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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 31 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 89 168 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.84% 9.05% 11.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 9.49% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 76 90 205
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,925 £36,527
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60,487 £78,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,716 £89,472 £79,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%

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 1,340 1,771 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.87% 95.37% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,043 1,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.80% +14.50%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

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 1 June 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 (14.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) AWS
2 17 (19.10%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) GCP
3 8 (8.99%) GitHub
3 8 (8.99%) SaaS
4 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.25%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) OCI
4 2 (2.25%) Serverless
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.12%) AWS CodeStar
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.12%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.37%) MySQL
3 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) JIRA
2 14 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.61%) Cypress.io
3 13 (14.61%) Selenium
4 12 (13.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.87%) Git
6 6 (6.74%) Maven
7 4 (4.49%) Appium
7 4 (4.49%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (4.49%) TeamCity
8 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.25%) JMeter
9 2 (2.25%) JUnit
9 2 (2.25%) Mockito
9 2 (2.25%) Postman
9 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.25%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.12%) GitLab
10 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Games
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Banking
5 8 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Electronics
6 4 (4.49%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) QA Engineer
2 16 (17.98%) Software Engineer
3 15 (16.85%) Tester
4 14 (15.73%) Test Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Lead
6 9 (10.11%) Java Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) QA Leader
7 8 (8.99%) Hardware Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Hardware Test Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Senior
8 7 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) QA Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Applications Tester
10 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Hardware Tester
11 4 (4.49%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) Playwright
2 12 (13.48%) Spring
2 12 (13.48%) Spring Boot
3 9 (10.11%) .NET
4 6 (6.74%) REST
5 5 (5.62%) JSON
5 5 (5.62%) Kafka
6 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.49%) FHIR
6 4 (4.49%) J2EE
6 4 (4.49%) Node.js
6 4 (4.49%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.49%) Oracle ADF
6 4 (4.49%) React
6 4 (4.49%) Web Services
7 3 (3.37%) Django
7 3 (3.37%) NestJS
7 3 (3.37%) RESTful
7 3 (3.37%) XML
8 2 (2.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.74%) IoT
3 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.37%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.67%) Software Testing
2 48 (53.93%) Agile
3 32 (35.96%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.84%) Mentoring
5 19 (21.35%) Code Quality
6 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.73%) Microservices
6 14 (15.73%) Regression Testing
7 12 (13.48%) Test Management
8 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
8 11 (12.36%) QA Automation
9 9 (10.11%) Coaching
9 9 (10.11%) Scrum
9 9 (10.11%) TDD
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.99%) DevOps
10 8 (8.99%) OO
11 6 (6.74%) Computer Science
11 6 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.20%) Python
2 22 (24.72%) Java
2 22 (24.72%) JavaScript
3 20 (22.47%) SQL
4 15 (16.85%) C#
5 14 (15.73%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.37%) Bash
7 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.12%) Groovy
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (62.92%) QA
2 16 (17.98%) ISO 9001
3 4 (4.49%) DICOM
3 4 (4.49%) HL7
3 4 (4.49%) ISO 13485
3 4 (4.49%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Google
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.25%) IBM
5 1 (1.12%) Black Duck
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow