QA Engineer Contracts in Perthshire

Quality Assurance Engineer
Scotland > Perthshire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Perthshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Perthshire 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £380 £440
% change year-on-year +38.16% -13.64% +0.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Perthshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Perthshire. 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 Perthshire with a recognized job title 5 23 69
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 71.43% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 59
10th Percentile £578 £415 £463
25th Percentile £600 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £699 £570
90th Percentile £723 £719 £610
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £32.91
25th Percentile - - £50.97
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - £67.90
Scotland median hourly rate £19.71 £19.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.01% -49.43%

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Perthshire

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, QA Engineer 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 Perthshire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) ETRM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Perthshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETRM
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA