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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 48 36 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.30% 4.69% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 5.17% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 33
10th Percentile £352 £363 £413
25th Percentile £411 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +1.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £638
90th Percentile £564 £525 £738
Scotland median daily rate £480 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.05% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% +41.62%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £39.25 £66.56
% change year-on-year -50.66% -41.03% +52.14%

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 703 696 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.26% 90.63% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 467 568
10th Percentile £300 £266 £350
25th Percentile £373 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £581
90th Percentile £601 £620 £676
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 37
10th Percentile £16.49 £11.68 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +187.30% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £18.93
90th Percentile £59.00 £72.50 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £15.99
% change year-on-year -2.98% +28.92% -57.28%

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 27 June 2025.

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 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) GitHub
5 6 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.42%) SaaS
7 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.25%) Serverless
7 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.17%) PaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.08%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 9 (18.75%) DB2
3 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.25%) CockroachDB
5 3 (6.25%) MariaDB
5 3 (6.25%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.08%) NewSQL
7 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.08%) OLTP
7 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (27.08%) JUnit
2 7 (14.58%) Git
2 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.50%) Xcode
4 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket
4 5 (10.42%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) Mockito
5 4 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 4 (8.33%) PyCharm
5 4 (8.33%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (6.25%) GitLab
6 3 (6.25%) Maven
6 3 (6.25%) Selenium
7 2 (4.17%) Gradle
8 1 (2.08%) Gatling
8 1 (2.08%) TestComplete
8 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (47.92%) Finance
2 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 14 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Banking
5 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.33%) Front Office
6 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Java Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) Spring
2 10 (20.83%) Kafka
3 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
4 6 (12.50%) SwiftUI
4 6 (12.50%) UIKit
5 4 (8.33%) JMS
6 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.25%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.25%) pytest
6 3 (6.25%) React
6 3 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (4.17%) CSS
7 2 (4.17%) Django
7 2 (4.17%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.17%) J2EE
8 1 (2.08%) Ext JS
8 1 (2.08%) OAuth
8 1 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Virtual Team
2 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 6 (12.50%) iPad
3 6 (12.50%) iPhone
3 6 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 4 (8.33%) Equities
4 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.08%) Derivative
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 19 (39.58%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Windows
3 6 (12.50%) Android
3 6 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Agile
2 27 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 22 (45.83%) DevOps
4 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (29.17%) SDLC
5 14 (29.17%) TDD
6 12 (25.00%) Build Automation
7 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 9 (18.75%) BDD
9 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 8 (16.67%) Scrum
11 7 (14.58%) Design Patterns
11 7 (14.58%) Microservices
11 7 (14.58%) User Experience
12 6 (12.50%) Customer Experience
12 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (12.50%) iOS Development
12 6 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 17 (35.42%) SQL
3 16 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (12.50%) Objective-C
4 6 (12.50%) Swift
5 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.17%) Go
7 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.08%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.08%) ISEB
2 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Podman
4 2 (4.17%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) Sybase
4 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
5 4 (8.33%) Splunk
6 3 (6.25%) IBM
6 3 (6.25%) Netskope
6 3 (6.25%) Proofpoint
6 3 (6.25%) Symantec
7 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.08%) Genesys
7 1 (2.08%) Teradata
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