Test Automation Jobs in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 67 21
Rank change year-on-year +17 -46 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 5 284 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.02% 7.12% 11.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 7.36% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 31
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,150 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,375 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £43,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £86,000 £70,625
Scotland median annual salary £59,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.00% -16.67% +14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 440 3,857 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.61% 96.64% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 253 831 658
10th Percentile £32,570 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £78,750 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Solace