Test Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Automated Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 26 44
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 23 96 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.66% 8.16% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 8.68% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 72 86
10th Percentile - £413 £403
25th Percentile £363 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £477 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -8.27% +17.51%
75th Percentile £498 £518 £574
90th Percentile £539 £550 £594
Scotland median daily rate £475 £480 £491
% change year-on-year -0.94% -2.39% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £66.56 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.03% +52.14% +16.67%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,106 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.32% 93.97% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 776 1,224
10th Percentile £214 £225 £272
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £656 £604 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

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 31 May 2024.

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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
1 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
1 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (30.43%) Serverless
2 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 2G
1 1 (4.35%) 5G
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) GIS
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Selenium
2 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) WebDriver
3 5 (21.74%) JIRA
4 4 (17.39%) GitLab
5 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (13.04%) Git
6 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
6 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (8.70%) Subversion
6 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (4.35%) Appium
7 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.35%) JUnit
7 1 (4.35%) NUnit
7 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Automation Tester
1 6 (26.09%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Test Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) AWS CDK
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) React
3 2 (8.70%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) PostGIS
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Security
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Web Flow
4 1 (4.35%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) Equities
2 2 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
4 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
5 6 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
7 4 (17.39%) Defect Management
7 4 (17.39%) Integration Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Kanban
7 4 (17.39%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
7 4 (17.39%) TDD
8 3 (13.04%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (13.04%) Microservices
8 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) C#
3 7 (30.43%) Java
4 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (26.09%) Python
5 4 (17.39%) Bash
5 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (13.04%) Groovy
7 2 (8.70%) C++
7 2 (8.70%) VBA
7 2 (8.70%) VBScript
8 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) ISEB
1 4 (17.39%) ISTQB
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.70%) PMO
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (8.70%) Kibana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Confluent
2 1 (4.35%) IBM
2 1 (4.35%) Informatica
2 1 (4.35%) StreamSets