Smoke Testing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.091% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Smoke Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 926 667 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.18% 91.24% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 417 443
10th Percentile £270 £300 £250
25th Percentile £363 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 13
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.82 £15.38
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.83 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +76.50% -18.24% +67.28%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.68 £20.00 £18.38
% change year-on-year -11.60% +8.84% -3.57%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smoke Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Smoke Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Smoke Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Smoke Testing

Smoke Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python