Test Automation Jobs in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 405 332 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.92% 7.63% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 8.09% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 126 117 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,241 £36,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,715 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £89,445 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Test Automation 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 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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 -43 274 £57,500 +12.20% 16
Edinburgh -5 89 £52,500 -17.65% 21
Aberdeen +9 25 £38,500 -3.75%
Fife +3 13 £37,500 -43.40%
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 - 1
Dundee - 1 £50,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 -
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
1 100 (24.69%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.94%) Confluence
3 15 (3.70%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.25%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 159 (39.26%) AWS
2 38 (9.38%) Azure
3 27 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
4 20 (4.94%) SaaS
5 18 (4.44%) GCP
6 10 (2.47%) GitHub
7 6 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.23%) Serverless
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (0.99%) OCI
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.74%) Datadog
11 2 (0.49%) AWS CodeStar
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.49%) IBM Cloud
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.79%) Kerberos
2 16 (3.95%) DSL
3 2 (0.49%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (21.98%) NoSQL
2 84 (20.74%) Apache Hive
2 84 (20.74%) HBase
3 65 (16.05%) Metadata
4 57 (14.07%) Big Data
5 54 (13.33%) Hadoop
6 32 (7.90%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (3.95%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.95%) DB2
8 16 (3.95%) Tableau
9 14 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.73%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.99%) MySQL
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.25%) InfluxDB
15 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 188 (46.42%) Git
2 187 (46.17%) Jenkins
3 88 (21.73%) Bitbucket
4 84 (20.74%) Bitbucket Server
5 66 (16.30%) Artifactory
6 47 (11.60%) Cypress.io
7 37 (9.14%) JIRA
8 30 (7.41%) JMeter
9 29 (7.16%) Cucumber
10 21 (5.19%) Selenium
11 16 (3.95%) Maven
12 13 (3.21%) Jasmine
12 13 (3.21%) Karma Test Runner
12 13 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (2.96%) Visual Studio
14 10 (2.47%) Gradle
15 6 (1.48%) Appium
15 6 (1.48%) MSTest
16 5 (1.23%) JUnit
17 4 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
General
1 270 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 269 (66.42%) Finance
3 249 (61.48%) Law
4 142 (35.06%) Marketing
5 67 (16.54%) Legal
6 64 (15.80%) Banking
7 63 (15.56%) Social Skills
8 42 (10.37%) Investment Banking
9 39 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (4.69%) Games
11 17 (4.20%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.21%) Private Banking
13 6 (1.48%) Aviation
14 4 (0.99%) Electronics
14 4 (0.99%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.49%) Retail
16 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 244 (60.25%) Software Engineer
2 102 (25.19%) Lead
3 91 (22.47%) Lead Software Engineer
4 79 (19.51%) Developer
5 71 (17.53%) AWS Engineer
6 70 (17.28%) AWS Software Engineer
7 64 (15.80%) Java Engineer
8 62 (15.31%) Senior
9 61 (15.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 54 (13.33%) Database Developer
10 54 (13.33%) Database Engineer
10 54 (13.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 49 (12.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 46 (11.36%) Data Engineer
13 43 (10.62%) QA Engineer
14 37 (9.14%) AWS Database Engineer
14 37 (9.14%) AWS Developer
14 37 (9.14%) Full Stack Engineer
15 36 (8.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 30 (7.41%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (21.73%) RESTful
2 79 (19.51%) JSON
3 77 (19.01%) XML
4 73 (18.02%) Web Services
5 68 (16.79%) LDAP
5 68 (16.79%) OpenID
6 65 (16.05%) JSON-LD
6 65 (16.05%) SAML
7 53 (13.09%) React
8 51 (12.59%) Spring Boot
9 43 (10.62%) Spring
10 37 (9.14%) CSS
11 36 (8.89%) HTML
11 36 (8.89%) Kafka
12 30 (7.41%) .NET
13 22 (5.43%) AngularJS
14 19 (4.69%) Playwright
15 18 (4.44%) ASP.NET
16 17 (4.20%) OpenAPI
17 15 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 99 (24.44%) Algorithms
2 86 (21.23%) Management Information System
3 68 (16.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (16.05%) Reference Data
5 61 (15.06%) Public Cloud
6 36 (8.89%) Cloud Native
7 27 (6.67%) Market Risk
8 26 (6.42%) Private Cloud
9 20 (4.94%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.96%) IoT
11 7 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.74%) e-Learning
15 1 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (21.48%) Unix
2 6 (1.48%) Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (79.26%) Agile
2 277 (68.40%) Software Engineering
3 253 (62.47%) CI/CD
4 231 (57.04%) SDLC
5 216 (53.33%) Operational Stability
6 200 (49.38%) Community of Practice
7 146 (36.05%) Artificial Intelligence
8 143 (35.31%) Machine Learning
9 137 (33.83%) TDD
10 125 (30.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (25.93%) Visualisation
12 103 (25.43%) Microservices
13 99 (24.44%) Risk Management
14 93 (22.96%) Architectural Design
14 93 (22.96%) Continuous Delivery
14 93 (22.96%) Open Source
14 93 (22.96%) Software Testing
15 92 (22.72%) Information Architecture
16 84 (20.74%) Batch Processing
16 84 (20.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 179 (44.20%) Java
2 164 (40.49%) SQL
3 161 (39.75%) Python
4 107 (26.42%) PL/SQL
5 86 (21.23%) JavaScript
6 80 (19.75%) Go
7 65 (16.05%) Prolog
7 65 (16.05%) SPARQL
8 47 (11.60%) C#
9 29 (7.16%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.95%) Scala
11 15 (3.70%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.23%) C
13 3 (0.74%) Bash
13 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) C++
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (4.44%) Degree
2 8 (1.98%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.73%) ISTQB
3 7 (1.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.99%) ISEB
6 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.21%) QA
2 16 (3.95%) ISO 9001
2 16 (3.95%) SLA
3 15 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.21%) WAI
5 4 (0.99%) DICOM
5 4 (0.99%) HL7
5 4 (0.99%) ISO 13485
5 4 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 84 (20.74%) HDFS
2 68 (16.79%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 105 (25.93%) Terraform
2 36 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.23%) Ansible
3 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 100 (24.69%) Databricks
2 84 (20.74%) Informatica
3 54 (13.33%) Cloudera
4 28 (6.91%) Oracle
5 16 (3.95%) Alteryx
5 16 (3.95%) Cognos
5 16 (3.95%) Sybase
6 9 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.22%) TOWER Software
7 7 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.73%) Google
8 6 (1.48%) Splunk
9 3 (0.74%) Cadence
10 2 (0.49%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.49%) IBM
10 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Coverity
11 1 (0.25%) Klocwork
11 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.25%) Thales