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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 20 50 48
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.31% 8.28% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 8.87% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 35
10th Percentile £458 £373 £400
25th Percentile £478 £416 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% +5.32%
75th Percentile £575 £504 £522
90th Percentile £600 £538 £550
Scotland median daily rate £500 £471 £466
% change year-on-year +6.16% +1.02% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £26.00

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 542 564 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.74% 93.38% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 307 487
10th Percentile £215 £200 £219
25th Percentile £409 £396 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 22
10th Percentile £17.42 £20.30 £13.55
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £23.59 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% -22.66% +43.46%
75th Percentile £64.69 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +12.54%

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 January 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) npm
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Modbus
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) GIS
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.00%) Subversion
5 2 (10.00%) Git
5 2 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (10.00%) Selenium
5 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
6 1 (5.00%) JUnit
6 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (5.00%) Maven
6 1 (5.00%) Postman
6 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) Jest
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) pytest
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) SCADA
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Derivative
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 5 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Release Train
5 3 (15.00%) SOA
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Register
6 2 (10.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) VBA
5 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (15.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) Siemens
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks