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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 -6
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 147 373 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.81% 5.41% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 6.09% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 49 125 110
10th Percentile £46,087 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £93,778 £60,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £146,300 £67,575 £84,598
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 2,757 6,120 4,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.16% 88.77% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 2,608 2,024
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,175 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 20 June 2025.

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 20 June 2025. 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
Edinburgh +6 66 £72,655 +38.39% 84
Glasgow +10 21 £60,000 +4.35% 115
Lanarkshire - 19 £48,343 - 3
Fife -10 5 £51,500 +37.33% 2
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 5
Stirling - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
West Lothian +7 2 - - 3
Moray - 2 £58,000 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
South Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 - 1
Falkirk - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
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 49 (33.33%) Confluence
2 9 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.72%) Apache
4 3 (2.04%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 90 (61.22%) AWS
2 69 (46.94%) GCP
3 67 (45.58%) Azure
4 11 (7.48%) Serverless
5 10 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.08%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.72%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (2.72%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.72%) SaaS
10 3 (2.04%) GitHub
11 2 (1.36%) Apigee
11 2 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) Internet
2 4 (2.72%) Network Security
3 3 (2.04%) DNS
3 3 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (1.36%) FTP
4 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) BGP
5 1 (0.68%) Firewall
5 1 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.48%) Big Data
3 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.44%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.40%) Apache Hive
6 5 (3.40%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.40%) HBase
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.72%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.36%) DB2
9 2 (1.36%) MySQL
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.36%) Power BI
9 2 (1.36%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 69 (46.94%) Maven
2 56 (38.10%) GitLab
2 56 (38.10%) Selenium
3 53 (36.05%) SonarQube
4 51 (34.69%) JIRA
4 51 (34.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 49 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 25 (17.01%) Jenkins
7 9 (6.12%) Git
8 7 (4.76%) Cypress.io
9 6 (4.08%) JUnit
10 5 (3.40%) Gradle
11 4 (2.72%) Postman
11 4 (2.72%) webpack
12 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.36%) Checkstyle
13 2 (1.36%) Fiddler
13 2 (1.36%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.36%) TestNG
General
1 94 (63.95%) Finance
2 75 (51.02%) Banking
3 65 (44.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.52%) Law
5 12 (8.16%) Social Skills
6 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (6.80%) Marketing
8 3 (2.04%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.36%) Local Government
9 2 (1.36%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (65.31%) Software Engineer
2 26 (17.69%) Senior
3 20 (13.61%) Lead
4 18 (12.24%) Developer
4 18 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Software Developer
6 12 (8.16%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (5.44%) Android Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) Automation Test Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (46.94%) React
2 68 (46.26%) Spring
3 62 (42.18%) Spring Boot
4 57 (38.78%) HTML
5 56 (38.10%) Kafka
6 54 (36.73%) CSS
6 54 (36.73%) JPA
7 53 (36.05%) Redux
8 51 (34.69%) Hibernate
9 12 (8.16%) RESTful
10 11 (7.48%) REST
11 8 (5.44%) Android Jetpack
11 8 (5.44%) Jetpack Compose
12 7 (4.76%) Playwright
13 6 (4.08%) jQuery
14 5 (3.40%) AngularJS
14 5 (3.40%) GraphQL
14 5 (3.40%) Jest
14 5 (3.40%) Node.js
14 5 (3.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (44.90%) Product Ownership
2 52 (35.37%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 12 (8.16%) Mobile App
5 9 (6.12%) Online Banking
5 9 (6.12%) Virtual Team
6 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.76%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.72%) Replication
8 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.36%) AS400
9 2 (1.36%) Clustering
9 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.36%) iSeries
9 2 (1.36%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.12%) Android
2 7 (4.76%) Unix
3 5 (3.40%) Linux
4 3 (2.04%) Windows
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (70.07%) Agile
2 99 (67.35%) Software Engineering
3 93 (63.27%) CI/CD
4 85 (57.82%) TDD
5 79 (53.74%) DevOps
6 77 (52.38%) Microservices
7 75 (51.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (44.90%) SDLC
9 64 (43.54%) Containerisation
10 55 (37.41%) Front End Development
11 54 (36.73%) Clean Code
11 54 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 23 (15.65%) Roadmaps
14 21 (14.29%) Software Testing
14 21 (14.29%) Unit Testing
15 17 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (10.88%) User Experience
17 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 91 (61.90%) Java
2 77 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 73 (49.66%) SQL
4 25 (17.01%) Python
5 12 (8.16%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.12%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.44%) Rust
8 6 (4.08%) C++
9 5 (3.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.04%) C#
10 3 (2.04%) Go
11 2 (1.36%) C
11 2 (1.36%) RPG
11 2 (1.36%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.68%) JCL
12 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (8.16%) Degree
2 4 (2.72%) CCNP
2 4 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.04%) CCNA
4 1 (0.68%) ISEB
4 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (36.05%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (46.26%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (55.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.61%) Terraform
3 3 (2.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (33.33%) Solace
2 10 (6.80%) Oracle
3 5 (3.40%) Cloudera
3 5 (3.40%) Databricks
3 5 (3.40%) IBM
4 4 (2.72%) Adobe
4 4 (2.72%) Google
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.72%) Splunk
4 4 (2.72%) Tealium
5 3 (2.04%) F5
6 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow