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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 393 329 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.69% 7.62% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 8.06% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 126 116 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,239 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £59,375 £77,715 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,563 £89,450 £77,625
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 6,208 4,081 5,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.92% 94.53% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 2,047 2,906
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
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 8 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 8 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 -45 260 £57,500 +12.20% 18
Edinburgh -5 90 £52,500 -14.29% 22
Aberdeen +10 25 £38,500 -3.75% 1
Fife +1 13 £37,500 -43.40%
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 -
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
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 94 (23.92%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.09%) Confluence
3 15 (3.82%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (0.76%) WildFly
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.15%) AWS
2 36 (9.16%) Azure
3 27 (6.87%) BlazeMeter
4 20 (5.09%) SaaS
5 14 (3.56%) GCP
6 9 (2.29%) GitHub
7 6 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.27%) Serverless
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.02%) OCI
10 3 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.76%) Datadog
11 2 (0.51%) AWS CodeStar
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 68 (17.30%) Kerberos
2 13 (3.31%) DSL
3 2 (0.51%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (22.14%) NoSQL
2 81 (20.61%) Apache Hive
2 81 (20.61%) HBase
3 65 (16.54%) Metadata
4 51 (12.98%) Big Data
4 51 (12.98%) Hadoop
5 30 (7.63%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.31%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.31%) DB2
7 13 (3.31%) Tableau
8 12 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.78%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.02%) MySQL
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.25%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 184 (46.82%) Git
2 179 (45.55%) Jenkins
3 88 (22.39%) Bitbucket
4 81 (20.61%) Bitbucket Server
5 66 (16.79%) Artifactory
6 47 (11.96%) Cypress.io
7 38 (9.67%) JIRA
8 31 (7.89%) Cucumber
9 30 (7.63%) JMeter
10 23 (5.85%) Selenium
11 14 (3.56%) Maven
12 12 (3.05%) Visual Studio
13 10 (2.54%) Gradle
13 10 (2.54%) Jasmine
13 10 (2.54%) Karma Test Runner
13 10 (2.54%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.78%) Appium
15 6 (1.53%) MSTest
16 5 (1.27%) JUnit
17 4 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
General
1 256 (65.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 253 (64.38%) Finance
3 234 (59.54%) Law
4 133 (33.84%) Marketing
5 67 (17.05%) Legal
6 62 (15.78%) Social Skills
7 54 (13.74%) Banking
8 36 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (9.16%) Investment Banking
9 19 (4.83%) Games
10 14 (3.56%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.54%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.53%) Aviation
13 4 (1.02%) Electronics
13 4 (1.02%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.51%) Retail
15 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 234 (59.54%) Software Engineer
2 99 (25.19%) Lead
3 88 (22.39%) Lead Software Engineer
4 74 (18.83%) Developer
5 71 (18.07%) AWS Engineer
6 70 (17.81%) AWS Software Engineer
7 63 (16.03%) Senior
8 61 (15.52%) Java Engineer
9 57 (14.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 51 (12.98%) Database Developer
10 51 (12.98%) Database Engineer
10 51 (12.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 49 (12.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 44 (11.20%) QA Engineer
13 43 (10.94%) Data Engineer
14 37 (9.41%) AWS Database Engineer
14 37 (9.41%) AWS Developer
14 37 (9.41%) Full Stack Engineer
15 36 (9.16%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 33 (8.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.37%) RESTful
2 77 (19.59%) JSON
3 76 (19.34%) XML
4 72 (18.32%) Web Services
5 68 (17.30%) LDAP
5 68 (17.30%) OpenID
6 65 (16.54%) JSON-LD
6 65 (16.54%) SAML
7 53 (13.49%) React
8 48 (12.21%) Spring Boot
9 43 (10.94%) Spring
10 34 (8.65%) CSS
11 33 (8.40%) HTML
12 31 (7.89%) Kafka
13 28 (7.12%) .NET
14 21 (5.34%) AngularJS
15 19 (4.83%) Playwright
16 15 (3.82%) ASP.NET
16 15 (3.82%) JDBC
17 14 (3.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 93 (23.66%) Algorithms
2 80 (20.36%) Management Information System
3 68 (17.30%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (16.54%) Reference Data
5 52 (13.23%) Public Cloud
6 30 (7.63%) Cloud Native
7 27 (6.87%) Market Risk
8 22 (5.60%) Private Cloud
9 17 (4.33%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.05%) IoT
11 7 (1.78%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.76%) e-Learning
14 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
15 1 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.37%) Unix
2 7 (1.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (78.37%) Agile
2 264 (67.18%) Software Engineering
3 241 (61.32%) CI/CD
4 218 (55.47%) SDLC
5 204 (51.91%) Operational Stability
6 188 (47.84%) Community of Practice
7 134 (34.10%) Artificial Intelligence
8 133 (33.84%) TDD
9 131 (33.33%) Machine Learning
10 118 (30.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (25.19%) Visualisation
12 98 (24.94%) Microservices
13 96 (24.43%) Risk Management
14 93 (23.66%) Software Testing
15 91 (23.16%) Open Source
16 90 (22.90%) Continuous Delivery
17 87 (22.14%) Architectural Design
18 86 (21.88%) Information Architecture
19 81 (20.61%) Batch Processing
19 81 (20.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 168 (42.75%) Java
2 157 (39.95%) SQL
3 153 (38.93%) Python
4 101 (25.70%) PL/SQL
5 84 (21.37%) JavaScript
6 77 (19.59%) Go
7 65 (16.54%) Prolog
7 65 (16.54%) SPARQL
8 45 (11.45%) C#
9 26 (6.62%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.31%) Scala
11 12 (3.05%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.27%) C
13 3 (0.76%) Bash
13 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) C++
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (4.58%) Degree
2 8 (2.04%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.78%) ISTQB
3 7 (1.78%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.02%) ISEB
6 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (24.43%) QA
2 16 (4.07%) ISO 9001
3 13 (3.31%) SLA
4 12 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.54%) WAI
6 4 (1.02%) DICOM
6 4 (1.02%) HL7
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 13485
6 4 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 81 (20.61%) HDFS
2 68 (17.30%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 99 (25.19%) Terraform
2 31 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.27%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 94 (23.92%) Databricks
2 81 (20.61%) Informatica
3 51 (12.98%) Cloudera
4 25 (6.36%) Oracle
5 13 (3.31%) Alteryx
5 13 (3.31%) Cognos
5 13 (3.31%) Sybase
6 9 (2.29%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.29%) TOWER Software
7 7 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.53%) Google
8 6 (1.53%) Splunk
9 3 (0.76%) Cadence
10 2 (0.51%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Coverity
11 1 (0.25%) CyberTech
11 1 (0.25%) Klocwork
11 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.25%) Thales