Component Testing Contracts in Scotland

Component Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Component Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Component Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 - 176
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Contract jobs citing Component Testing 9 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £447 - £419
25th Percentile £460 - £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 - £500
90th Percentile £550 - -
UK median daily rate £523 £568 £500
% change year-on-year -7.93% +13.50% +23.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Component Testing 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Component Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Component Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Component Testing in Scotland

Component Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Component Testing in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Component Testing in Scotland

Component Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Component Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Lothian - 7 £495 -
Edinburgh - 2 £539 -
Component Testing
UK

Component Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (55.56%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) 5G
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 6 (66.67%) JUnit
3 5 (55.56%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (55.56%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) J2EE
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 6 (66.67%) Apache Camel
3 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Equities
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Coaching
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (66.67%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Testing
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle