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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 32 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.27% 5.06% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 5.27% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 17
10th Percentile £293 £335 -
25th Percentile £338 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £472 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +3.17% -3.68%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £494
90th Percentile £674 £585 £535
Scotland median daily rate £440 £487 £475
% change year-on-year -9.65% +2.53% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £19.37 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.52% -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.37 £39.25
% change year-on-year - -50.66% -41.03%

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 685 607 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.71% 95.89% 84.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 321 430
10th Percentile £348 £240 £219
25th Percentile £409 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £555
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -0.81% -0.11% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 33
10th Percentile £17.86 - £13.30
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% +14.76% -9.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.45 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £19.99 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.28% +2.49% +21.95%

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 11 June 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) git-flow
5 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) Express.js
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) NestJS
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Redux
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) SDET
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (10.00%) API Testing
4 1 (10.00%) ATDD
4 1 (10.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) VBA
4 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian