Test Scripting Jobs in Scotland

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 197 195
Rank change year-on-year -72 -2 -23
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 18 30 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.63% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.67% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 29
10th Percentile £38,200 £35,575 £36,650
25th Percentile £45,625 £44,688 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +19.32% +30.37%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,625 £67,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,227 4,478 5,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.90% 94.17% 91.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,245 2,766
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,133 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +10.11% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Scripting in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Scripting in Scotland

Test Scripting
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 Scripting within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -114 14 £62,500 +42.86%
Edinburgh +34 2 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Aberdeen - 1 £40,000 -
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 9 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (50.00%) Gradle
2 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 9 (50.00%) JMeter
2 9 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Protractor
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Law
2 9 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) QA Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) QA Software Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Ext JS
1 9 (50.00%) React
1 9 (50.00%) Spring
1 9 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) Software Testing
4 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (55.56%) TDD
5 9 (50.00%) Community of Practice
5 9 (50.00%) Data Validation
5 9 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (50.00%) Microservices
5 9 (50.00%) Regression Testing
5 9 (50.00%) Risk Management
5 9 (50.00%) SDLC
5 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (50.00%) Test Planning
5 9 (50.00%) Validation
5 9 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) TOWER Software
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle