Agile Testing Contracts in Scotland

Agile Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 164 175
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.073% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.079% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £363 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £479 £525 -
90th Percentile £526 - -
UK median daily rate £410 £438 £483
% change year-on-year -6.29% -9.33% +14.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Agile Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,914 2,534 3,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.37% 92.45% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,803 2,272
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £18.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -0.03%
75th Percentile £48.00 £50.74 £49.76
90th Percentile £61.10 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 May 2024. 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 +38 2 £539 +7.70%
Glasgow - 2 £375 - 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
3 2 (50.00%) Component Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center