Agile Testing Contracts in Scotland

Agile Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Agile Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 127 161
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +9
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.090% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.10% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.70% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £558 £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £559 £475
% change year-on-year -6.12% +17.74% -4.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Agile Testing 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in Scotland

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in Scotland

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +4 1 - -
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets