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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 91 164 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.73% 9.09% 11.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 9.51% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 75 86 205
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £36,527
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £78,010 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,050 £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 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 1,382 1,724 2,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.08% 95.51% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,008 1,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,745 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £89,472 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%

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 12 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) WildFly
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) AWS
2 17 (18.68%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) SaaS
4 6 (6.59%) GCP
4 6 (6.59%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.20%) OCI
5 2 (2.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CodeStar
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.10%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.30%) MySQL
3 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (18.68%) JIRA
2 13 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 13 (14.29%) Selenium
3 12 (13.19%) Bitbucket
3 12 (13.19%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.79%) Git
5 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.49%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.40%) Appium
6 4 (4.40%) Maven
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (2.20%) JMeter
7 2 (2.20%) JUnit
7 2 (2.20%) Mockito
7 2 (2.20%) Postman
7 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.20%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.10%) Mocha
8 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.10%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Games
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.69%) Banking
6 4 (4.40%) Electronics
6 4 (4.40%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Local Government
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) QA Engineer
2 16 (17.58%) Test Engineer
2 16 (17.58%) Tester
3 14 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Lead
5 9 (9.89%) QA Leader
5 9 (9.89%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) Hardware Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Hardware Test Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) QA Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Applications Tester
9 5 (5.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) .NET Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Hardware Tester
10 4 (4.40%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.88%) Playwright
2 11 (12.09%) Spring
2 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
3 10 (10.99%) .NET
4 6 (6.59%) REST
5 5 (5.49%) Node.js
6 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.40%) FHIR
6 4 (4.40%) J2EE
6 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle ADF
6 4 (4.40%) React
7 3 (3.30%) ADO
7 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.30%) Django
7 3 (3.30%) Java EE
7 3 (3.30%) NestJS
7 3 (3.30%) OpenJDK
7 3 (3.30%) SOAP
8 2 (2.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) IoT
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (61.54%) Software Testing
2 49 (53.85%) Agile
3 30 (32.97%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.27%) Mentoring
5 19 (20.88%) Code Quality
6 15 (16.48%) Regression Testing
7 13 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.19%) Test Management
9 11 (12.09%) Microservices
9 11 (12.09%) QA Automation
10 10 (10.99%) OO
10 10 (10.99%) Scrum
11 9 (9.89%) Coaching
12 8 (8.79%) OOP
12 8 (8.79%) TDD
13 7 (7.69%) Computer Science
14 6 (6.59%) DevOps
14 6 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (6.59%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) Python
2 24 (26.37%) JavaScript
3 22 (24.18%) Java
4 19 (20.88%) SQL
5 16 (17.58%) C#
6 15 (16.48%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.40%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
8 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (64.84%) 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 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (12.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle
2 5 (5.49%) Google
3 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.10%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.10%) CyberTech
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow