Test Specialist Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Specialist
Scotland > Edinburgh

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Specialist daily rate in Edinburgh.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 70 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.25% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.26% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Test Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Specialist in Edinburgh

Test Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Test Specialist in Edinburgh

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (50.00%) Confluent
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS

Test Specialist Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (50.00%) Confluent