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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 24 53 53
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.01% 8.04% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 8.97% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 39
10th Percentile £427 £375 £400
25th Percentile £469 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.09%
75th Percentile £546 £495 £506
90th Percentile £598 £538 £550
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%

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 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

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 9 December 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Modbus
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) GIS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Cypress.io
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
2 2 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) HP UFT
3 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Snyk
3 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SCADA Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Tester
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) React
1 3 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.33%) Next.js
2 2 (8.33%) Playwright
2 2 (8.33%) Spring
2 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) FHIR
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) pytest
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) SCADA
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) TDD
6 4 (16.67%) Work Breakdown Structure
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Release Train
7 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.33%) C++
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CISA
2 1 (4.17%) CISM
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ISEB
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) COBIT
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) DICOM
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 13485
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.83%) Grafana
4 4 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.33%) Siemens
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
22 Test Automation jobs in Edinburgh