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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 19 40 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.68% 6.31% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 6.66% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 18
10th Percentile - £400 £371
25th Percentile £450 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £494 £540 £528
90th Percentile £500 £600 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.37 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.37 -

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 598 601 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.34% 94.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 298 370
10th Percentile £250 £304 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +1.71% +3.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 23
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -53.68%
75th Percentile £33.69 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £63.50 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% -0.31%

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 23 September 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 (10.53%) SAP HR
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
3 4 (21.05%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) GitLab
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Test Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Payroll Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Test Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer in Test
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) React
1 5 (26.32%) REST
1 5 (26.32%) Spring
1 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 4 (21.05%) Next.js
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) OAuth
3 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Security
4 2 (10.53%) Playwright
4 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
4 2 (10.53%) Vue
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.26%) Flask
5 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (5.26%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) Coaching
4 10 (52.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
5 9 (47.37%) Observability
5 9 (47.37%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (42.11%) Technical Debt
7 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
7 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
8 6 (31.58%) AI
8 6 (31.58%) DevOps
8 6 (31.58%) MLOps
8 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (26.32%) Community of Practice
9 5 (26.32%) LLM
9 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
10 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 6 (31.58%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Grafana
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft