Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

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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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 65 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 +45
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 5 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.50% 0.82% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.88% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 19
10th Percentile - £401 £410
25th Percentile £490 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -13.16% +2.70%
75th Percentile £510 £428 £500
90th Percentile - £434 £550
Scotland median daily rate £525 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +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 540 569 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.85% 93.59% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 311 500
10th Percentile £190 £195 £220
25th Percentile £406 £389 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £487
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.60% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.29% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

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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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
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