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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +21
Contract jobs citing QA 41 22 25
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.30% 3.51% 2.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.70% 15.38% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £245 £150 £281
25th Percentile £255 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +5.01%
75th Percentile £420 £488 £750
90th Percentile £438 £528 -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £19.37 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year - +1.02% -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.65 £19.37 £14.98
% change year-on-year -34.68% +29.27% -

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 173 143 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.35% 22.81% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 85 119
10th Percentile £248 £237 £212
25th Percentile £400 £400 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -1.64% -4.49%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £561
90th Percentile £683 £607 £635
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £439
% change year-on-year - +2.51% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile £23.78 £20.10 £17.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £22.43 £18.27
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.35 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +91.96% +42.67% -
75th Percentile £64.00 £49.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £73.80 £61.68 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.36 £16.99
% change year-on-year +114.06% +37.52% -6.29%

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

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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 6 June 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 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Primavera
2 1 (2.44%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
1 8 (19.51%) IPsec
1 8 (19.51%) LAN
1 8 (19.51%) Network Security
1 8 (19.51%) SD-WAN
1 8 (19.51%) Unified Communications
1 8 (19.51%) VPN
1 8 (19.51%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (9.76%) Internet
3 4 (9.76%) WAN
4 2 (4.88%) DNS
5 1 (2.44%) HTTP
5 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) Power Query
3 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.88%) GIS
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.44%) Db2
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) GitLab
4 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.88%) Selenium
5 2 (4.88%) Zephyr
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.44%) Subversion
6 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Retail
6 4 (9.76%) Retail Banking
7 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.88%) Military
8 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Analyst
2 8 (19.51%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Telephony Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Development Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Finance Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Lead
7 1 (2.44%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) .NET
1 2 (4.88%) FastAPI
1 2 (4.88%) React
1 2 (4.88%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) CSS
2 1 (2.44%) HTML
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) OAuth
2 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.44%) OpenID
2 1 (2.44%) Quarkus
2 1 (2.44%) RESTful
2 1 (2.44%) Spring
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Photography
5 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
1 8 (19.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Migration
2 10 (24.39%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Roadmaps
3 9 (21.95%) High Availability
3 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (21.95%) Validation
4 8 (19.51%) AI
4 8 (19.51%) Decision-Making
4 8 (19.51%) Digital Innovation
4 8 (19.51%) Load Balancing
4 8 (19.51%) Network Management
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) Programme Delivery
5 7 (17.07%) Analytics
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Data Extraction
6 6 (14.63%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (14.63%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.20%) Asset Management
7 5 (12.20%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) SQL
2 8 (19.51%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) VBA
5 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.76%) CCNA
2 4 (9.76%) CCNP
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
1 10 (24.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Cisco
1 8 (19.51%) F5
1 8 (19.51%) Palo Alto
2 5 (12.20%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.44%) Pega
5 1 (2.44%) SAP