System Testing Contracts in Scotland

System Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 140 163
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing System Testing 7 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.80% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.87% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 7
10th Percentile £435 £413 -
25th Percentile £450 £417 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +16.44%
75th Percentile £494 £528 £481
90th Percentile £640 £566 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.32
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £86.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -75.65% +93.82% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

System 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 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Scotland

System 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 System Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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 +40 4 £475 -5.00% 1
Perthshire +6 2 £450 -10.00%
Lanarkshire +2 1 £488 -
System Testing
UK

System 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Identification
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle