Smoke Testing Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £650 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +38.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Smoke Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 604 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.76% 95.87% 84.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 323 429
10th Percentile £341 £241 £219
25th Percentile £407 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £556
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -0.54% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 32
10th Percentile £17.86 - £13.28
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £21.68
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% +1.50% +1.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 £27.45 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +2.41% +21.95%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Smoke Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Smoke Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Smoke Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Smoke Testing

Smoke Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland