Software Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing 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 63 65 77
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 7 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.86% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.97% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 26
10th Percentile £423 £434 £410
25th Percentile £438 £466 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +13.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £673 £510
90th Percentile £528 £742 £541
Scotland median daily rate £400 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -19.68% +4.84% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.25
% change year-on-year - - -70.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software 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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) LabVIEW
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) FPGA
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETRM
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle