Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Software Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 5 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.67% 1.29% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.44% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £460 £461 £373
25th Percentile £465 £497 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £543 - £516
90th Percentile £562 - £620
Scotland median daily rate £464 £473 £425
% change year-on-year -1.85% +11.18% -10.53%

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 665 623 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.26% 89.38% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 419 489
10th Percentile £300 £278 £342
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £673 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 19
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.39 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £26.76 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £41.70 £27.64
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
% change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.56%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Software Testing

Software 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) boto
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SDET
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) OCR
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Kronos
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) Workday