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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing QA 24 24 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.92% 3.90% 4.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.79% 15.89% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 25
10th Percentile £315 - £264
25th Percentile £441 £148 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £150 £425
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -64.71% -21.84%
75th Percentile £599 £400 £575
90th Percentile £620 £488 £750
Scotland median daily rate £565 £400 £418
% change year-on-year +41.25% -4.19% -16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.65 £15.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -15.67% -66.53% -

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 174 151 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.38% 24.51% 27.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 95 161
10th Percentile £153 £177 £219
25th Percentile £283 £321 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.39% -4.95%
75th Percentile £565 £531 £538
90th Percentile £680 £633 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £457
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 7
10th Percentile £17.23 £18.40 £20.81
25th Percentile £30.13 £23.49 £41.56
Median hourly rate £53.75 £48.68 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -19.55% +166.70%
75th Percentile £64.00 £71.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £73.20 £73.50 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £48.68 £22.87
% change year-on-year +7.86% +112.83% +61.91%

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 12 February 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (8.33%) GIS
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (8.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.17%) git-flow
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) Subversion
4 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (12.50%) Retail
5 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
7 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Business Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) GIS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) GIS Technician
5 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) React
2 2 (8.33%) Spring
2 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) JMS
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Photography
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (29.17%) AI
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.83%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (20.83%) Validation
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Data Extraction
7 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.67%) LLM
7 4 (16.67%) OCR
7 4 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Wealth Management
8 3 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) VBA
6 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) ISEB
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Google
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks