Test Strategy Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Test Strategy
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Test Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 112 96
Rank change year-on-year -16 -16 +28
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 0.36% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £347 £474 £453
25th Percentile £397 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% - +28.50%
75th Percentile £483 - £638
90th Percentile £487 £595 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -2.64%

All Process & 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 1,829 1,548 1,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.14% 91.87% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 894 1,048
10th Percentile £288 £259 £212
25th Percentile £377 £368 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 81 60
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.55 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.30 £14.38
Median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.31% +8.80%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.99 £53.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Test Strategy job vacancy trend in Scotland

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Scotland

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Test Strategy

Test Strategy
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 29 July 2026. 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 5 £460 -16.36% 7
Edinburgh -6 2 - - 5
Test Strategy
UK

Test Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub
1 5 (71.43%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) MariaDB
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
4 1 (14.29%) Appium
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Mocha
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer in Test
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) SDET
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) System Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) IEC 62304
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 13485
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle