Test Automation Jobs in Scotland

Automated Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 380 324 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.56% 7.57% 8.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 7.99% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 127 112 307
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,416
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,688 £42,250
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 £77,554 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £88,890 £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 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 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 12 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 -44 245 £57,500 +9.52% 20
Edinburgh -6 91 £52,500 -12.50% 25
Aberdeen +8 26 £38,500 -12.00% 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 89 (23.42%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.26%) Confluence
3 15 (3.95%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (0.79%) WildFly
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 134 (35.26%) AWS
2 31 (8.16%) Azure
3 27 (7.11%) BlazeMeter
4 19 (5.00%) SaaS
5 9 (2.37%) GCP
6 8 (2.11%) GitHub
7 6 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.32%) Serverless
9 4 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.05%) OCI
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.79%) Datadog
11 2 (0.53%) AWS CodeStar
11 2 (0.53%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 68 (17.89%) Kerberos
2 10 (2.63%) DSL
3 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.37%) NoSQL
2 79 (20.79%) Apache Hive
2 79 (20.79%) HBase
3 65 (17.11%) Metadata
4 49 (12.89%) Hadoop
5 46 (12.11%) Big Data
6 27 (7.11%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.63%) DB2
8 10 (2.63%) Tableau
9 9 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.84%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.05%) MySQL
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
15 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 178 (46.84%) Git
2 174 (45.79%) Jenkins
3 88 (23.16%) Bitbucket
4 79 (20.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 66 (17.37%) Artifactory
6 47 (12.37%) Cypress.io
7 39 (10.26%) JIRA
8 31 (8.16%) Cucumber
9 30 (7.89%) JMeter
10 22 (5.79%) Selenium
11 14 (3.68%) Maven
12 12 (3.16%) Visual Studio
13 10 (2.63%) Gradle
14 7 (1.84%) Appium
15 6 (1.58%) Jasmine
15 6 (1.58%) Karma Test Runner
15 6 (1.58%) MSTest
15 6 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (1.32%) JUnit
16 5 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 242 (63.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 237 (62.37%) Finance
3 219 (57.63%) Law
4 126 (33.16%) Marketing
5 67 (17.63%) Legal
6 62 (16.32%) Social Skills
7 42 (11.05%) Banking
8 34 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
9 29 (7.63%) Investment Banking
10 19 (5.00%) Games
11 11 (2.89%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.58%) Aviation
12 6 (1.58%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.05%) Electronics
13 4 (1.05%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.53%) Retail
15 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 225 (59.21%) Software Engineer
2 95 (25.00%) Lead
3 84 (22.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 71 (18.68%) AWS Engineer
5 70 (18.42%) AWS Software Engineer
6 69 (18.16%) Developer
7 63 (16.58%) Senior
8 56 (14.74%) Java Engineer
9 52 (13.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 49 (12.89%) Database Developer
10 49 (12.89%) Database Engineer
10 49 (12.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 49 (12.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (11.58%) QA Engineer
12 40 (10.53%) Data Engineer
13 37 (9.74%) AWS Database Engineer
13 37 (9.74%) AWS Developer
13 37 (9.74%) Full Stack Engineer
14 36 (9.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 34 (8.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (20.79%) RESTful
2 76 (20.00%) JSON
2 76 (20.00%) XML
3 71 (18.68%) Web Services
4 68 (17.89%) LDAP
4 68 (17.89%) OpenID
5 65 (17.11%) JSON-LD
5 65 (17.11%) SAML
6 53 (13.95%) React
7 43 (11.32%) Spring Boot
8 42 (11.05%) Spring
9 30 (7.89%) CSS
10 29 (7.63%) HTML
11 27 (7.11%) Kafka
12 25 (6.58%) .NET
13 19 (5.00%) Playwright
14 17 (4.47%) AngularJS
15 15 (3.95%) JDBC
16 11 (2.89%) ASP.NET
17 10 (2.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (23.42%) Algorithms
2 75 (19.74%) Management Information System
3 68 (17.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (17.11%) Reference Data
5 43 (11.32%) Public Cloud
6 27 (7.11%) Market Risk
7 23 (6.05%) Cloud Native
8 18 (4.74%) Private Cloud
9 14 (3.68%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.16%) IoT
11 7 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.79%) e-Learning
14 1 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 1 (0.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 82 (21.58%) Unix
2 7 (1.84%) Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (77.11%) Agile
2 253 (66.58%) Software Engineering
3 232 (61.05%) CI/CD
4 206 (54.21%) SDLC
5 193 (50.79%) Operational Stability
6 177 (46.58%) Community of Practice
7 131 (34.47%) TDD
8 123 (32.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 120 (31.58%) Machine Learning
10 114 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (25.00%) Microservices
11 95 (25.00%) Risk Management
11 95 (25.00%) Software Testing
11 95 (25.00%) Visualisation
12 89 (23.42%) Open Source
13 87 (22.89%) Continuous Delivery
14 80 (21.05%) Architectural Design
15 79 (20.79%) Batch Processing
15 79 (20.79%) Information Architecture
16 78 (20.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 157 (41.32%) Java
2 152 (40.00%) SQL
3 147 (38.68%) Python
4 96 (25.26%) PL/SQL
5 81 (21.32%) JavaScript
6 75 (19.74%) Go
7 65 (17.11%) Prolog
7 65 (17.11%) SPARQL
8 42 (11.05%) C#
9 23 (6.05%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.63%) Scala
11 8 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.32%) C
13 3 (0.79%) Bash
13 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (4.74%) Degree
2 8 (2.11%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.84%) ISTQB
3 7 (1.84%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.05%) ISEB
6 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (25.53%) QA
2 16 (4.21%) ISO 9001
3 10 (2.63%) SLA
4 8 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.58%) WAI
6 4 (1.05%) DICOM
6 4 (1.05%) HL7
6 4 (1.05%) ISO 13485
6 4 (1.05%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 79 (20.79%) HDFS
2 68 (17.89%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 95 (25.00%) Terraform
2 28 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.32%) Ansible
3 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 89 (23.42%) Databricks
2 79 (20.79%) Informatica
3 49 (12.89%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.05%) Oracle
5 10 (2.63%) Alteryx
5 10 (2.63%) Cognos
5 10 (2.63%) Sybase
6 9 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.37%) TOWER Software
7 7 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.58%) Splunk
9 5 (1.32%) Google
10 3 (0.79%) Cadence
11 2 (0.53%) Black Duck
11 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) Coverity
12 1 (0.26%) CyberTech
12 1 (0.26%) Klocwork
12 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.26%) Thales