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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 43 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing QA 31 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.73% 3.33% 4.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.82% 14.29% 15.42%
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 £540 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +38.64% -8.35% -15.00%

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 174 140 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 26.56% 23.29% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 97 135
10th Percentile £165 £179 £219
25th Percentile £262 £315 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -3.07%
75th Percentile £578 £534 £565
90th Percentile £682 £621 £669
Scotland median daily rate £440 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 11
10th Percentile £17.23 - £17.72
25th Percentile £45.13 £26.32 £18.14
Median hourly rate £51.25 £27.35 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +87.39% +19.59% +0.82%
75th Percentile £65.25 £49.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £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 31 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 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) IaaS
4 1 (3.23%) PaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) IPsec
1 2 (6.45%) LAN
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
1 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.45%) Unified Communications
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
1 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (6.45%) GIS
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.23%) Metadata
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Git
3 3 (9.68%) GitLab
4 2 (6.45%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) Subversion
5 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Retail
5 4 (12.90%) Retail Banking
6 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.45%) Military
8 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Business Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Finance Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.23%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) .NET
1 3 (9.68%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) JMS
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.23%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Photography
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (29.03%) Validation
3 8 (25.81%) Migration
4 6 (19.35%) AI
4 6 (19.35%) Data Extraction
5 5 (16.13%) Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
5 5 (16.13%) LLM
5 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.13%) Natural Language Processing
5 5 (16.13%) OCR
5 5 (16.13%) Prompt Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Wealth Management
6 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
6 4 (12.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.23%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) VBA
4 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) CCNA
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco
3 2 (6.45%) F5
3 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) SAP