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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 51 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing QA 22 19 33
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.54% 2.57% 3.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.86% 12.58% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 21
10th Percentile £112 £149 £325
25th Percentile £197 £268 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.07% -15.56% -12.37%
75th Percentile £566 £409 £525
90th Percentile £674 £479 £550
Scotland median daily rate £500 £430 £425
% change year-on-year +16.28% +1.18% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £12.21 £14.98 -
% change year-on-year -18.49% - -

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 148 151 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.79% 20.46% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 91 165
10th Percentile £216 £175 £220
25th Percentile £413 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -0.55% -5.53%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £563 £600 £595
Scotland median daily rate £450 £444 £467
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.98% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £23.28 £21.00 £57.80
25th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £45.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.62% +220.11%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £69.00 £62.40
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +133.64% -75.03% +242.86%

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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 4 November 2025.

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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) IPsec
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) git-flow
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Marketing
7 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Business Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) IT Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Development
5 1 (4.55%) Head of QA
5 1 (4.55%) HR Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) RESTful
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Legacy Code
3 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) Migration
3 6 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (22.73%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (22.73%) Microservices
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Time Management
6 3 (13.64%) API Design
6 3 (13.64%) API Development
6 3 (13.64%) Black-Box Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Perl
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) ISEB
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) dotdigital
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto