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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 62 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.71% 0.79% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.83% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £463 £404
25th Percentile £450 £473 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.27% +9.72%
75th Percentile £481 £530 £598
90th Percentile £493 £542 £652
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%

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 598 599 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.46% 94.78% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 297 372
10th Percentile £250 £307 £221
25th Percentile £400 £413 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +1.71% +3.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 23
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -53.68%
75th Percentile £33.69 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £63.50 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +1.77%

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP HR
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Payroll Manager
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Manager
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SDET
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace