Software Testing Contracts in Scotland

Software Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software 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 102 117 97
Rank change year-on-year +15 -20 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 14 12 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.54% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.61% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 55
10th Percentile £308 £436 £130
25th Percentile £335 £468 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +4.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £450 £543 £531
90th Percentile £500 £673 £695
UK median daily rate £444 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -2.42% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.83
25th Percentile - - £15.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £16.25
75th Percentile - - £27.70
90th Percentile - - £46.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £52.74
% change year-on-year -1.60% +18.52% +7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software 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%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software 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 Software 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 +4 6 £421 -15.17% 8
Edinburgh +2 4 £475 -11.79% 17
Perthshire - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £400 - 1
Software Testing
UK

Software 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DB2
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JUnit
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) LabVIEW
4 1 (7.14%) MSTest
4 1 (7.14%) NUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) Ranorex
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Release Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) J2EE
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) FPGA
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Sybase
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) DocuSign
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow