QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 146
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 +32
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £416 - £403
25th Percentile £441 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% -10.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £541 - £447
90th Percentile £569 - £453
UK median daily rate £463 £439 £445
% change year-on-year +5.41% -1.40% -9.18%

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 1,447 1,748 2,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.88% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 1,054 1,513
10th Percentile £220 £200 £250
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £670 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 72 61
10th Percentile £16.14 £12.31 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +2.71% -6.24%
75th Percentile £26.21 £24.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £60.63 £52.05 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

QA Engineer
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 QA Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +5 2 £400 +5.26% 1
Perthshire - 1 £575 -
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, QA Engineer 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 QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins

QA Engineer 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) MSTest
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Ranorex
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
1 2 (66.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA