Quality Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Quality Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 2 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% - 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £349
25th Percentile £513 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 - £538
90th Percentile - - £544
Scotland median daily rate £525 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Edinburgh

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in Edinburgh

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Quality Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS

Quality Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Ranorex
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) ETRM
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA