Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 26 48 61
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.26% 6.99% 6.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 7.99% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 43
10th Percentile £422 £375 £400
25th Percentile £467 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.96% +2.05%
75th Percentile £556 £503 £506
90th Percentile £599 £538 £548
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -3.55%

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 569 601 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.28% 87.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 301 532
10th Percentile £227 £200 £205
25th Percentile £408 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £546
90th Percentile £622 £638 £613
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.40% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.10 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.25 £23.00 £21.44
% change year-on-year -11.96% +7.30% +15.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) npm
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) Modbus
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) GIS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Cypress.io
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) Selenium
4 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.69%) Git
4 2 (7.69%) JUnit
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (7.69%) Snyk
4 2 (7.69%) Subversion
4 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
2 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
2 3 (11.54%) Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) SCADA Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Security Tester
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) React
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Next.js
2 2 (7.69%) Playwright
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) FHIR
3 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) XSD
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (15.38%) SCADA
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (23.08%) Microservices
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
6 5 (19.23%) Scrum
6 5 (19.23%) Software Delivery
6 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (15.38%) Work Breakdown Structure
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) CISA
2 1 (3.85%) CISM
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISEB
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) COBIT
2 1 (3.85%) DICOM
2 1 (3.85%) HL7
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 13485
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (26.92%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) Ansible
4 4 (15.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
1 2 (7.69%) Siemens
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Rapid7