Test Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 41 15
Rank change year-on-year +11 -26 +28
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 38 31 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.08% 3.80% 10.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 4.31% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 114
10th Percentile £317 £363 £406
25th Percentile £400 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% - -
75th Percentile £538 £508 £530
90th Percentile £552 £567 £574
Scotland median daily rate £448 £478 £485
% change year-on-year -6.28% -1.55% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £39.25 £66.56
% change year-on-year -50.66% -41.03% +41.62%

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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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 1 May 2025.

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

Test Automation
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 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 13 (34.21%) Serverless
3 11 (28.95%) Amazon S3
3 11 (28.95%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (18.42%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (15.79%) Azure
6 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
6 6 (15.79%) PaaS
6 6 (15.79%) SaaS
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (7.89%) IaaS
8 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.89%) Apache Hive
4 3 (7.89%) GIS
4 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.63%) Big Data
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) DB2
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) GitLab
2 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.05%) Selenium
4 7 (18.42%) Git
5 5 (13.16%) JIRA
5 5 (13.16%) TeamCity
6 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (10.53%) Postman
7 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
7 3 (7.89%) Storybook
7 3 (7.89%) Subversion
7 3 (7.89%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.26%) JUnit
9 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.63%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.63%) JMeter
9 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.63%) MSTest
9 1 (2.63%) NUnit
9 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
3 11 (28.95%) Banking
3 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Tester
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Automation Tester
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.26%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) AWS CDK
2 6 (15.79%) React
3 5 (13.16%) .NET
3 5 (13.16%) PostGIS
3 5 (13.16%) REST
4 3 (7.89%) Jest
4 3 (7.89%) Playwright
5 2 (5.26%) CSS
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
5 2 (5.26%) PySpark
5 2 (5.26%) RESTful
5 2 (5.26%) Spring
5 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.63%) JSON
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.63%) SOAP
6 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.63%) XML
6 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Client/Server
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 18 (47.37%) Agile
3 15 (39.47%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Kanban
4 10 (26.32%) Migration
5 7 (18.42%) Scrum
5 7 (18.42%) TDD
6 6 (15.79%) Software Delivery
6 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.53%) Data Integration
8 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (10.53%) Inclusive Design
8 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 11 (28.95%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) Java
4 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) C#
6 4 (10.53%) Bash
6 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) C++
7 3 (7.89%) Groovy
7 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.89%) VBA
7 3 (7.89%) VBScript
8 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) ISEB
1 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
1 3 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Grafana
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Splunk
2 3 (7.89%) IBM
2 3 (7.89%) Informatica
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) StreamSets
3 2 (5.26%) Confluent
3 2 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) Avaloq