Quality Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Quality Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £344
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £350
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile - - £510
UK median daily rate £500 £360 £445
% change year-on-year +38.89% -19.06% -19.14%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,521 1,756 2,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 94.11% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,085 1,615
10th Percentile £238 £200 £231
25th Percentile £358 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +1.17%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £588 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 82 61
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.38 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.96 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.37 £18.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% +1.58% -8.54%
75th Percentile £25.73 £33.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £52.25 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Scotland

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Quality Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Quality Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 2 £525 - 2
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 2025, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS

Quality 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Ranorex
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) ETRM
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA