Test Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation 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 45 42 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +23
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 35 42 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.39% 4.79% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.21% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 58
10th Percentile £313 £370 £414
25th Percentile £363 £400 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £486 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -28.00% +42.11%
75th Percentile £480 £500 £750
90th Percentile £500 £536 -
Scotland median daily rate £448 £478 £485
% change year-on-year -6.28% -1.55% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% +41.62%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £39.25 £66.56
% change year-on-year -50.66% -41.03% +41.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Test Automation 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%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.57%) Serverless
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) DB2
1 9 (25.71%) Relational Database
2 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.71%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.71%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.71%) MySQL
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) JUnit
2 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 5 (14.29%) Mockito
4 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket
5 3 (8.57%) Git
5 3 (8.57%) GitLab
5 3 (8.57%) Selenium
5 3 (8.57%) Xcode
6 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.86%) Gatling
7 1 (2.86%) Gradle
7 1 (2.86%) JMeter
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (11.43%) Front Office
6 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
8 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.86%) Electronics
9 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.86%) Marketing
9 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Python Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Automation Tester
5 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
2 8 (22.86%) Kafka
3 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.43%) JMS
5 3 (8.57%) FastAPI
5 3 (8.57%) Hibernate
5 3 (8.57%) pytest
5 3 (8.57%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) SwiftUI
5 3 (8.57%) UIKit
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.71%) Django
6 2 (5.71%) React
6 2 (5.71%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) Ext JS
7 1 (2.86%) J2EE
7 1 (2.86%) Java EE
7 1 (2.86%) Playwright
7 1 (2.86%) SOAP
7 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (11.43%) Equities
2 3 (8.57%) Credit Risk
2 3 (8.57%) iPad
2 3 (8.57%) iPhone
2 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Android
3 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Agile
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (28.57%) SDLC
5 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
6 8 (22.86%) Build Automation
7 7 (20.00%) TDD
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (14.29%) BDD
9 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (14.29%) Microservices
10 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.43%) Multithreading
10 4 (11.43%) Scenario Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Java
2 14 (40.00%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Objective-C
5 3 (8.57%) Swift
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Podman
4 2 (5.71%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle
2 6 (17.14%) Sybase
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.57%) Netskope
4 3 (8.57%) Proofpoint
4 3 (8.57%) Splunk
4 3 (8.57%) Symantec
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.86%) SAP