Developer in Test Contracts in Scotland

Developer in Test
UK > Scotland

The median Developer in Test daily rate in Scotland is £466, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 116 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 2 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.096% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.10% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £458 £496 £450
25th Percentile £460 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £470 £499 £488
90th Percentile £470 £500 £495
UK median daily rate £438 £486 £575
% change year-on-year -9.89% -15.57% +12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,553 1,970 2,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.67% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,204 1,758
10th Percentile £233 £200 £250
25th Percentile £358 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 128 54
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.19 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.71 £19.50 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +4.19% -50.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £57.50 £52.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £64.40
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in Scotland

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in Scotland

Developer in Test
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 Developer in Test within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Glasgow -15 2 £466 -6.38% 2
Developer in Test
UK

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 23 June 2025, Developer in Test 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 Scotland region featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Developer in Test Skill Set
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle