ISTQB Contracts in Scotland

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 121 157 173
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 1.02% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £373 £415 £358
25th Percentile £388 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £484 £550 £463
90th Percentile £513 £580 £488
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

ISTQB is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 609 591 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.43% 20.65% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 408 365
10th Percentile £188 £163 £180
25th Percentile £363 £375 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £632 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 14 18
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.65 £20.70
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £23.19
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.47 £42.57
Median % change year-on-year +90.73% -49.57% +118.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.90 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £65.00 £56.34
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB in Scotland

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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 ISTQB 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
Edinburgh +42 6 £469 -9.64%
Glasgow +1 1 £375 -37.50% 1
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UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
1 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
1 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) TestComplete
2 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) ATDD
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 2 (28.57%) TMMi
4 2 (28.57%) V-Model
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) VBA
2 2 (28.57%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle