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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 53 61
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing QA 25 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.94% 2.66% 3.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.66% 12.94% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 26
10th Percentile £112 £149 £291
25th Percentile £256 £268 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £456
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -16.71% -8.75%
75th Percentile £469 £409 £525
90th Percentile £581 £479 £575
Scotland median daily rate £450 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £15.42 -
25th Percentile £18.54 £16.04 -
Median hourly rate £19.37 £17.09 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% - -
75th Percentile £20.19 £18.13 -
90th Percentile - £18.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.79 £14.98 -
% change year-on-year +5.39% - -

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 134 170 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.10% 20.56% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 191
10th Percentile £247 £160 £250
25th Percentile £413 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -1.60%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £529
90th Percentile £563 £619 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £25.42 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £18.07 £57.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.27 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +214.72% -69.55% +217.46%
75th Percentile £66.88 £18.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £47.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +15.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for QA 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 19 September 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) IaaS
4 2 (8.00%) PaaS
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) IPsec
2 1 (4.00%) MPLS
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) SDH
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.00%) git-flow
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Postman
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) Subversion
3 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Electronics
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Business Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) ETL Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) RESTful
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
2 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) Java RMI
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.00%) Legacy Code
4 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.00%) Derivative
5 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (4.00%) SCADA
5 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Migration
2 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Business Analysis
5 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Time Management
7 4 (16.00%) Validation
8 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.00%) VBA
4 2 (8.00%) VBScript
5 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) ISEB
1 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) CCNA
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) HNC
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) dotdigital
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) Nokia
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto