QA Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing QA 41 29 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.16% 4.46% 2.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.12% 19.21% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 11
10th Percentile £245 £116 £313
25th Percentile £255 £150 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £420 £473 £750
90th Percentile £438 £521 -
Scotland median daily rate £350 £450 £443
% change year-on-year -22.22% +1.58% -11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £19.37 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year - +1.02% -
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 170 151 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.38% 23.23% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 90 114
10th Percentile £235 £209 £179
25th Percentile £391 £400 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% - -6.05%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £547
90th Percentile £673 £563 £623
Scotland median daily rate £440 £460 £438
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.02% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile - £20.10 £17.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £22.43 £18.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.35 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +101.10% +42.67% -68.05%
75th Percentile £66.50 £50.44 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.68 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £18.94 £14.98
% change year-on-year +164.03% +26.42% -31.13%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

QA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

QA
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Edinburgh

QA
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Primavera
2 1 (2.44%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
1 8 (19.51%) IPsec
1 8 (19.51%) LAN
1 8 (19.51%) Network Security
1 8 (19.51%) SD-WAN
1 8 (19.51%) Unified Communications
1 8 (19.51%) VPN
1 8 (19.51%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (9.76%) Internet
3 4 (9.76%) WAN
4 2 (4.88%) DNS
5 1 (2.44%) HTTP
5 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Power BI
2 4 (9.76%) Power Query
3 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.88%) GIS
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.44%) Db2
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Git
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 2 (4.88%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.44%) Subversion
5 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 3 (7.32%) Retail Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Military
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Analyst
2 8 (19.51%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Automation Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Development Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Finance Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior
5 2 (4.88%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) .NET
1 2 (4.88%) FastAPI
1 2 (4.88%) React
1 2 (4.88%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) CSS
2 1 (2.44%) HTML
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) OAuth
2 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.44%) OpenID
2 1 (2.44%) Quarkus
2 1 (2.44%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.20%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Photography
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Migration
1 10 (24.39%) Roadmaps
2 9 (21.95%) Agile
2 9 (21.95%) High Availability
3 8 (19.51%) AI
3 8 (19.51%) Decision-Making
3 8 (19.51%) Digital Innovation
3 8 (19.51%) Load Balancing
3 8 (19.51%) Network Management
3 8 (19.51%) Programme Delivery
3 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.07%) Analytics
4 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.07%) Validation
5 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
5 6 (14.63%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
6 5 (12.20%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) VBA
5 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) CCNA
3 4 (9.76%) CCNP
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) CBAP
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (17.07%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Cisco
1 8 (19.51%) F5
1 8 (19.51%) Palo Alto
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) UiPath
4 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) SAP