Manual Testing Contracts in Scotland

Manual Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual 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 112 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile £281 - £375
25th Percentile £342 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £491 - £513
90th Percentile £519 - £575
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Manual 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%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual 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 Manual 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
Glasgow - 2 £346 - 1
Argyll and Bute - 1 £400 -
Edinburgh - 1 £525 - 4
Manual Testing
UK

Manual 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) V-Model
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP