Test Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Automated Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 -27
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 36 53 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.40% 5.91% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 6.26% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 21
10th Percentile £363 £414 £413
25th Percentile £400 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.00% +32.45%
75th Percentile £500 £734 £538
90th Percentile £525 £750 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £480 £491
% change year-on-year -0.94% -2.39% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +41.62% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.03% +52.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 754 846 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.18% 94.31% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 589 649
10th Percentile £275 £349 £268
25th Percentile £376 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +7.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £561 £580 £538
90th Percentile £618 £688 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 34 19
10th Percentile £11.94 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £36.22 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +161.05% -62.93% +87.15%
75th Percentile £54.69 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

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 May 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 8 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Route 53
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) GIS
5 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 7 (19.44%) Git
4 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 6 (16.67%) Mockito
5 5 (13.89%) JUnit
6 4 (11.11%) JIRA
6 4 (11.11%) Selenium
7 3 (8.33%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.56%) Postman
9 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.78%) Gatling
9 1 (2.78%) GitLab
9 1 (2.78%) JMeter
9 1 (2.78%) TestComplete
9 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Developer
2 13 (36.11%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Lead Java Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Developer in Test
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Manual Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Software Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) RESTful
2 11 (30.56%) Spring
3 10 (27.78%) Spring Boot
4 9 (25.00%) Kafka
5 8 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (22.22%) JSON
5 8 (22.22%) OpenTracing
5 8 (22.22%) Web Services
6 6 (16.67%) LDAP
6 6 (16.67%) OpenID
6 6 (16.67%) XML
7 5 (13.89%) AWS CDK
8 4 (11.11%) CSS
8 4 (11.11%) React
9 3 (8.33%) Gherkin
9 3 (8.33%) HTML
9 3 (8.33%) Node.js
10 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 7 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Agile
1 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (36.11%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (36.11%) Microservices
3 10 (27.78%) Unit Testing
4 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 8 (22.22%) SDLC
6 7 (19.44%) Community of Practice
6 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
6 7 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (16.67%) OO
8 5 (13.89%) DevOps
8 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
9 4 (11.11%) Human-Centred Design
9 4 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
9 4 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) Scala
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) Kotlin
4 7 (19.44%) C
5 6 (16.67%) Go
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
6 3 (8.33%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.56%) SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Groovy
8 1 (2.78%) Perl
8 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) ISEB
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 8 (22.22%) Zipkin
3 4 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Terraform
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Cadence
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) HP
4 1 (2.78%) Sybase