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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 68
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.10% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.29% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile £463 £404 £400
25th Percentile £473 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +12.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £530 £598 £488
90th Percentile £542 £652 £503
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £438
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -3.05%

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 590 696 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.10% 85.40% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 365 627
10th Percentile £307 £223 £230
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy 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 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
1 1 (20.00%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Async-Await
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform