QA Contracts in Perthshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Perthshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing QA 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Perthshire 14.29% 8.70% 1.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 40.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +37.48%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £488
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £456 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.39% -5.26% +4.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Perthshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 42.86% 21.74% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £559 £415
25th Percentile £563 £628 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £691 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +38.25% +45.37%
75th Percentile £588 £718 £534
90th Percentile - £722 £558
Scotland median daily rate £455 £436 £475
% change year-on-year +4.36% -8.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.88
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £22.63
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.36 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.92% -31.13% -41.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Perthshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Perthshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Perthshire.

Daily rate trend for QA in Perthshire

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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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (100.00%) QA Manager
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