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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 48
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 +61
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 2 31
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.31% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.33% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 19
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £490 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £510 - £554
90th Percentile - - £608
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

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 561 601 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.47% 94.05% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 343 471
10th Percentile £193 £198 £219
25th Percentile £406 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -3.97% +0.84%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £17.29 £20.65 £14.37
25th Percentile £18.91 £21.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -32.60% +63.06%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.38 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £20.57
% change year-on-year -13.04% +11.81% +16.08%

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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA