Test Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 49 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 35 29 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.36% 3.32% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 3.93% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 73
10th Percentile £363 - £390
25th Percentile £400 £363 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £441 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -7.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £546 £506 £525
90th Percentile £570 £544 £549
Scotland median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 738 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.25% 84.54% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 417 765
10th Percentile £223 £213 £247
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.42% -1.04%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £601
Scotland median daily rate £464 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 6
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £61.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £15.25
% change year-on-year +2.09% +28.50% -59.27%

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 3 July 2025.

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 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.71%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Serverless
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) GitHub
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.71%) IaaS
8 2 (5.71%) OCI
8 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.71%) PaaS
8 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 2 (5.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) GIS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) DB2
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.00%) Selenium
3 6 (17.14%) Cypress.io
3 6 (17.14%) GitLab
4 5 (14.29%) Git
5 4 (11.43%) Postman
5 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
6 3 (8.57%) JIRA
6 3 (8.57%) JUnit
6 3 (8.57%) Storybook
7 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.71%) Snyk
7 2 (5.71%) SpecFlow
7 2 (5.71%) Subversion
7 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.86%) MSTest
8 1 (2.86%) Ranorex
8 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Games
4 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Tester
3 4 (11.43%) Test Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Automation Tester
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) AWS CDK
1 6 (17.14%) React
2 5 (14.29%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) CSS
3 4 (11.43%) Jest
3 4 (11.43%) Playwright
4 3 (8.57%) PostGIS
4 3 (8.57%) RESTful
4 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) PySpark
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (5.71%) YAML
6 1 (2.86%) FHIR
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
6 1 (2.86%) Next.js
6 1 (2.86%) React Native
6 1 (2.86%) Vitest
6 1 (2.86%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (54.29%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.43%) Coaching
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Kanban
8 4 (11.43%) SDLC
8 4 (11.43%) Software Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Java
2 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.29%) C#
4 5 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) C++
5 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) VBA
5 2 (5.71%) VBScript
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) ISEB
1 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
1 2 (5.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.86%) CISA
2 1 (2.86%) CISM
2 1 (2.86%) CISSP
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) COBIT
4 1 (2.86%) DICOM
4 1 (2.86%) HL7
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 13485
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.86%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) IBM
3 2 (5.71%) Informatica
3 2 (5.71%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce