Test Leader Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Lead
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Test Lead daily rate in Edinburgh is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 106 120
Rank change year-on-year +37 +14 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.47% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.49% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £539 £413 £421
25th Percentile £569 £428 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £513 £481
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +6.49% +6.94%
75th Percentile £672 £613 £545
90th Percentile £681 £647 £567
Scotland median daily rate £638 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +21.43% +23.53% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 784 1,233 1,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 95.58% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,278
10th Percentile £203 £250 £230
25th Percentile £407 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.53 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
% change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Edinburgh

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in Edinburgh

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in Edinburgh

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Burndown Charts
4 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (25.00%) PMO
4 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Component Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree

Test Leader Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Component Testing
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Google