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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 37 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing QA 24 28 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.48% 4.50% 2.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.22% 21.05% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £211 £112 £149
25th Percentile £308 £256 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +18.42% -15.56%
75th Percentile £420 £469 £409
90th Percentile £425 £581 £479
Scotland median daily rate £402 £463 £435
% change year-on-year -13.08% +6.32% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
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 £30.50 £15.79 £14.98
% change year-on-year +93.19% +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 148 133 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.45% 21.38% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 65 96
10th Percentile £194 £283 £165
25th Percentile £338 £413 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +3.93% -2.63%
75th Percentile £534 £500 £527
90th Percentile £643 £559 £609
Scotland median daily rate £450 £454 £450
% change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £25.42 £15.83
25th Percentile - £35.00 £17.09
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year - +199.95% -68.05%
75th Percentile - £66.88 £47.09
90th Percentile - £73.50 £63.83
Scotland median hourly rate £14.00 £35.00 £14.98
% change year-on-year -60.00% +133.64% -51.86%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 September 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
1 6 (25.00%) IPsec
1 6 (25.00%) LAN
1 6 (25.00%) Network Security
1 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 6 (25.00%) Unified Communications
1 6 (25.00%) VPN
1 6 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (12.50%) Internet
3 3 (12.50%) WAN
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
5 1 (4.17%) HTTP
5 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
1 5 (20.83%) Power Query
2 1 (4.17%) Db2
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Automotive
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) Playwright
2 1 (4.17%) pytest
2 1 (4.17%) Quarkus
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) AI
1 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
2 6 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
2 6 (25.00%) High Availability
2 6 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (25.00%) Network Management
2 6 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 5 (20.83%) Analytics
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CCNA
3 3 (12.50%) CCNP
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) CBAP
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Functional Safety
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco
1 6 (25.00%) F5
1 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (16.67%) UiPath
3 2 (8.33%) Motorola
3 2 (8.33%) Panasonic
3 2 (8.33%) Samsung
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Pega