QA Contracts in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 57 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing QA 29 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.43% 2.29% 3.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.21% 10.64% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 29
10th Percentile £116 £313 £248
25th Percentile £150 £390 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £473 £750 £575
90th Percentile £521 - £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £443 £500
% change year-on-year +1.58% -11.40% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.79 £14.98 -
% change year-on-year +5.39% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 151 188 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.05% 21.51% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 243
10th Percentile £209 £189 £213
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -6.05% +3.23%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £544
90th Percentile £563 £623 £594
Scotland median daily rate £460 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +5.02% -7.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £20.10 £17.42 -
25th Percentile £22.43 £18.27 £57.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -68.05% +217.46%
75th Percentile £50.44 £60.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.68 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.94 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.42% -31.13% -41.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for QA 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (6.90%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) IPsec
2 1 (3.45%) MPLS
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) SDH
2 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) JIRA
3 3 (10.34%) Postman
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.90%) Subversion
4 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.90%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.45%) git-flow
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) MSTest
5 1 (3.45%) NUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Ranorex
General
1 22 (75.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Finance
4 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.79%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
1 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) CSS
2 1 (3.45%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.45%) HTML
2 1 (3.45%) Java RMI
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Pandas
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) WebSockets
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Legacy Code
4 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Device Driver
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) SCADA
5 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (41.38%) Migration
3 10 (34.48%) Data Analysis
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (27.59%) Validation
5 7 (24.14%) Business Analysis
5 7 (24.14%) ETL
6 6 (20.69%) Time Management
6 6 (20.69%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
7 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
7 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
7 5 (17.24%) Use Case
7 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) Perl
3 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) C++
4 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.90%) VBA
4 2 (6.90%) VBScript
5 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) A+ Certification
2 2 (6.90%) ISEB
2 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) HNC
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) dotdigital
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Nokia
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto