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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 52 21
Rank change year-on-year +22 -31 +20
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 37 24 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.87% 2.93% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 3.39% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 90
10th Percentile £400 - £406
25th Percentile £403 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -1.84% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £514
90th Percentile £552 £623 £550
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £479
% change year-on-year -3.16% -0.84% +0.84%
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 604 709 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.87% 86.67% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 419 799
10th Percentile £240 £218 £242
25th Percentile £406 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £572 £540
90th Percentile £609 £663 £618
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -27.24%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £50.06 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%

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 22 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.41%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Serverless
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon S3
3 12 (32.43%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (18.92%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (16.22%) Azure
6 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
6 6 (16.22%) PaaS
6 6 (16.22%) SaaS
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (8.11%) IaaS
8 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.81%) GIS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.41%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.70%) Big Data
6 1 (2.70%) DB2
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.03%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) Git
4 6 (16.22%) Selenium
5 5 (13.51%) TeamCity
6 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
6 4 (10.81%) JIRA
6 4 (10.81%) Postman
7 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.11%) Storybook
7 3 (8.11%) Subversion
7 3 (8.11%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.41%) JUnit
9 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.70%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.70%) MSTest
9 1 (2.70%) NUnit
9 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 7 (18.92%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Games
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) QA Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Test Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) AWS CDK
2 6 (16.22%) PostGIS
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 5 (13.51%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) Jest
4 3 (8.11%) Playwright
5 2 (5.41%) CSS
5 2 (5.41%) PySpark
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
5 2 (5.41%) Spring
5 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.70%) JSON
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.70%) XML
6 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.11%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) CI/CD
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 16 (43.24%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Kanban
4 10 (27.03%) Migration
5 8 (21.62%) Unit Testing
6 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
6 7 (18.92%) Scrum
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.92%) TDD
7 6 (16.22%) Software Delivery
8 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Human-Centred Design
8 5 (13.51%) Inclusive Design
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
9 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.81%) Data Integration
9 4 (10.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) Java
2 11 (29.73%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 4 (10.81%) Bash
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) C++
6 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.11%) VBA
6 3 (8.11%) VBScript
7 2 (5.41%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) ISEB
1 3 (8.11%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle
1 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) IBM
2 2 (5.41%) Informatica
2 2 (5.41%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.70%) Confluent