Test Specialist Contracts in Scotland

Test Specialist
UK > Scotland

As of 5 May 2024, 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 166 172
Rank change year-on-year +42 +6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.092% 0.036% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.037% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £453 £462 £473
% change year-on-year -2.06% -2.22% +11.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,054 2,677 3,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.30% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,920 2,393
10th Percentile £200 £232 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £554 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.90 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -18.99% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.13 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 2024. 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 +42 2 - -
Test Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud

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 1 (50.00%) 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%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) StreamSets