Tester Contracts in Edinburgh

Tester
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Tester daily rate in Edinburgh is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 98 114
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 6 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.75% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.14% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile - £361 £339
25th Percentile £363 £388 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -2.65%
75th Percentile £388 £516 £447
90th Percentile - £543 £509
Scotland median daily rate £375 £439 £425
% change year-on-year -14.58% +3.29% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £9.50
Scotland median hourly rate - - £9.50

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 763 1,228 1,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.64% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 876 1,277
10th Percentile £206 £240 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £565
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +11.68% -18.99% -28.40%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Edinburgh

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Edinburgh

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Edinburgh

Tester Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) WebDriver
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube

Tester 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java