Test Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 17 42
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 26 132 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.17% 10.52% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 11.07% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 106 79
10th Percentile - £405 £390
25th Percentile £363 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £504 £529 £575
90th Percentile £597 £574 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -0.84% +0.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £47.00
% change year-on-year -41.03% +41.62% +25.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 717 1,192 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.33% 94.98% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 847 1,228
10th Percentile £221 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £473
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 16
10th Percentile £13.48 £12.89 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.61 £19.94
Median hourly rate £22.59 £21.47 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -46.67% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £55.80 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
% change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

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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 2 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
1 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (23.08%) Serverless
3 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) 2G
1 1 (3.85%) 5G
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) GIS
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Selenium
2 7 (26.92%) WebDriver
3 6 (23.08%) GitLab
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) JIRA
4 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (11.54%) Git
6 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.69%) Subversion
6 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.85%) Appium
7 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.85%) JUnit
7 1 (3.85%) NUnit
7 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Automation Tester
1 6 (23.08%) Tester
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Pega Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) AWS CDK
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (7.69%) JSP
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) PostGIS
3 2 (7.69%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Equities
2 2 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 7 (26.92%) Migration
5 7 (26.92%) Test Scripting
6 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 4 (15.38%) Defect Management
7 4 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
7 4 (15.38%) Inclusive Design
7 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Project Management
7 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) SDLC
7 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) C#
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) Python
5 4 (15.38%) Bash
5 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) Groovy
6 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.69%) C++
7 2 (7.69%) VBA
7 2 (7.69%) VBScript
8 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) ISEB
1 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (7.69%) Kibana
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Pega
3 1 (3.85%) Confluent
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) StreamSets