Test Management Contracts in Scotland

Test Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 150 165
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing Test Management 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile £393 £423 £346
25th Percentile £413 £475 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £520 £391
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +32.99% -2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £455
90th Percentile £641 £615 £508
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Test Management 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 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
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 £556 £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 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Scotland

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Scotland

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Scotland

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in Scotland

Test Management
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 Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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 +37 8 £556 +9.07% 1
Lanarkshire - 2 £388 - 1
Test Management
UK

Test Management
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 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JMeter
1 3 (27.27%) LoadRunner
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Test Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Equities
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
1 7 (63.64%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
3 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
3 5 (45.45%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Test Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Scalability Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Usability Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) ISEB
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (18.18%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle