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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 56 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 -29 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 132 421 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.47% 6.30% 8.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 6.82% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 56 127 156
10th Percentile £45,211 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £93,778 £60,000 £76,664
90th Percentile £146,300 £73,460 £86,742
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 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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 0 68 £78,810 +50.11% 47
Lanarkshire - 19 £48,343 - 1
Glasgow +15 5 £42,500 -26.09% 27
Fife -20 5 £51,500 +37.33% 1
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 15
Stirling - 3 - -
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
West Lothian +8 2 - - 1
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 49 (37.12%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) CICS
2 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (55.30%) AWS
2 65 (49.24%) Azure
2 65 (49.24%) GCP
3 9 (6.82%) Serverless
4 8 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.03%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.03%) SaaS
6 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.27%) GitHub
6 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.52%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.52%) npm
7 2 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) Internet
2 2 (1.52%) FTP
2 2 (1.52%) Network Security
2 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) BGP
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (42.42%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.79%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.52%) DB2
6 2 (1.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (44.70%) Maven
2 58 (43.94%) Selenium
3 54 (40.91%) GitLab
3 54 (40.91%) SonarQube
4 52 (39.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (37.88%) JIRA
6 49 (37.12%) Bitbucket
6 49 (37.12%) Cucumber
7 20 (15.15%) Jenkins
8 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
8 7 (5.30%) Git
8 7 (5.30%) JUnit
9 5 (3.79%) Postman
9 5 (3.79%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.79%) TestNG
9 5 (3.79%) webpack
10 4 (3.03%) Visual Studio
11 3 (2.27%) Fiddler
12 2 (1.52%) Checkstyle
12 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
General
1 83 (62.88%) Finance
2 72 (54.55%) Banking
3 54 (40.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.82%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Games
6 2 (1.52%) Local Government
6 2 (1.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (62.88%) Software Engineer
2 29 (21.97%) Senior
3 21 (15.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (12.12%) Lead
5 10 (7.58%) Developer
6 8 (6.06%) Android Engineer
6 8 (6.06%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) Analyst
7 5 (3.79%) Automation Test Analyst
7 5 (3.79%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.79%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (3.79%) Software Developer
7 5 (3.79%) Test Analyst
7 5 (3.79%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (3.03%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (1.52%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (47.73%) React
2 60 (45.45%) Spring Boot
3 59 (44.70%) Spring
4 54 (40.91%) Redux
5 53 (40.15%) CSS
5 53 (40.15%) HTML
6 52 (39.39%) Kafka
7 51 (38.64%) Hibernate
8 49 (37.12%) JPA
9 14 (10.61%) RESTful
10 8 (6.06%) Android Jetpack
10 8 (6.06%) Jetpack Compose
10 8 (6.06%) Playwright
11 6 (4.55%) .NET
11 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.55%) Jest
11 6 (4.55%) Node.js
11 6 (4.55%) REST
11 6 (4.55%) Web Services
12 5 (3.79%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (47.73%) Product Ownership
2 50 (37.88%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (12.12%) Mobile App
4 13 (9.85%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.82%) Online Banking
5 9 (6.82%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.27%) Replication
8 2 (1.52%) AS400
8 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.52%) iSeries
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.76%) Clustering
9 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.82%) Android
2 8 (6.06%) Linux
3 3 (2.27%) Windows
4 2 (1.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 86 (65.15%) Agile
2 86 (65.15%) Software Engineering
3 82 (62.12%) Microservices
4 77 (58.33%) DevOps
5 73 (55.30%) TDD
6 67 (50.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (47.73%) Containerisation
8 61 (46.21%) SDLC
9 57 (43.18%) Clean Code
10 50 (37.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (37.88%) Front End Development
11 49 (37.12%) Performance Optimisation
12 24 (18.18%) Software Testing
13 20 (15.15%) Unit Testing
14 19 (14.39%) Roadmaps
15 17 (12.88%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (9.09%) Pair Programming
16 12 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 85 (64.39%) Java
2 73 (55.30%) JavaScript
3 65 (49.24%) SQL
4 21 (15.91%) Python
5 12 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.82%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.06%) Rust
8 6 (4.55%) C++
9 5 (3.79%) C#
10 2 (1.52%) C
10 2 (1.52%) Go
10 2 (1.52%) RPG
10 2 (1.52%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.76%) JCL
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (1.52%) CCNP
2 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.76%) CCNA
3 1 (0.76%) ISEB
3 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (39.39%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (51.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 82 (62.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (1.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.52%) Grafana
3 2 (1.52%) Istio
4 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.76%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (37.12%) Solace
2 4 (3.03%) Adobe
2 4 (3.03%) Google
2 4 (3.03%) Oracle
2 4 (3.03%) Tealium
3 3 (2.27%) IBM
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.52%) Splunk
5 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.76%) F5
5 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow