Test Automation Jobs in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 56 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 -7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 299 201 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.25% 5.30% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 5.52% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 108 107 319
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,736 £36,527
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,125 £67,500 £69,035
90th Percentile £70,375 £81,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Scotland

Test Automation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -20 180 £60,000 +11.63% 13
Edinburgh +14 86 £50,000 -16.00% 7
Aberdeen -4 14 £40,500 -10.00% 1
Fife +4 12 £37,500 -31.82%
Aberdeenshire -7 1 £45,000 +2.86% 1
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 -
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 60 (20.07%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.69%) Confluence
3 15 (5.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.34%) WildFly
5 3 (1.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 90 (30.10%) AWS
2 27 (9.03%) BlazeMeter
3 17 (5.69%) Azure
4 11 (3.68%) GCP
5 10 (3.34%) SaaS
6 8 (2.68%) GitHub
7 6 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.34%) OCI
8 4 (1.34%) Serverless
9 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.00%) Datadog
9 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.67%) AWS CodeStar
10 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.72%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 60 (20.07%) Apache Hive
2 60 (20.07%) HBase
3 44 (14.72%) Metadata
4 30 (10.03%) Big Data
4 30 (10.03%) Hadoop
5 18 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.34%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.34%) MySQL
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 129 (43.14%) Git
2 128 (42.81%) Jenkins
3 66 (22.07%) Bitbucket
4 60 (20.07%) Bitbucket Server
5 45 (15.05%) Artifactory
6 41 (13.71%) JIRA
7 37 (12.37%) Cypress.io
8 31 (10.37%) JMeter
9 30 (10.03%) Cucumber
10 24 (8.03%) Selenium
11 12 (4.01%) Maven
12 10 (3.34%) Gradle
13 8 (2.68%) Visual Studio
14 6 (2.01%) MSTest
15 4 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
16 3 (1.00%) GitLab
16 3 (1.00%) HP UFT
16 3 (1.00%) JUnit
16 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (1.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 178 (59.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 177 (59.20%) Finance
3 156 (52.17%) Law
4 78 (26.09%) Marketing
5 60 (20.07%) Legal
5 60 (20.07%) Social Skills
6 24 (8.03%) Banking
7 23 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (6.02%) Investment Banking
9 16 (5.35%) Games
10 5 (1.67%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.34%) Aviation
11 4 (1.34%) Electronics
11 4 (1.34%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Local Government
13 2 (0.67%) Retail
14 1 (0.33%) French Language
14 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (58.86%) Software Engineer
2 65 (21.74%) Lead
3 64 (21.40%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (21.07%) AWS Software Engineer
5 62 (20.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 57 (19.06%) Java Engineer
7 54 (18.06%) Senior
8 52 (17.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 46 (15.38%) Developer
10 40 (13.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (13.04%) QA Engineer
12 36 (12.04%) Full Stack Engineer
12 36 (12.04%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 34 (11.37%) Test Engineer
14 30 (10.03%) AWS Database Engineer
14 30 (10.03%) AWS Developer
14 30 (10.03%) Big Data Engineer
14 30 (10.03%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 30 (10.03%) Data Engineer
14 30 (10.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.73%) RESTful
1 53 (17.73%) Web Services
2 52 (17.39%) React
3 51 (17.06%) JSON
3 51 (17.06%) XML
4 47 (15.72%) LDAP
4 47 (15.72%) OpenID
5 44 (14.72%) JSON-LD
5 44 (14.72%) SAML
6 40 (13.38%) Spring Boot
7 39 (13.04%) Spring
8 21 (7.02%) CSS
9 20 (6.69%) HTML
10 15 (5.02%) JDBC
10 15 (5.02%) Kafka
11 14 (4.68%) .NET
11 14 (4.68%) Playwright
12 13 (4.35%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.01%) Ext JS
14 7 (2.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.40%) Algorithms
2 47 (15.72%) Enterprise Cloud
3 44 (14.72%) Management Information System
3 44 (14.72%) Reference Data
4 27 (9.03%) Market Risk
5 16 (5.35%) IoT
5 16 (5.35%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.02%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.01%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.40%) Unix
2 9 (3.01%) Linux
3 3 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (72.58%) Agile
2 192 (64.21%) Software Engineering
3 180 (60.20%) CI/CD
4 151 (50.50%) SDLC
5 137 (45.82%) Operational Stability
6 121 (40.47%) Community of Practice
7 111 (37.12%) TDD
8 93 (31.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (29.77%) Risk Management
10 88 (29.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 84 (28.09%) Machine Learning
12 82 (27.42%) Software Testing
13 74 (24.75%) Microservices
14 71 (23.75%) Visualisation
15 68 (22.74%) Open Source
16 60 (20.07%) Batch Processing
17 56 (18.73%) Continuous Delivery
18 48 (16.05%) Architectural Design
18 48 (16.05%) Roadmaps
19 47 (15.72%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.47%) Java
2 120 (40.13%) SQL
3 105 (35.12%) Python
4 67 (22.41%) PL/SQL
5 63 (21.07%) JavaScript
6 49 (16.39%) Go
7 44 (14.72%) Prolog
7 44 (14.72%) SPARQL
8 23 (7.69%) C#
9 8 (2.68%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.01%) C
10 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.34%) Bash
12 3 (1.00%) C++
12 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.00%) VB
12 3 (1.00%) VBScript
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (7.36%) Degree
2 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.33%) ISEB
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (27.09%) QA
2 16 (5.35%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.34%) DICOM
3 4 (1.34%) HL7
3 4 (1.34%) ISO 13485
3 4 (1.34%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 60 (20.07%) HDFS
2 47 (15.72%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (23.75%) Terraform
2 17 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
3 6 (2.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (20.07%) Databricks
1 60 (20.07%) Informatica
2 30 (10.03%) Cloudera
3 13 (4.35%) Oracle
4 10 (3.34%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.01%) TOWER Software
6 8 (2.68%) Google
7 7 (2.34%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.01%) Splunk
9 3 (1.00%) Cadence
10 2 (0.67%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.33%) Coverity
11 1 (0.33%) CyberTech
11 1 (0.33%) Klocwork
11 1 (0.33%) Thales