Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Test Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 65 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +62
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 6 8 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.98% 0.99% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.15% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 22
10th Percentile £463 £403 £401
25th Percentile £473 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -6.85% -1.35%
75th Percentile £530 £563 £488
90th Percentile £542 £638 £549
Scotland median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Test Strategy 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 582 695 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.63% 86.12% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 370 551
10th Percentile £303 £213 £208
25th Percentile £413 £342 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £600 £601 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.27 £12.56
25th Percentile - £16.50 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -48.24% +125.76%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £48.84 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
% change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.56%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Strategy

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Test Strategy

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Tricentis qTest
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) A/B Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Async-Await
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform