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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 418 378 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.23% 8.23% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.76% 8.72% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 127 147 307
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,416
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,500
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 £77,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,460 £89,427 £78,000
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 6,183 4,333 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 94.34% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,156 2,833
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -43 284 £57,500 - 17
Edinburgh -9 91 £52,500 -17.65% 24
Aberdeen +7 25 £38,500 -3.75%
Fife +6 13 £37,500 -43.40% 1
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 - 1
Dundee - 1 £50,000 - 2
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
1 104 (24.88%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.78%) Confluence
3 15 (3.59%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 167 (39.95%) AWS
2 39 (9.33%) Azure
3 27 (6.46%) BlazeMeter
3 27 (6.46%) SaaS
4 20 (4.78%) GCP
5 12 (2.87%) GitHub
6 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.20%) Serverless
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.96%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.72%) Datadog
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.48%) OCI
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.27%) Kerberos
2 18 (4.31%) DSL
3 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (21.77%) NoSQL
2 86 (20.57%) Apache Hive
2 86 (20.57%) HBase
3 65 (15.55%) Metadata
4 61 (14.59%) Big Data
5 56 (13.40%) Hadoop
6 34 (8.13%) MongoDB
7 18 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.31%) DB2
7 18 (4.31%) Tableau
8 17 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (4.07%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.67%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.96%) MySQL
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.24%) InfluxDB
14 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 193 (46.17%) Git
2 192 (45.93%) Jenkins
3 88 (21.05%) Bitbucket
4 86 (20.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 66 (15.79%) Artifactory
6 47 (11.24%) Cypress.io
7 35 (8.37%) JIRA
8 29 (6.94%) JMeter
9 28 (6.70%) Cucumber
10 21 (5.02%) Selenium
11 18 (4.31%) Maven
12 16 (3.83%) Jasmine
13 15 (3.59%) Karma Test Runner
13 15 (3.59%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (2.87%) Visual Studio
15 9 (2.15%) Gradle
16 6 (1.44%) Appium
16 6 (1.44%) MSTest
17 5 (1.20%) JUnit
18 4 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 281 (67.22%) Finance
1 281 (67.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 259 (61.96%) Law
3 148 (35.41%) Marketing
4 72 (17.22%) Banking
5 67 (16.03%) Legal
6 64 (15.31%) Social Skills
7 46 (11.00%) Investment Banking
8 41 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (4.55%) Games
10 18 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 15 (3.59%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.44%) Aviation
13 4 (0.96%) Electronics
13 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Retail
15 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 257 (61.48%) Software Engineer
2 104 (24.88%) Lead
3 93 (22.25%) Lead Software Engineer
4 84 (20.10%) Developer
5 71 (16.99%) AWS Engineer
6 70 (16.75%) AWS Software Engineer
7 68 (16.27%) Senior
8 66 (15.79%) Java Engineer
9 64 (15.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (13.40%) Database Developer
10 56 (13.40%) Database Engineer
10 56 (13.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 54 (12.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 48 (11.48%) Data Engineer
13 41 (9.81%) QA Engineer
14 37 (8.85%) AWS Database Engineer
14 37 (8.85%) AWS Developer
14 37 (8.85%) Full Stack Engineer
15 36 (8.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 30 (7.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (22.01%) RESTful
2 82 (19.62%) JSON
3 78 (18.66%) XML
4 74 (17.70%) Web Services
5 68 (16.27%) LDAP
5 68 (16.27%) OpenID
6 65 (15.55%) JSON-LD
6 65 (15.55%) SAML
7 55 (13.16%) Spring Boot
8 54 (12.92%) React
9 45 (10.77%) Spring
10 41 (9.81%) Kafka
11 39 (9.33%) CSS
12 38 (9.09%) HTML
13 32 (7.66%) .NET
14 23 (5.50%) AngularJS
15 20 (4.78%) ASP.NET
16 19 (4.55%) OpenAPI
16 19 (4.55%) Playwright
17 17 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 103 (24.64%) Algorithms
2 90 (21.53%) Management Information System
3 68 (16.27%) Enterprise Cloud
4 67 (16.03%) Public Cloud
5 65 (15.55%) Reference Data
6 43 (10.29%) Cloud Native
7 29 (6.94%) Private Cloud
8 27 (6.46%) Market Risk
9 21 (5.02%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.87%) IoT
11 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.72%) e-Learning
15 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (21.29%) Unix
2 11 (2.63%) Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (80.38%) Agile
2 292 (69.86%) Software Engineering
3 258 (61.72%) CI/CD
4 240 (57.42%) SDLC
5 224 (53.59%) Operational Stability
6 208 (49.76%) Community of Practice
7 154 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 151 (36.12%) Machine Learning
9 147 (35.17%) TDD
10 128 (30.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (26.08%) Visualisation
12 108 (25.84%) Microservices
13 101 (24.16%) Risk Management
14 97 (23.21%) Architectural Design
15 96 (22.97%) Information Architecture
16 95 (22.73%) Open Source
17 93 (22.25%) Continuous Delivery
18 91 (21.77%) Software Testing
19 86 (20.57%) Batch Processing
19 86 (20.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 189 (45.22%) Java
2 170 (40.67%) SQL
3 165 (39.47%) Python
4 111 (26.56%) PL/SQL
5 86 (20.57%) JavaScript
6 82 (19.62%) Go
7 65 (15.55%) Prolog
7 65 (15.55%) SPARQL
8 48 (11.48%) C#
9 31 (7.42%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.31%) Scala
11 17 (4.07%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.20%) C
13 3 (0.72%) Bash
13 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.24%) C++
15 1 (0.24%) Groovy
15 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (4.78%) Degree
2 7 (1.67%) ISTQB
3 6 (1.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.96%) ISEB
6 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (22.01%) QA
2 18 (4.31%) SLA
3 16 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.83%) ISO 9001
4 15 (3.59%) WAI
5 4 (0.96%) DICOM
5 4 (0.96%) HL7
5 4 (0.96%) ISO 13485
5 4 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 86 (20.57%) HDFS
2 68 (16.27%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 107 (25.60%) Terraform
2 39 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.96%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 104 (24.88%) Databricks
2 86 (20.57%) Informatica
3 56 (13.40%) Cloudera
4 30 (7.18%) Oracle
5 18 (4.31%) Alteryx
5 18 (4.31%) Cognos
5 18 (4.31%) Sybase
6 9 (2.15%) Google
6 9 (2.15%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.91%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.44%) Splunk
10 5 (1.20%) Dell
11 4 (0.96%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Cadence
13 1 (0.24%) Coverity
13 1 (0.24%) Klocwork
13 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.24%) Thales