Test Strategy Contracts in Scotland

Test Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Test Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Strategy 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 112 107 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 4 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.99% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 1.12% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 29
10th Percentile £436 - £380
25th Percentile £477 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +15.39% +2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £609 £550
90th Percentile - £654 £638
UK median daily rate £472 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.10% - +1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Test Strategy 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%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Scotland

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Scotland

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Scotland

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Scotland

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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 Strategy 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 +3 2 £454 -7.35% 6
Edinburgh -12 2 £550 +2.14% 6
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) DocuSign
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft