Test Automation Job Trends in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 93 70 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.86% 7.49% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 7.70% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 73
10th Percentile £43,000 £51,081 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,295 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +47.23% -19.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £146,300 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -16.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 920 909 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.77% 97.32% 89.84%
Number of salaries quoted 494 443 968
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £34,275
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £71,250 £79,608 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.43%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Automation in Edinburgh

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 8 (8.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 78 (83.87%) Azure
2 74 (79.57%) GitHub
3 65 (69.89%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (54.84%) GitHub Copilot
5 24 (25.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (19.35%) Snowflake
7 16 (17.20%) OCI
8 15 (16.13%) dbt
8 15 (16.13%) Power Platform
9 12 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (10.75%) AWS
10 10 (10.75%) Azure Event Grid
10 10 (10.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (10.75%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (10.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (10.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 10 (10.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
11 8 (8.60%) Salesforce Einstein
12 7 (7.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.13%) Power BI
2 11 (11.83%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.60%) Tableau
4 7 (7.53%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.53%) Metadata
5 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) JIRA
2 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.20%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (8.60%) Git
5 6 (6.45%) Storybook
6 3 (3.23%) fastlane
7 2 (2.15%) Appium
7 2 (2.15%) Postman
7 2 (2.15%) Xcode
8 1 (1.08%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.08%) ClearCase
8 1 (1.08%) ClearQuest
8 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.08%) Gradle
8 1 (1.08%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.08%) JMeter
8 1 (1.08%) JUnit
8 1 (1.08%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (81.72%) Finance
2 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.20%) Marketing
5 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Games
8 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (31.18%) Senior
2 23 (24.73%) Applications Engineer
3 18 (19.35%) Salesforce Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (5.38%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.23%) Developer
11 2 (2.15%) Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) Operations Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) QC Engineer
11 2 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.15%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) Senior Test Engineer
11 2 (2.15%) Test Engineer
12 1 (1.08%) Senior Android Developer
12 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.11%) RESTful
2 26 (27.96%) SOAP
3 24 (25.81%) JSON
4 19 (20.43%) REST
5 18 (19.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (19.35%) OAuth
5 18 (19.35%) OAuth2
6 8 (8.60%) SAML
6 8 (8.60%) XML
7 7 (7.53%) React
8 6 (6.45%) JSON-LD
8 6 (6.45%) Next.js
9 1 (1.08%) Android Jetpack
9 1 (1.08%) Android SDK
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.08%) Core Data
9 1 (1.08%) NestJS
9 1 (1.08%) Retrofit
9 1 (1.08%) SwiftUI
9 1 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (45.16%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.58%) Product Ownership
3 17 (18.28%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.53%) Low-Code
4 7 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Android
1 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (87.10%) CI/CD
2 75 (80.65%) Asset Management
2 75 (80.65%) Coaching
2 75 (80.65%) DevOps
3 66 (70.97%) Agile
4 51 (54.84%) AI
5 49 (52.69%) Observability
6 39 (41.94%) Analytics
6 39 (41.94%) Clean Code
7 37 (39.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (38.71%) Data Modelling
9 29 (31.18%) Data Integration
9 29 (31.18%) Sprint Planning
9 29 (31.18%) Sprint Retrospective
10 25 (26.88%) Mentoring
11 21 (22.58%) ETL
12 20 (21.51%) Architectural Patterns
12 20 (21.51%) Migration
13 19 (20.43%) API Integration
14 18 (19.35%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.78%) Python
2 32 (34.41%) SQL
3 22 (23.66%) Java
4 18 (19.35%) Apex Code
5 16 (17.20%) PL/SQL
5 16 (17.20%) Shell Script
6 10 (10.75%) Bicep
7 7 (7.53%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.15%) VBA
9 1 (1.08%) C#
9 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) Accessibility
1 10 (10.75%) GDPR
1 10 (10.75%) WCAG
2 7 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (29.03%) Terraform
2 16 (17.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Salesforce
2 17 (18.28%) Oracle
3 10 (10.75%) Ab Initio
4 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.60%) Okta
5 7 (7.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.15%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.15%) Pega
7 1 (1.08%) Apple
7 1 (1.08%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow