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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 19 51 50
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.27% 8.16% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 8.87% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 38
10th Percentile £458 £375 £400
25th Percentile £478 £420 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £474
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -0.69% +5.39%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £505
90th Percentile £600 £538 £550
Scotland median daily rate £500 £464 £463
% change year-on-year +7.82% +0.27% -2.63%

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 530 575 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.22% 92.00% 90.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 308 501
10th Percentile £232 £229 £200
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 27 10
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.79 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.02 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £62.63 £25.86 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.14% +29.42% -0.61%

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 28 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 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) npm
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Modbus
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) GIS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 2 (10.53%) Subversion
4 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) HP UFT
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) Postman
5 1 (5.26%) Selenium
5 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SCADA Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) QA Officer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.26%) Jest
3 1 (5.26%) Next.js
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) Playwright
3 1 (5.26%) PostGIS
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
3 1 (5.26%) pytest
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 4 (21.05%) SCADA
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Derivative
4 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 5 (26.32%) Software Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Release Train
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
6 2 (10.53%) Test Management
6 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) ISEB
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Grafana
4 3 (15.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.53%) Siemens
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks