QA Jobs in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA 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 39 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 80 103 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.04% 5.71% 6.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 43.24% 40.87% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 66 20 63
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,579 £39,740
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,215 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57,188 £72,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,000 £69,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +31.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 185 252 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.66% 13.96% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 125 106 207
10th Percentile £25,600 £31,785 £37,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +0.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £75,756
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for QA in Edinburgh

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 12 (15.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.25%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (6.25%) SaaS
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Cypress.io
1 13 (16.25%) Selenium
2 12 (15.00%) Bitbucket
2 12 (15.00%) JIRA
3 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.00%) Git
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.25%) JMeter
5 1 (1.25%) JUnit
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) Mocha
5 1 (1.25%) Mockito
5 1 (1.25%) Postman
5 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Games
3 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.00%) Electronics
5 4 (5.00%) Finance
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) QA Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Tester
4 12 (15.00%) Lead
5 10 (12.50%) QA Leader
6 8 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Hardware Test Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Applications Tester
7 5 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Documentation Specialist
7 5 (6.25%) QA Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Hardware Tester
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
8 4 (5.00%) Software Tester
8 4 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) QA Officer
9 3 (3.75%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.75%) Playwright
2 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.00%) REST
3 4 (5.00%) Spring
3 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.75%) .NET
4 3 (3.75%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.75%) ADO
4 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.75%) Java EE
4 3 (3.75%) OpenJDK
4 3 (3.75%) React
4 3 (3.75%) SOAP
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.50%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) Web Services
6 1 (1.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) IoT
1 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.25%) Life Science
3 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) Test Automation
2 47 (58.75%) Software Testing
3 35 (43.75%) Agile
4 19 (23.75%) Code Quality
5 17 (21.25%) Mentoring
6 16 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 14 (17.50%) Regression Testing
8 12 (15.00%) QA Automation
8 12 (15.00%) Test Management
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.00%) Scrum
11 7 (8.75%) Strategic Thinking
12 6 (7.50%) Coaching
12 6 (7.50%) Video Processing
13 5 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
14 4 (5.00%) Fintech
14 4 (5.00%) Performance Testing
14 4 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (5.00%) Project Management
14 4 (5.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.50%) Java
4 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.25%) SQL
6 7 (8.75%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) ISO 9001
2 4 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GLP
3 1 (1.25%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Google
3 1 (1.25%) CyberTech