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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 21 39 45
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.11% 6.35% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 6.70% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 23
10th Percentile - £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £415 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £491 £542 £523
90th Percentile £500 £600 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.67% -1.32%

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 575 582 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.06% 94.79% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 288 372
10th Percentile £238 £300 £213
25th Percentile £386 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +7.50% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £600 £611
Scotland median daily rate £469 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -0.27% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 23
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £15.92 £17.44 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -48.24%
75th Percentile £24.15 £44.35 £24.18
90th Percentile £76.10 £64.63 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.55 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -17.13% +1.94% +6.90%

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 October 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP HR
1 2 (9.52%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Anthropic Claude
2 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (9.52%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.52%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Payroll Manager
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Manager
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Test Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
3 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Verification Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) React
1 5 (23.81%) REST
1 5 (23.81%) Spring
1 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Next.js
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
3 3 (14.29%) OAuth
3 3 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 3 (14.29%) Playwright
3 3 (14.29%) Spring Security
4 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (9.52%) Spring MVC
4 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) Vue
5 1 (4.76%) Flask
5 1 (4.76%) pytest
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 12 (57.14%) Coaching
3 12 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (52.38%) Mentoring
4 11 (52.38%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (47.62%) Observability
6 9 (42.86%) Technical Debt
7 8 (38.10%) AI
7 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
7 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
8 7 (33.33%) MLOps
8 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (28.57%) Community of Practice
9 6 (28.57%) DevOps
9 6 (28.57%) LLM
9 6 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (23.81%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle