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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 33 49 59
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.36% 6.16% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 7.15% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 40
10th Percentile £415 £373 £398
25th Percentile £464 £390 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.11% -0.16%
75th Percentile £560 £506 £502
90th Percentile £600 £538 £538
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £474
% change year-on-year +5.26% +0.32% -0.32%

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 583 685 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.64% 86.06% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 364 553
10th Percentile £287 £215 £209
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.24 £12.56
25th Percentile - £15.75 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% -48.13% +125.76%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £51.92 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.93
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.16% +0.56%

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 17 October 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 6 (18.18%) Serverless
4 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) npm
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.03%) OCI
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) Modbus
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) GIS
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 5 (15.15%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 3 (9.09%) Storybook
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Postman
5 2 (6.06%) Snyk
5 2 (6.06%) Subversion
5 2 (6.06%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (6.06%) webpack
6 1 (3.03%) Appium
6 1 (3.03%) HP UFT
6 1 (3.03%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
6 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 3 (9.09%) Test Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) React
2 5 (15.15%) Jest
3 4 (12.12%) AWS CDK
3 4 (12.12%) CSS
4 3 (9.09%) Playwright
4 3 (9.09%) RESTful
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) HTML
5 2 (6.06%) Next.js
5 2 (6.06%) Spring
5 2 (6.06%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (6.06%) Web Services
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (3.03%) React Native
6 1 (3.03%) SOAP
6 1 (3.03%) WireMock
6 1 (3.03%) XML
6 1 (3.03%) XSD
6 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) SCADA
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 19 (57.58%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) DevOps
4 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (24.24%) Microservices
7 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 6 (18.18%) Software Delivery
8 6 (18.18%) Unit Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 5 (15.15%) Scrum
9 5 (15.15%) Software Testing
10 4 (12.12%) Coaching
10 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
10 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (12.12%) Test Management
10 4 (12.12%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) CISA
2 1 (3.03%) CISM
2 1 (3.03%) CISSP
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ISEB
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) COBIT
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) DICOM
2 1 (3.03%) HL7
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 13485
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.06%) Siemens
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce