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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 47 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +37
Contract jobs citing QA 20 22 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.40% 3.54% 4.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 14.67% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 28
10th Percentile £353 - £272
25th Percentile £461 £148 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £149 £413
Median % change year-on-year +277.08% -63.94% -21.38%
75th Percentile £612 £353 £531
90th Percentile £682 £400 £583
Scotland median daily rate £533 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +40.13% -10.59% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.43 £15.00 -
% change year-on-year -17.13% - -

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 140 150 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.77% 24.12% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 89 158
10th Percentile £173 £150 £229
25th Percentile £375 £307 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £528 £520 £550
90th Percentile £590 £620 £633
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £24.96 £18.40 £18.75
25th Percentile £30.38 £23.49 £20.30
Median hourly rate £48.75 £48.68 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +112.83% +0.82%
75th Percentile £64.69 £71.25 £42.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.50 £53.77
Scotland median hourly rate £31.00 £27.35 £16.71
% change year-on-year +13.35% +63.67% +26.98%

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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

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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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Edinburgh

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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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) git-flow
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Legal
7 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Business Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.00%) HR Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) QA Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) JMS
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (15.00%) AI
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) MVC
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow