Test Specialist Contracts in Scotland

Test Specialist
UK > Scotland

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Specialist daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 127 162
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.090% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.095% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £442
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.47% -5.71%

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 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Specialist in Scotland

Test Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Specialist in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Test Specialist in Scotland

Test Specialist
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 Test Specialist 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
Edinburgh +5 2 - -
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Specialist 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 Test Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (50.00%) Confluent
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS

Test Specialist 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (50.00%) Confluent