QA Contracts in Scotland

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing QA 63 64 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.94% 2.39% 2.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.15% 11.96% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 56
10th Percentile £313 £239 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% +11.28%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £538
90th Percentile £750 £623 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £520
% change year-on-year -1.57% -2.31% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £13.52 - £33.50
Median hourly rate £14.98 - £54.00
75th Percentile £15.23 - £56.00
90th Percentile £20.90 - £57.10
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £22.49 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.74% -51.12% +135.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 390 535 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.18% 19.96% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 430 511
10th Percentile £182 £179 £225
25th Percentile £313 £395 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £523 £542 £545
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 20
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.56 £12.28
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.17 £16.09
Median hourly rate £14.98 £18.13 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% -39.00% +32.07%
75th Percentile £20.41 £28.90 £44.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.20 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £23.09 £38.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -39.24% +37.04% +32.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA 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 QA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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 +19 26 £550 +8.91% 27
Glasgow +2 11 £436 -0.34% 20
Dundee +9 10 - - 4
Ross-shire - 5 - -
Perthshire +10 2 £525 +10.53%
West Lothian - 2 £318 - 3
Lanarkshire - 2 £388 - 7
Fife - 1 - -
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UK

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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 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.59%) AWS
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) LAN
1 3 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) IPsec
2 1 (1.59%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
2 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.17%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.59%) Informix
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.17%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.17%) ERwin
3 2 (3.17%) Selenium
3 2 (3.17%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (1.59%) Appium
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Manufacturing
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.11%) Finance
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Banking
7 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) QA Officer
3 6 (9.52%) Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.76%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Management Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Release Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Service Management Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) REST
1 5 (7.94%) SOAP
2 4 (6.35%) .NET
2 4 (6.35%) Playwright
2 4 (6.35%) SailPoint
2 4 (6.35%) WinForms
2 4 (6.35%) WPF
3 2 (3.17%) Middleware
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.59%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.76%) iPad
3 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Agile
2 9 (14.29%) Coaching
2 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 8 (12.70%) Data Modelling
3 8 (12.70%) DevOps
3 8 (12.70%) SDLC
3 8 (12.70%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (9.52%) Test Scripting
5 5 (7.94%) Contextual Inquiry
5 5 (7.94%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
5 5 (7.94%) Usability Testing
5 5 (7.94%) User Research
5 5 (7.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (6.35%) Configuration Management
6 4 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (6.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.70%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) C#
2 4 (6.35%) VB
2 4 (6.35%) VB6
3 2 (3.17%) Java
3 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) C++
4 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) CCNA
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
1 5 (7.94%) WCAG
2 3 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) CyberArk
3 4 (6.35%) Infragistics
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) HP
4 2 (3.17%) IDERA
4 2 (3.17%) Informatica
4 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Ariba
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Commvault
5 1 (1.59%) F5
5 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) SAP