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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.39% 0.63% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.68% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £466 £405
25th Percentile - £480 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +19.12% -
75th Percentile - £530 £569
90th Percentile - £542 £640
Scotland median daily rate £490 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +14.49%

All Process & 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 647 591 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.69% 93.66% 84.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 293 371
10th Percentile £263 £313 £206
25th Percentile £401 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £538
90th Percentile £600 £586 £646
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 21
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £13.21
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.54 £17.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% -0.72% -65.71%
75th Percentile £55.63 £39.40 £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £62.38 £55.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.68 £19.99 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.53% +5.18% -0.94%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer in Test
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) SDET
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace