Test Scripting Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 99
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 1.72% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.94% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £434 - £398
25th Percentile £447 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £522 £600 £456
90th Percentile £531 £641 £485
Scotland median daily rate £450 £381 £450
% change year-on-year +18.03% -15.28% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Scripting 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Edinburgh

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) ETRM
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk