Test Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 70 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Management 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.76% 0.84% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £421 £497 -
25th Percentile £434 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £556 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% - -
75th Percentile £528 £628 -
90th Percentile £534 £647 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £526 £438
% change year-on-year -0.10% +20.11% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Management 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 620 713 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.51% 85.19% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 396 704
10th Percentile £265 £208 £213
25th Percentile £413 £355 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £538
90th Percentile £589 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
% change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -31.75%

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Strategy Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens