QA Contracts in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 39 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +15
Contract jobs citing QA 28 33 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.48% 4.05% 3.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.72% 15.87% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 33
10th Percentile - £258 £258
25th Percentile £148 £297 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £478 £750 £588
90th Percentile £515 - £670
Scotland median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £21.64 -
% change year-on-year -10.51% - -

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 142 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.72% 25.52% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 280
10th Percentile £184 £219 £224
25th Percentile £354 £348 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.88% +13.82%
75th Percentile £534 £571 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.14 £51.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -63.49% +13.51%
75th Percentile £38.79 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for QA in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Edinburgh

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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 10 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (10.71%) Confluence
4 1 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.57%) CMS
4 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) IaaS
5 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) MPLS
2 1 (3.57%) SDH
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.29%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Postman
3 4 (14.29%) Selenium
4 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) Subversion
4 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
4 3 (10.71%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.57%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) MSTest
5 1 (3.57%) NUnit
5 1 (3.57%) Ranorex
General
1 22 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (32.14%) Finance
5 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
7 1 (3.57%) Electronics
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Exchange Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Exchange Support
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) ETL Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support
6 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Support
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Java RMI
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Pandas
2 1 (3.57%) Playwright
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) SOAP
2 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
2 1 (3.57%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Client/Server
1 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Migration
4 8 (28.57%) Validation
5 7 (25.00%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) ETL
5 7 (25.00%) Time Management
6 6 (21.43%) Software Delivery
6 6 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) Data Transformation
7 5 (17.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) C#
2 4 (14.29%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 3 (10.71%) VBA
3 3 (10.71%) VBScript
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ISEB
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) HNC
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (10.71%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
1 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Citrix
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Nokia