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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 37 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 41 38 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.48% 4.66% 8.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 5.45% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 61
10th Percentile £400 £371 £400
25th Percentile £413 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -6.86%
75th Percentile £540 £528 £503
90th Percentile £600 £538 £538
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 - £66.56
% change year-on-year - - +64.35%

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 596 697 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.15% 85.42% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 365 622
10th Percentile £307 £223 £226
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

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
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 16 September 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 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 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) Serverless
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
5 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) GCP
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.88%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.88%) IaaS
8 2 (4.88%) npm
8 2 (4.88%) OCI
8 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.88%) PaaS
8 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) Modbus
1 2 (4.88%) VPN
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
3 2 (4.88%) GIS
3 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) DB2
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.07%) Cypress.io
2 7 (17.07%) JIRA
3 5 (12.20%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) Selenium
4 4 (9.76%) GitLab
4 4 (9.76%) Subversion
5 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.32%) Postman
5 3 (7.32%) Storybook
6 2 (4.88%) JUnit
6 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.88%) Snyk
6 2 (4.88%) SpecFlow
6 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.88%) webpack
7 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Games
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Developer
2 4 (9.76%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (9.76%) Test Manager
2 4 (9.76%) Tester
3 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
3 3 (7.32%) Lead
3 3 (7.32%) Senior
3 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) Technical Leader
4 2 (4.88%) Analyst
4 2 (4.88%) Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Automation Tester
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
4 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) React
2 5 (12.20%) Jest
3 4 (9.76%) .NET
3 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
3 4 (9.76%) CSS
3 4 (9.76%) RESTful
4 3 (7.32%) Playwright
4 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 2 (4.88%) Next.js
5 2 (4.88%) PySpark
5 2 (4.88%) Spring
5 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (4.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) PostGIS
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) SCADA
3 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
6 8 (19.51%) Microservices
6 8 (19.51%) Software Delivery
7 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (14.63%) TDD
8 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
9 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.20%) Scrum
9 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
9 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
10 4 (9.76%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) Java
2 6 (14.63%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) C#
4 4 (9.76%) C++
4 4 (9.76%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) VBA
5 2 (4.88%) VBScript
6 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) ISEB
2 2 (4.88%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.44%) CISA
3 1 (2.44%) CISM
3 1 (2.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) COBIT
3 1 (2.44%) DICOM
3 1 (2.44%) HL7
3 1 (2.44%) ISO 13485
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) Grafana
4 4 (9.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) IBM
2 2 (4.88%) Informatica
2 2 (4.88%) Siemens
2 2 (4.88%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco
3 1 (2.44%) Confluent
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk