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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 46 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing QA 32 20 34
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.01% 3.30% 4.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.08% 13.79% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 24
10th Percentile £245 - £261
25th Percentile £255 £148 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £150 £525
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% -71.43% -0.47%
75th Percentile £593 £488 £750
90th Percentile £599 £520 -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +37.50% -5.88% -10.53%

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 177 145 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 27.70% 23.93% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 104 131
10th Percentile £174 £177 £213
25th Percentile £272 £330 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% -2.70% -3.55%
75th Percentile £571 £534 £550
90th Percentile £678 £625 £660
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.67% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 11
10th Percentile £17.23 - £17.72
25th Percentile £40.25 £26.32 £18.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +82.82% +19.59% +0.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £49.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £61.68 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £27.35 £18.27
% change year-on-year +82.82% +49.70% -19.46%

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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 24 March 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 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) IPsec
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
1 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (6.25%) GIS
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
3 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.63%) Investment Banking
6 4 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (12.50%) Retail
6 4 (12.50%) Retail Banking
7 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Military
8 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Business Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) DBA
6 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) JMS
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.13%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Photography
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (28.13%) Validation
4 8 (25.00%) Migration
5 7 (21.88%) AI
6 6 (18.75%) Data Extraction
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 6 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
7 5 (15.63%) Analytics
7 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) LLM
7 5 (15.63%) OCR
7 5 (15.63%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Wealth Management
8 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) VBA
5 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) CCNA
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.13%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) SAP