Test Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Test Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 96 108
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 5 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.61% 1.08% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.13% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 16
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile £413 £363 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -4.11%
75th Percentile £438 £435 £438
90th Percentile - £478 £619
Scotland median daily rate £375 £407 £375
% change year-on-year -7.86% +8.53% +2.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 779 1,236 1,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 95.59% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,275
10th Percentile £200 £253 £230
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in Edinburgh

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in Edinburgh

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in Edinburgh

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) ISEB
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) TDD

Test Analyst Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) SilkCentral
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) ATDD
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) V-Model
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland