Test Scripting Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Scripting skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 82 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.79% 0.62% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.67% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £393 £289 -
25th Percentile £513 £316 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £388
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £394
90th Percentile - £558 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +35.48% -8.82% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Test Scripting 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 855 746 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.40% 91.87% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 481 480
10th Percentile £284 £300 £267
25th Percentile £358 £381 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.78% -9.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £569
90th Percentile £675 £613 £630
Scotland median daily rate £451 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.07% +3.28% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 31
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.49 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £15.84
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -51.56% +187.30%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.09% +22.51%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Test Scripting job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Glasgow over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Scripting in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
1 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Mocha
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Automation Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) API Testing
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes