Test Automation Jobs in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 35 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 71 94 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.96% 6.30% 9.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 7.03% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 77 114
10th Percentile £51,564 £40,000 £43,453
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.11% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £93,778 £61,949 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £84,774 £89,472
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 869 1,338 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.42% 89.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 397 941 1,154
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,471 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.70% +4.78%

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
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Test Automation in Edinburgh

Test Automation
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Automation in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 1 (1.41%) CICS
1 1 (1.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) AWS
2 19 (26.76%) GCP
3 18 (25.35%) Azure
4 9 (12.68%) Serverless
5 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.63%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.63%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.23%) SaaS
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.82%) Apigee
8 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.82%) npm
8 2 (2.82%) OCI
9 1 (1.41%) GitHub
9 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) Internet
2 2 (2.82%) FTP
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) BGP
3 1 (1.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.41%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) SSL
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.27%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.82%) Big Data
6 2 (2.82%) DB2
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
7 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
7 1 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.08%) Maven
3 7 (9.86%) Cypress.io
3 7 (9.86%) JUnit
3 7 (9.86%) Selenium
4 5 (7.04%) Git
4 5 (7.04%) GitLab
4 5 (7.04%) Postman
4 5 (7.04%) TeamCity
4 5 (7.04%) TestNG
4 5 (7.04%) webpack
5 3 (4.23%) Fiddler
5 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 34 (47.89%) Finance
2 26 (36.62%) Banking
3 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Games
5 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (40.85%) Software Engineer
2 22 (30.99%) Senior
3 14 (19.72%) Lead
3 14 (19.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Android Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Test Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (4.23%) Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Automation Test Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) React
1 14 (19.72%) RESTful
1 14 (19.72%) Spring Boot
2 13 (18.31%) Spring
3 8 (11.27%) Android Jetpack
3 8 (11.27%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
4 6 (8.45%) Jest
4 6 (8.45%) Node.js
5 5 (7.04%) .NET
5 5 (7.04%) .NET Framework
5 5 (7.04%) JWT
5 5 (7.04%) OAuth
5 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
5 5 (7.04%) Playwright
5 5 (7.04%) Redux
6 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.63%) Enzyme
6 4 (5.63%) REST
6 4 (5.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Mobile App
2 14 (19.72%) Product Ownership
3 13 (18.31%) Public Cloud
4 9 (12.68%) Online Banking
5 8 (11.27%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
7 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.23%) Replication
8 2 (2.82%) AS400
8 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.82%) iSeries
8 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.41%) Clustering
9 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Android
2 7 (9.86%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) VMS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (49.30%) CI/CD
2 34 (47.89%) Microservices
3 32 (45.07%) Software Engineering
4 30 (42.25%) DevOps
5 28 (39.44%) Agile
6 27 (38.03%) TDD
7 20 (28.17%) Unit Testing
8 19 (26.76%) Roadmaps
9 17 (23.94%) Containerisation
9 17 (23.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (21.13%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (19.72%) Software Testing
12 12 (16.90%) Pair Programming
12 12 (16.90%) SDLC
12 12 (16.90%) User Experience
13 10 (14.08%) Event-Driven
13 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (14.08%) Line Management
13 10 (14.08%) Scrum
14 8 (11.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) Java
2 23 (32.39%) JavaScript
3 14 (19.72%) SQL
4 12 (16.90%) Python
5 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.68%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.63%) C#
8 3 (4.23%) C++
9 2 (2.82%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) RPG
9 2 (2.82%) RPG IV
10 1 (1.41%) C
10 1 (1.41%) JCL
10 1 (1.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (2.82%) CCNP
1 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.41%) CCNA
2 1 (1.41%) ISEB
2 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (49.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (21.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Istio
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Adobe
1 4 (5.63%) Google
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle
1 4 (5.63%) Tealium
2 3 (4.23%) IBM
3 2 (2.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.41%) F5
4 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow