Test Automation Job Trends in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 54
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 14 14 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.86% 1.59% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.79% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile - £40,250 £35,025
25th Percentile - £44,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% +5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £60,938
90th Percentile - £67,750 £63,875
Scotland median annual salary £79,859 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +45.20% - -8.33%

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 606 781 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 80.37% 88.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 341 393 464
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,300
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Test Automation.

Salary 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 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 2 (14.29%) HBase
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Financial Institution
2 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (35.71%) Law
3 4 (28.57%) Marketing
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Back Office
5 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Games
6 1 (7.14%) Legal
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Head of Data Management
1 5 (35.71%) Head of Risk Management
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Software Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics NAV Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) React
3 2 (14.29%) JPA
3 2 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) AI
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 6 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (35.71%) Change Management
6 5 (35.71%) Customer Experience
6 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
6 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (28.57%) SDLC
8 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
8 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 3 (21.43%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) CRISC
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO 9001
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) HDFS
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk