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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 97 104
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +46
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.75% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.87% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 29
10th Percentile £470 £408 £356
25th Percentile £490 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -3.05%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £488
90th Percentile £595 £635 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -12.04%

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 1,460 1,608 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.36% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 978 1,483
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 46 58
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -10.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.96
90th Percentile £29.80 £51.50 £75.03
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 5 £500 +1.27% 4
Glasgow -21 3 £550 +10.00% 2
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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Test Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Test Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Test Programme Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) J2EE
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Next.js
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) OpenCV
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 1 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Test Planning
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Dundas
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce