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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing QA 35 27 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.85% 4.29% 3.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.08% 19.29% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 20
10th Percentile £236 - £250
25th Percentile £251 £148 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £275 £550
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% -50.00% +7.84%
75th Percentile £447 £452 £750
90th Percentile £545 £514 -
Scotland median daily rate £429 £400 £443
% change year-on-year +7.19% -9.71% -11.40%
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 £20.41
% change year-on-year -34.68% -5.10% -

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 166 140 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.99% 22.26% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 87 121
10th Percentile £210 £182 £213
25th Percentile £388 £333 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -6.15%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £558
90th Percentile £685 £625 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £440
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 9
10th Percentile £27.06 £20.10 £17.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £22.43 £18.27
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.35 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year +96.53% +42.67% -63.49%
75th Percentile £67.75 £49.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.68 -
Scotland median hourly rate £51.25 £27.35 £18.27
% change year-on-year +87.39% +49.70% -16.00%

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 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Edinburgh

QA
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 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
1 6 (17.14%) IPsec
1 6 (17.14%) LAN
1 6 (17.14%) Network Security
1 6 (17.14%) SD-WAN
1 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
1 6 (17.14%) VPN
1 6 (17.14%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (11.43%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) Internet
4 1 (2.86%) HTTP
4 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (5.71%) GIS
1 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.86%) DB2
2 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.86%) Subversion
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Investment Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Retail
5 4 (11.43%) Retail Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Military
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Analyst
1 6 (17.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Development Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Finance Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Test Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Lead
5 1 (2.86%) Report Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
3 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
3 2 (5.71%) React
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.86%) OpenID
4 1 (2.86%) PySpark
4 1 (2.86%) Quarkus
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Photography
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (25.71%) Validation
2 8 (22.86%) Agile
2 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
3 7 (20.00%) High Availability
3 7 (20.00%) Migration
3 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (17.14%) AI
4 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.14%) Data Extraction
4 6 (17.14%) Digital Innovation
4 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
4 6 (17.14%) Network Management
4 6 (17.14%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (17.14%) Programme Delivery
5 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 5 (14.29%) LLM
5 5 (14.29%) OCR
5 5 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) VBA
5 1 (2.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.43%) CCNA
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Cisco
1 6 (17.14%) F5
1 6 (17.14%) Palo Alto
2 5 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Pega
5 1 (2.86%) SAP