Test Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 15 43
Rank change year-on-year -25 +28 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 31 141 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.80% 10.82% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 11.37% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 114 74
10th Percentile £363 £406 £365
25th Percentile £388 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £508 £530 £574
90th Percentile £567 £574 £612
Scotland median daily rate £478 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -1.55% +2.11% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £47.00
% change year-on-year -41.03% +41.62% +25.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 1,240 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.34% 95.17% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 884 1,254
10th Percentile £228 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon S3
2 10 (32.26%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (32.26%) Serverless
3 9 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.45%) IaaS
6 2 (6.45%) OCI
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) 2G
1 1 (3.23%) 5G
1 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) GIS
6 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) Cypress.io
2 8 (25.81%) Selenium
3 7 (22.58%) WebDriver
4 6 (19.35%) GitLab
4 6 (19.35%) JIRA
5 3 (9.68%) Git
6 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.45%) Subversion
6 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.23%) Appium
7 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.23%) JUnit
7 1 (3.23%) NUnit
7 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (54.84%) Public Sector
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 5 (16.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Automotive
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Automation Tester
2 6 (19.35%) Lead
2 6 (19.35%) Tester
3 4 (12.90%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Test Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Test Leader
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Pega Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) AWS CDK
2 7 (22.58%) CSS
2 7 (22.58%) HTML
2 7 (22.58%) React
3 5 (16.13%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) Spring
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.68%) Spring MVC
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Security
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (6.45%) JSON
5 2 (6.45%) JSP
5 2 (6.45%) Node.js
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.45%) PostGIS
5 2 (6.45%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (3.23%) Kafka
6 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.45%) Equities
2 2 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Agile
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
3 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (29.03%) Human-Centred Design
4 9 (29.03%) Inclusive Design
4 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (25.81%) Test Strategy
5 8 (25.81%) Unit Testing
6 7 (22.58%) Migration
6 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
6 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
7 6 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (19.35%) Microservices
7 6 (19.35%) Pair Programming
7 6 (19.35%) TDD
7 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (16.13%) Analytics
8 5 (16.13%) Kanban
9 4 (12.90%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (12.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
2 11 (35.48%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) Python
4 8 (25.81%) C#
5 7 (22.58%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.90%) Bash
6 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.68%) Groovy
8 2 (6.45%) C++
8 2 (6.45%) VBA
8 2 (6.45%) VBScript
9 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) ISEB
1 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.45%) PMO
4 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.45%) Kibana
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.23%) Confluent
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Informatica
3 1 (3.23%) StreamSets