Test Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Test Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Test Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 157 165
Rank change year-on-year +35 +8 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 5 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £433 £361 £383
25th Percentile £444 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +20.00% +13.33%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £488
90th Percentile £528 - £533
UK median daily rate £450 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -10.89% +6.32% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.78 £52.50 £47.93
% change year-on-year -14.71% +9.55% +6.50%

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 2,047 2,615 3,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.44% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,866 2,332
10th Percentile £200 £238 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £47.97
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
Edinburgh +28 1 - - 5
Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Test Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) VB
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Infragistics
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) VB6
1 4 (80.00%) QA
1 4 (80.00%) WPF
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
1 4 (80.00%) API Testing
1 4 (80.00%) WinForms
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Test Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) WinForms
1 4 (80.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) API Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Yield Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) VB
1 4 (80.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Infragistics
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle