Test Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 105 115
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Management 8 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.97% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.57% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £497 £444 £350
25th Percentile £505 £481 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% +13.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £628 £534 £469
90th Percentile £647 £556 £548
Scotland median daily rate £539 £520 £391
% change year-on-year +3.56% +32.99% -2.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Management 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 724 1,228 1,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.08% 95.19% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 879 1,254
10th Percentile £230 £252 £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 £558
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 18
10th Percentile £15.10 £14.07 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -41.75% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Edinburgh

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Edinburgh

Test Management
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 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Test Manager
2 4 (50.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Defect Management
2 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Scalability Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Usability Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle