Test Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Test Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Test Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 140 138
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 12 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.80% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.84% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 28
10th Percentile - £363 £297
25th Percentile £363 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £410 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +9.27% +2.74%
75th Percentile £409 £475 £438
90th Percentile £471 £544 £544
UK median daily rate £448 £450 £405
% change year-on-year -0.44% +11.11% +9.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,102 2,722 3,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.11% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,953 2,393
10th Percentile £201 £238 £213
25th Percentile £366 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 52
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.02
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.91
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.53% -33.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in Scotland

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in Scotland

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in Scotland

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in Scotland

Test Analyst
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 Test Analyst 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 +33 5 £425 +5.33%
Glasgow +2 4 £375 -1.32%
Lanarkshire +3 2 £388 +3.33%
Test Analyst
UK

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Test Analyst 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 Scotland region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) ISTQB
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Finance
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) JIRA
5 3 (25.00%) ISEB
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 2 (16.67%) Subversion
6 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 2 (16.67%) HP
6 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
6 2 (16.67%) SOA
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) C++
6 2 (16.67%) Java

Test Analyst Skill Set
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (16.67%) TestComplete
2 2 (16.67%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (16.67%) Zephyr
3 1 (8.33%) SilkCentral
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 2 (16.67%) SOA
6 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) VBA
2 2 (16.67%) VBScript
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (25.00%) ISEB
2 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba
2 1 (8.33%) SAP