System Testing Contracts in Scotland

System Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 115 144
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +25
Contract jobs citing System Testing 16 5 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 0.24% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.28% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile £378 £408 £433
25th Percentile £404 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -5.06% +16.18%
75th Percentile £567 £555 £500
90th Percentile £577 £664 £565
UK median daily rate £575 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

System 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 1,607 1,782 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.18% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,111 1,747
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £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 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 69 57
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.64 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +10.55% -52.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.83% +58.73%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Scotland

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Scotland

System 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 System Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 12 £425 +6.25% 4
Edinburgh +10 4 £500 -31.03% 3
System Testing
UK

System 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Finacle
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) GIS
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Private Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Back Office
4 2 (12.50%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Integration Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Consulting Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Payroll Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) J2EE
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
5 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Test Management
6 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) Perl
1 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) SAP
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Avaloq
3 3 (18.75%) Temenos
4 2 (12.50%) Workday
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft