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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 56 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 134 422 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.60% 6.27% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 6.75% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 61 127 169
10th Percentile £46,306 £35,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £93,778 £60,625 £76,385
90th Percentile £146,300 £77,000 £84,056
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 2,693 6,250 4,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.38% 92.80% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,418 2,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,499
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +3 71 £77,295 +47.23% 42
Lanarkshire - 19 £48,343 - 4
Fife -13 5 £51,500 +37.33% 2
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 -
Glasgow +15 4 £42,500 -26.09% 21
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 12
Stirling - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
West Lothian +12 2 - - 2
Moray - 2 £58,000 -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
Falkirk - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 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 51 (38.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 69 (51.49%) AWS
2 68 (50.75%) Azure
2 68 (50.75%) GCP
3 8 (5.97%) Serverless
4 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.99%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (2.99%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.24%) GitHub
6 3 (2.24%) SaaS
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.49%) Apigee
7 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.49%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.49%) npm
7 2 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.72%) Internet
2 2 (1.49%) FTP
2 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.75%) BGP
3 1 (0.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (41.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.49%) Big Data
6 2 (1.49%) DB2
6 2 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 60 (44.78%) Selenium
2 59 (44.03%) Maven
3 54 (40.30%) SonarQube
4 53 (39.55%) GitLab
5 52 (38.81%) JIRA
5 52 (38.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 49 (36.57%) Bitbucket
6 49 (36.57%) Cucumber
7 22 (16.42%) Jenkins
8 9 (6.72%) Git
9 7 (5.22%) Cypress.io
9 7 (5.22%) JUnit
10 5 (3.73%) Postman
10 5 (3.73%) TeamCity
10 5 (3.73%) TestNG
10 5 (3.73%) webpack
11 3 (2.24%) Fiddler
11 3 (2.24%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.49%) Checkstyle
12 2 (1.49%) SoapUI
General
1 89 (66.42%) Finance
2 79 (58.96%) Banking
3 54 (40.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.45%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.49%) Games
6 2 (1.49%) Local Government
6 2 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (67.16%) Software Engineer
2 32 (23.88%) Senior
3 24 (17.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (11.94%) Lead
5 9 (6.72%) Developer
6 8 (5.97%) Android Engineer
6 8 (5.97%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.73%) Analyst
7 5 (3.73%) Automation Test Analyst
7 5 (3.73%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.73%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (3.73%) Software Developer
7 5 (3.73%) Test Analyst
7 5 (3.73%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (2.99%) Java Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (2.24%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (1.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (1.49%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 66 (49.25%) Spring
3 63 (47.01%) React
4 54 (40.30%) Kafka
4 54 (40.30%) Redux
5 53 (39.55%) CSS
5 53 (39.55%) HTML
6 51 (38.06%) Hibernate
7 49 (36.57%) JPA
8 14 (10.45%) RESTful
9 8 (5.97%) Android Jetpack
9 8 (5.97%) Jetpack Compose
9 8 (5.97%) Playwright
9 8 (5.97%) REST
10 6 (4.48%) .NET
10 6 (4.48%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.48%) Jest
10 6 (4.48%) Node.js
10 6 (4.48%) Web Services
11 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 62 (46.27%) Product Ownership
2 49 (36.57%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (11.94%) Mobile App
4 14 (10.45%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.72%) Online Banking
6 8 (5.97%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.49%) AS400
8 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.49%) iSeries
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.49%) Replication
9 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Android
2 7 (5.22%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.49%) VMS
3 2 (1.49%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (72.39%) CI/CD
2 92 (68.66%) Software Engineering
3 89 (66.42%) Agile
3 89 (66.42%) Microservices
4 82 (61.19%) DevOps
5 77 (57.46%) TDD
6 67 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (49.25%) Containerisation
8 62 (46.27%) SDLC
9 57 (42.54%) Clean Code
10 50 (37.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (36.57%) Front End Development
11 49 (36.57%) Performance Optimisation
12 24 (17.91%) Software Testing
13 21 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (15.67%) Unit Testing
14 16 (11.94%) Roadmaps
15 12 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (8.96%) Pair Programming
16 11 (8.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 91 (67.91%) Java
2 72 (53.73%) JavaScript
3 67 (50.00%) SQL
4 17 (12.69%) Python
5 12 (8.96%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.72%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.97%) Rust
8 6 (4.48%) C++
9 5 (3.73%) C#
10 4 (2.99%) Go
11 2 (1.49%) RPG
11 2 (1.49%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.75%) C
12 1 (0.75%) JCL
12 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (5.97%) Degree
2 1 (0.75%) CCNP
2 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.75%) ISEB
2 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (38.06%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (54.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 85 (63.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.94%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
3 2 (1.49%) Istio
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (36.57%) Solace
2 4 (2.99%) Adobe
2 4 (2.99%) Google
2 4 (2.99%) Tealium
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle
4 2 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) Splunk