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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 35 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.50% 5.59% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 5.87% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 22
10th Percentile £343 £291 £363
25th Percentile £463 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £468
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -1.71% -1.47%
75th Percentile £588 £516 £501
90th Percentile £678 £540 £554
Scotland median daily rate £425 £440 £463
% change year-on-year -3.41% -4.86% -5.13%
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% -42.91%

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 580 596 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.22% 95.21% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 330 427
10th Percentile £235 £200 £220
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.13% +2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £584
90th Percentile £652 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £15.82
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% -11.54% +22.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £31.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +10.05%

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 12 April 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 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
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
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) git-flow
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (20.00%) REST
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%) PostGIS
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
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%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) SDET
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks