ISEB Contracts in Scotland

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 156 166
Rank change year-on-year +48 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing ISEB 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.28% 1.40% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £378 £320 £391
25th Percentile £400 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -1.45% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £438 £450
90th Percentile £550 £491 £470
UK median daily rate £425 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -11.23% +6.39% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

ISEB falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 549 570 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.62% 21.33% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 372 358
10th Percentile £180 £175 £216
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.96% +9.12%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £560
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 10 23
10th Percentile £12.42 £12.71 £20.20
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.81 £23.89
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -57.07% +55.04%
75th Percentile £40.94 £43.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.20 £59.63 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ISEB in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for ISEB 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 ISEB within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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 +31 6 £513 +20.59% 2
Glasgow - 1 £375 -
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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) TestComplete
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Integration Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Defect Management
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Management
2 4 (57.14%) Test Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 2 (28.57%) VBA
2 2 (28.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle