Software Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Software Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 77 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.75% 0.57% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.62% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £335 £466 £410
25th Percentile £368 £477 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £496 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -17.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £450 £498 £700
90th Percentile £475 £499 £723
Scotland median daily rate £400 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -19.68% +4.84% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software 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 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Glasgow

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) DocuSign
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow