Test Strategy Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 100 102
Rank change year-on-year +40 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 18 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.23% 0.69% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 0.72% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 12
10th Percentile £414 £401 £408
25th Percentile £453 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% -18.98%
75th Percentile £577 £563 £487
90th Percentile £634 £643 £545
Scotland median daily rate £490 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +8.89% +2.86% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Strategy 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 709 1,245 1,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.75% 95.18% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 898 1,275
10th Percentile £250 £260 £252
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 19
10th Percentile £15.91 £17.72 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.31 £19.49 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.44 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.13 £51.25
90th Percentile - £67.50 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £28.43
% change year-on-year +10.05% -37.66% -32.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (22.22%) IaaS
1 4 (22.22%) PaaS
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
2 3 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) Selenium
3 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
3 4 (22.22%) Git
3 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) Subversion
3 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
3 4 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 3 (16.67%) JMeter
4 3 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Senior
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Test Manager
4 4 (22.22%) UAT Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
7 1 (5.56%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Equities
3 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 7 (38.89%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Test Management
4 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 5 (27.78%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (22.22%) ATDD
6 4 (22.22%) BDD
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Defect Management
6 4 (22.22%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (22.22%) Feature Driven Development
6 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
6 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) C++
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 4 (22.22%) VBA
2 4 (22.22%) VBScript
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ISEB
1 6 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.11%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Blue Prism
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft