 (4.110%) HTML
5 3 (4.110%) Spring
6 2 (2.740%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.740%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.740%) Middleware
6 2 (2.740%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.740%) jQuery
7 1 (1.370%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.370%) WCF
7 1 (1.370%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.740%) IIS
1 2 (2.740%) Apache
2 1 (1.370%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.370%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.370%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.219%) Broadband
2 3 (4.110%) Internet
2 3 (4.110%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.589%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (6.849%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.110%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.110%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.740%) MS Access
5 1 (1.370%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (47.95%) QuickTest Pro
2 18 (24.66%) Selenium
3 12 (16.44%) JUnit
4 11 (15.07%) LoadRunner
4 11 (15.07%) FitNesse
5 6 (8.219%) Cucumber
5 6 (8.219%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.849%) Eclipse
7 4 (5.479%) Subversion
8 3 (4.110%) JBehave
8 3 (4.110%) WebDriver
8 3 (4.110%) Maven
8 3 (4.110%) JIRA
9 2 (2.740%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.370%) Fiddler
10 1 (1.370%) FogBugz
10 1 (1.370%) Concordion
10 1 (1.370%) Ant
10 1 (1.370%) JMeter
10 1 (1.370%) Bugzilla
General
1 34 (46.58%) Finance
2 23 (31.51%) Banking
3 15 (20.55%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.849%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.849%) Retail Banking
4 5 (6.849%) Retail
5 2 (2.740%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.370%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Analyst
1 21 (28.77%) Test Analyst
2 14 (19.18%) Tester
3 10 (13.70%) Test Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Agile Tester
4 9 (12.33%) QA Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Performance Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) Test Leader
6 6 (8.219%) Test Team Leader
6 6 (8.219%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.849%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (6.849%) QA Test Analyst
7 5 (6.849%) Technical Test Analyst
7 5 (6.849%) QA Analyst
8 4 (5.479%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.479%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (4.110%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.110%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.110%) Quality Analyst
10 2 (2.740%) Senior QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Reference Data
2 3 (4.110%) Open Source
2 3 (4.110%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.110%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.110%) IVR
2 3 (4.110%) Online Banking
3 2 (2.740%) Derivative
3 2 (2.740%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.740%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.370%) iPhone
4 1 (1.370%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.370%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) UNIX
2 5 (6.849%) Linux
3 3 (4.110%) Windows
4 1 (1.370%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (49.32%) Software Testing
2 24 (32.88%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (23.29%) Scrum
4 14 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.07%) Automated Testing
7 10 (13.70%) TDD
7 10 (13.70%) Test Strategy
7 10 (13.70%) Performance Testing
7 10 (13.70%) Test Management
8 9 (12.33%) User Stories
8 9 (12.33%) Benchmarking
8 9 (12.33%) ETL
9 7 (9.589%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (6.849%) Test Scripting
11 4 (5.479%) Unit Testing
11 4 (5.479%) BDD
12 3 (4.110%) User Acceptance Testing
12 3 (4.110%) Investment Management
12 3 (4.110%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) Java
2 23 (31.51%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) VBScript
4 4 (5.479%) Perl
4 4 (5.479%) C#
4 4 (5.479%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.110%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.740%) Ruby
6 2 (2.740%) VB
6 2 (2.740%) VBA
7 1 (1.370%) Groovy
7 1 (1.370%) Python
7 1 (1.370%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 21 (28.77%) Degree
2 17 (23.29%) ISEB
3 16 (21.92%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.110%) CSQA
5 2 (2.740%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (2.740%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.740%) Sun Certification
5 2 (2.740%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.370%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (49.32%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.370%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (17.81%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.370%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) HP
2 14 (19.18%) Oracle
3 10 (13.70%) Informatica
4 7 (9.589%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.110%) Siebel
5 3 (4.110%) Cognizant
6 2 (2.740%) JBoss
7 1 (1.370%) Cadis
7 1 (1.370%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.370%) Sybase
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Test Analyst
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Tester
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Salary: £20000 - £40000 per annum
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