Software Testing Contracts in Scotland

Software Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 93 117
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 12 73 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 2.59% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.80% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 57 36
10th Percentile £436 £128 £313
25th Percentile £468 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £543 £513 £546
90th Percentile £673 £669 £613
UK median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £15.83 £32.59
25th Percentile - £15.94 £49.26
Median hourly rate - £16.25 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - -70.18% -
75th Percentile - £27.70 £57.06
90th Percentile - £46.50 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software 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 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software 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 Software Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +8 7 £539 +13.37% 12
Glasgow -8 5 £496 +4.42% 8
Software Testing
UK

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
1 5 (41.67%) WebDriver
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (8.33%) Gatling
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Equities
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) SDET
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (16.67%) Burndown Charts
6 2 (16.67%) Component Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) VBA
2 2 (16.67%) VBScript
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) VMware