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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 41
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 -19
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 11 41 32
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.44% 6.27% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 6.65% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 19
10th Percentile £313 £400 £363
25th Percentile £385 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £497 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +16.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £505
90th Percentile £619 £600 £538
Scotland median daily rate £440 £498 £469
% change year-on-year -11.65% +6.24% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.37 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.37 -

All Process & 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 650 617 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.97% 94.34% 84.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 311 389
10th Percentile £337 £306 £209
25th Percentile £406 £413 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £603 £599 £639
Scotland median daily rate £451 £467 £450
% change year-on-year -3.53% +3.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 21
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.15 £13.21
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £15.10
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.80% -0.72% -65.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.09 £24.18
90th Percentile £82.20 £62.00 £38.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.09% +2.14%

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 10 August 2026.

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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Developer in Test
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
1 3 (27.27%) React
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Security
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 2 (18.18%) Next.js
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Case Management
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (18.18%) SDET
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian