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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 103 126
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 6 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% 0.87% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.00% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £520 £453 £380
25th Percentile - £485 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £428
Median % change year-on-year - +28.50% -7.46%
75th Percentile - £638 £494
90th Percentile £595 £663 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -6.98%

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 1,574 1,800 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.26% 86.83% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,105 1,708
10th Percentile £256 £213 £254
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -3.37% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £600 £643 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 89 62
10th Percentile £16.43 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +28.50% -59.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £50.48 £61.10 £60.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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
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

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 3 July 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 -3 4 £550 -1.12% 22
Glasgow -12 2 £550 +12.24% 20
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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) OOD
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle