Exploratory Testing Contracts in Scotland

Exploratory Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory 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 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £404
25th Percentile £513 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £506
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.81%
75th Percentile £538 - £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £488 £445 £463
% change year-on-year +9.48% -3.72% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Exploratory 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%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Scotland

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in Scotland

Exploratory 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 Exploratory 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 - 1 £525 - 1
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
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%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETRM
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA