Test Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 24 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 42 67 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.90% 7.49% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 7.95% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 24
10th Percentile £370 £411 £413
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £638 £491
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +29.97% +30.37%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £538
90th Percentile £536 - £594
Scotland median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +41.62% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £47.00
% change year-on-year -41.03% +41.62% +25.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 789 843 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.96% 94.30% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 613 705
10th Percentile £275 £325 £256
25th Percentile £400 £410 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £538
90th Percentile £650 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 30 13
10th Percentile £12.38 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.38 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +25.22% -64.05% +116.16%
75th Percentile £40.94 £32.19 £43.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £58.93 £49.23
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%

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 5 May 2024.

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 6 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
4 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.90%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) Relational Database
2 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 3 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (2.38%) DB2
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.38%) HBase
6 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.19%) Git
3 8 (19.05%) Cucumber
4 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 5 (11.90%) JUnit
5 5 (11.90%) Mockito
6 4 (9.52%) JIRA
7 3 (7.14%) Selenium
7 3 (7.14%) WebDriver
8 2 (4.76%) Postman
9 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.38%) Gatling
9 1 (2.38%) GitLab
9 1 (2.38%) JMeter
9 1 (2.38%) TestComplete
9 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Lead Java Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
5 2 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) RESTful
2 9 (21.43%) Spring
3 8 (19.05%) JSON
3 8 (19.05%) Kafka
3 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.05%) Web Services
4 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (14.29%) AWS CDK
5 6 (14.29%) LDAP
5 6 (14.29%) OpenID
5 6 (14.29%) OpenTracing
5 6 (14.29%) XML
6 5 (11.90%) CSS
6 5 (11.90%) HTML
6 5 (11.90%) React
7 3 (7.14%) Gherkin
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.76%) Redfish
8 2 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 6 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.95%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (30.95%) Microservices
4 11 (26.19%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Unit Testing
5 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (19.05%) SDLC
8 7 (16.67%) Community of Practice
8 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 7 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (14.29%) Analytics
9 6 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
9 6 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
9 6 (14.29%) OO
10 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.90%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) Java
2 9 (21.43%) C
2 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (21.43%) Python
3 8 (19.05%) Scala
4 6 (14.29%) Go
4 6 (14.29%) Kotlin
5 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.52%) Perl
7 3 (7.14%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) Groovy
8 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.76%) SQL
9 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) ISEB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.38%) HDFS
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 6 (14.29%) Zipkin
3 5 (11.90%) Grafana
3 5 (11.90%) Terraform
4 3 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Cadence
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) HP
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Dell
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Sybase