ISTQB Contracts in Edinburgh

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 105 118
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 -15
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.74% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.82% 2.53% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £421 £405 £356
25th Percentile £433 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £519 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +22.06% -
75th Percentile £508 £545 £438
90th Percentile £522 £548 £463
Scotland median daily rate £425 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

ISTQB is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 157 198 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.41% 15.24% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 125 152
10th Percentile £179 £166 £314
25th Percentile £385 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £575
90th Percentile £633 £600 £636
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 5
10th Percentile £15.43 £21.42 £17.01
25th Percentile £16.31 £21.67 £25.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.87% +9.47% +171.43%
75th Percentile £45.00 £54.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £62.30 -
Scotland median hourly rate £40.94 £21.47 £39.99
% change year-on-year +90.73% -46.32% +40.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) ATDD
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 2 (33.33%) V-Model
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle