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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +66
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 10 10 53
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.62% 0.55% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.64% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 32
10th Percentile £470 £404 £360
25th Percentile £490 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +2.78% -
75th Percentile - £525 £488
90th Percentile £595 £570 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

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 1,450 1,556 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.01% 86.11% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 901 1,358
10th Percentile £253 £205 £250
25th Percentile £392 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £573
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 42 53
10th Percentile £15.24 £12.57 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.35 £13.28
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +13.63% +2.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.40
90th Percentile £34.00 £41.70 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -32.03% -15.64% +25.31%

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 October 2025.

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 October 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 +9 6 £500 +21.21% 2
Glasgow -9 2 £600 +9.09% 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £550 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) MLflow
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Programme Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Test Programme Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Next.js
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe
1 1 (10.00%) Dundas
1 1 (10.00%) IBM
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce