Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 34 20 45
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.64% 2.68% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.35% 2.97% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 27
10th Percentile £400 £363 £348
25th Percentile £425 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +5.88% -37.04%
75th Percentile £563 £497 £531
90th Percentile £575 £500 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £468 £463
% change year-on-year +6.95% +1.08% -2.63%

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 636 673 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.77% 90.21% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 431 542
10th Percentile £297 £306 £344
25th Percentile £381 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 16
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £12.06
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £46.61 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.59
% change year-on-year -13.04% +23.72% +2.65%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Automation

Test Automation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.94%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 6 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.94%) DB2
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) HBase
5 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 4 (11.76%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) IntelliJ
3 4 (11.76%) PyCharm
3 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (8.82%) JUnit
4 3 (8.82%) Selenium
5 2 (5.88%) Gradle
5 2 (5.88%) Mockito
5 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.94%) Xcode
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Python Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer in Test
5 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Principal Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Spring
2 7 (20.59%) AngularJS
2 7 (20.59%) Kafka
2 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) Node.js
4 3 (8.82%) Gherkin
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) .NET
5 2 (5.88%) Middleware
5 2 (5.88%) PySpark
5 2 (5.88%) React
6 1 (2.94%) CSS
6 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.94%) J2EE
6 1 (2.94%) JPA
6 1 (2.94%) Playwright
6 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.94%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.71%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (14.71%) Virtual Team
3 4 (11.76%) IVR
3 4 (11.76%) NHS
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.94%) iPad
6 1 (2.94%) iPhone
6 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
2 18 (52.94%) DevOps
3 16 (47.06%) Agile
4 11 (32.35%) SDLC
5 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Data Protection
8 6 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.71%) Analytics
9 5 (14.71%) Build Automation
9 5 (14.71%) CRM
9 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (14.71%) Microservices
9 5 (14.71%) Migration
10 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Java
2 17 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) Go
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) Rust
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
1 4 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) PMO
3 2 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) HDFS
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (29.41%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
1 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.82%) Avaya
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco
2 3 (8.82%) Genesys
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Pega
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) Kronos
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Veracode
4 1 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Workday