Test Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 17 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.41% 5.26% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.74% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 45
10th Percentile £340 £359 £378
25th Percentile £388 £366 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -18.27% +28.40%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £750
90th Percentile - £619 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £456 £480
% change year-on-year +1.37% -4.95% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 628 766 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.95% 91.63% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 515 628
10th Percentile £280 £346 £300
25th Percentile £356 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £684
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 15
10th Percentile £16.92 £11.40 £21.64
25th Percentile £19.05 £12.13 £30.49
Median hourly rate £19.59 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% -61.26% -1.57%
75th Percentile £29.34 £17.72 £45.84
90th Percentile £42.50 £36.36 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Glasgow

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (17.65%) MariaDB
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
1 5 (29.41%) SoapUI
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 3 (17.65%) Postman
4 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) Mockito
5 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Electronics
5 1 (5.88%) French Language
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer in Test
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) REST
4 4 (23.53%) Spring MVC
5 3 (17.65%) CSS3
5 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
5 3 (17.65%) HTML5
5 3 (17.65%) JPA
5 3 (17.65%) jQuery
5 3 (17.65%) JSP
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) Swagger
6 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (11.76%) React
6 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Security
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (11.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Microservices
2 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Application Security
4 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
4 3 (17.65%) Coaching
4 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) OO
4 3 (17.65%) OOD
4 3 (17.65%) OWASP
4 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Story Points
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) C++
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Istio
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.76%) Zipkin
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Veracode