Software Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 74 104
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 7 36 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.86% 2.78% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.92% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 27 17
10th Percentile £434 £407 £320
25th Percentile £466 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £673 £509 £550
90th Percentile £742 £541 £576
Scotland median daily rate £498 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +4.84% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.46
25th Percentile - - £49.26
Median hourly rate - - £52.81
75th Percentile - - £55.39
90th Percentile - - £55.61
Scotland median hourly rate - £16.25 £54.50
% change year-on-year - -70.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) SOA
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) V-Model
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) VBA
1 2 (28.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISEB
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center