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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 40 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing QA 23 24 36
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.83% 3.95% 4.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.14% 16.33% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 26
10th Percentile £315 - £266
25th Percentile £441 £148 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £150 £413
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -63.66% -24.95%
75th Percentile £599 £400 £575
90th Percentile £620 £479 £750
Scotland median daily rate £565 £400 £409
% change year-on-year +41.25% -2.20% -18.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.65 £15.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -15.67% -66.53% +240.58%

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 175 147 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 29.12% 24.22% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 95 166
10th Percentile £154 £177 £223
25th Percentile £268 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £462
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.54% -3.65%
75th Percentile £555 £531 £538
90th Percentile £679 £633 £641
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +0.89% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 7
10th Percentile £17.23 £18.40 £20.81
25th Percentile £30.13 £23.49 £41.56
Median hourly rate £53.75 £48.68 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -19.55% +166.70%
75th Percentile £64.00 £71.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £73.20 £73.50 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £48.68 £22.87
% change year-on-year +7.86% +112.83% +73.78%

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

QA
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 February 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

QA
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 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (8.70%) GIS
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.35%) git-flow
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
4 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
5 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
6 3 (13.04%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (13.04%) Retail
6 3 (13.04%) Retail Banking
7 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.35%) Legal
8 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Business Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) GIS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) GIS Technician
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
2 2 (8.70%) JSON
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) JMS
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Photography
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (26.09%) AI
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
6 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
6 4 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (17.39%) Validation
6 4 (17.39%) Wealth Management
7 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (13.04%) LLM
7 3 (13.04%) Prompt Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) VBA
5 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) ISEB
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Avaloq
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks