Test Automation Contracts in Perthshire

Automated Testing
Scotland > Perthshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Perthshire 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 7 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Perthshire 9.52% 4.92% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 5.56% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £484 £454
25th Percentile £513 £515 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £471
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +20.59% -
75th Percentile £538 - £482
90th Percentile - - £488
Scotland median daily rate £475 £480 £491
% change year-on-year -0.94% -2.39% +15.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Perthshire

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 Perthshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 54 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 85.71% 88.52% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 38
10th Percentile £466 £447 £402
25th Percentile £500 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -
75th Percentile £700 £570 £584
90th Percentile £723 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
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 Perthshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Perthshire

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Perthshire

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Perthshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Infragistics
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle