Test Automation Job Trends in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 46 56
Rank change year-on-year -58 +10 +21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 43 135 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.02% 5.21% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 5.75% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23 16 47
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +40.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,623 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £68,575
UK median annual salary £62,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & 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 2,869 2,348 2,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.26% 90.62% 83.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,012 1,422
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,900 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 2026. 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 -1 16 £75,000 -11.76% 176
Highlands - 12 £60,000 -
Edinburgh -31 10 £55,000 -16.98% 64
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire -2 1 £100,000 - 14
West Lothian -2 1 - - 1
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.98%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.33%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.33%) Dagster
7 1 (2.33%) Google Play
7 1 (2.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) BGP
1 2 (4.65%) OSPF
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
1 2 (4.65%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) Broadband
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) IPsec
2 1 (2.33%) Multicast
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.65%) Parquet
4 2 (4.65%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) JMeter
2 3 (6.98%) Selenium
3 2 (4.65%) Burp Suite
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (16.28%) Marketing
5 6 (13.95%) Law
6 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.65%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.33%) Aviation
8 1 (2.33%) Military
8 1 (2.33%) Publishing
8 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Hardware Engineer
1 12 (27.91%) Test Automation Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Software Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Manager
8 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Applications Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Release Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Node.js
1 4 (9.30%) Playwright
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) PySpark
2 3 (6.98%) React
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
3 2 (4.65%) JSON
3 2 (4.65%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) WinForms
4 1 (2.33%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.33%) JSF
4 1 (2.33%) NestJS
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (18.60%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.65%) Educational Technology
4 2 (4.65%) FPGA
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) AI
4 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
5 12 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (25.58%) Validation
7 10 (23.26%) DevOps
7 10 (23.26%) Observability
8 9 (20.93%) SDLC
9 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
9 7 (16.28%) Microservices
10 6 (13.95%) Analytics
10 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.95%) Test Strategy
11 5 (11.63%) Coaching
11 5 (11.63%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (11.63%) Operational Stability
11 5 (11.63%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) Go
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
4 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.65%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.33%) Rust
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) ISEB
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) EMC Certification
5 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.33%) DO-160
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Databricks
1 3 (6.98%) Google
1 3 (6.98%) HP
1 3 (6.98%) IBM
2 1 (2.33%) Arista
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco
2 1 (2.33%) EMC
2 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.33%) Meraki
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft