Test Automation Jobs in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 91 216 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.93% 10.06% 12.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 10.46% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 73 126 190
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,727 £36,527
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,715 £65,938
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,472 £77,750
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +17.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 2,065 2,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.42% 96.18% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,192 1,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,404 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 13 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) AWS
2 19 (20.88%) Azure
3 16 (17.58%) SaaS
4 8 (8.79%) GitHub
5 7 (7.69%) GCP
6 4 (4.40%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.10%) OCI
8 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.10%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) MySQL
1 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.48%) JIRA
3 14 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 12 (13.19%) Bitbucket
5 10 (10.99%) Maven
6 8 (8.79%) Git
6 8 (8.79%) Selenium
7 4 (4.40%) Appium
7 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.20%) JUnit
8 2 (2.20%) Mockito
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (2.20%) Postman
8 2 (2.20%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.10%) GitLab
9 1 (1.10%) JMeter
9 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Games
3 13 (14.29%) Banking
3 13 (14.29%) Finance
4 9 (9.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.40%) Electronics
5 4 (4.40%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Software Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) QA Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Tester
6 11 (12.09%) Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Lead
7 10 (10.99%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Principal Software Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) QA Leader
8 9 (9.89%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Test Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Windows Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Hardware Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Hardware Test Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Java Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (5.49%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 13 (14.29%) Playwright
3 12 (13.19%) Spring
4 9 (9.89%) .NET
5 8 (8.79%) JSON
5 8 (8.79%) Kafka
5 8 (8.79%) REST
6 6 (6.59%) React
7 5 (5.49%) Node.js
7 5 (5.49%) RESTful
7 5 (5.49%) Web Services
8 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.40%) FHIR
8 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.40%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (4.40%) XML
9 3 (3.30%) Django
9 3 (3.30%) NestJS
10 2 (2.20%) J2EE
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Public Cloud
2 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.09%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) e-Learning
4 3 (3.30%) IoT
5 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Mac OS
2 9 (9.89%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Agile
2 47 (51.65%) Software Testing
3 37 (40.66%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.27%) Mentoring
5 21 (23.08%) TDD
6 19 (20.88%) Code Quality
7 17 (18.68%) Microservices
8 12 (13.19%) Test Management
9 11 (12.09%) Analytics
9 11 (12.09%) DevOps
9 11 (12.09%) QA Automation
9 11 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
11 9 (9.89%) Computer Security
11 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.89%) Multithreading
11 9 (9.89%) Regression Testing
11 9 (9.89%) Reverse Engineering
11 9 (9.89%) Security Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Python
2 24 (26.37%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.98%) Java
4 17 (18.68%) SQL
5 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 12 (13.19%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) C++
8 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (9.89%) Degree
2 2 (2.20%) OCP
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (51.65%) QA
2 16 (17.58%) ISO 9001
3 4 (4.40%) DICOM
3 4 (4.40%) HL7
3 4 (4.40%) ISO 13485
3 4 (4.40%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Dell
2 7 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (4.40%) IBM
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle
5 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace