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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing QA 33 28 34
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.85% 4.44% 4.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.41% 19.05% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 23
10th Percentile £245 - £258
25th Percentile £255 £148 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £478 £750
90th Percentile £599 £515 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -15.00%
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 £12.65 £19.37 £21.64
% change year-on-year -34.68% -10.51% -

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 170 147 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 25.00% 23.30% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 93 128
10th Percentile £187 £183 £219
25th Percentile £306 £315 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.74% -4.10%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £571
90th Percentile £681 £624 £665
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 12
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.88 £17.75
25th Percentile £45.13 £24.38 £18.20
Median hourly rate £51.25 £27.35 £21.02
Median % change year-on-year +87.39% +30.11% -59.96%
75th Percentile £65.25 £38.79 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.51 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £18.27
% change year-on-year +82.82% +49.70% -61.72%

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

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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 20 April 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) CMS
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) IaaS
4 1 (3.03%) PaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
1 4 (12.12%) IPsec
1 4 (12.12%) LAN
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
1 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
1 4 (12.12%) Unified Communications
1 4 (12.12%) VPN
1 4 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (6.06%) GIS
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.03%) Metadata
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Retail
5 4 (12.12%) Retail Banking
6 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Military
8 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Development Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Finance Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Support Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Business Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) GIS Developer
6 1 (3.03%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.03%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) JMS
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Photography
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
2 9 (27.27%) Validation
3 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.21%) Migration
5 6 (18.18%) AI
5 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.18%) Data Extraction
5 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.15%) Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) LLM
6 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.15%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (15.15%) OCR
6 5 (15.15%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Wealth Management
7 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C#
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.03%) VBA
4 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.09%) CCNA
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) CCNP
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (24.24%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Cisco
2 4 (12.12%) F5
2 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Avaloq
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) SAP