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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing QA 23 24 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.78% 3.48% 3.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.54% 15.89% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 23
10th Percentile £112 £148 £328
25th Percentile £456 £149 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £348 £425
Median % change year-on-year +55.12% -18.09% -19.81%
75th Percentile £599 £409 £525
90th Percentile £672 £494 £575
Scotland median daily rate £525 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +34.62% -8.24% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.21 £14.98 -
% change year-on-year -18.49% - -

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 148 151 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.34% 21.92% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 89 162
10th Percentile £150 £170 £232
25th Percentile £402 £307 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £462
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -2.54% -2.79%
75th Percentile £528 £525 £541
90th Percentile £586 £619 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £444 £464
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.31% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £26.64 £17.26 £19.27
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.66 £21.58
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.35 £41.44
Median % change year-on-year +110.24% -33.99% +82.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.68 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £40.00 £14.98 £20.30
% change year-on-year +167.02% -26.19% +54.22%

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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 28 November 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) git-flow
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Legal
7 1 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Business Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) IT Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Email Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Head of Development
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) JMS
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
4 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Code
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Data Protection
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 5 (21.74%) Business Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Data Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) API Design
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (13.04%) API Development
7 3 (13.04%) Black-Box Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) ERP
7 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) Perl
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) ISEB
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) dotdigital