QA Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 27 53
Rank change year-on-year -72 +26 -3
Permanent jobs citing QA 249 393 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.71% 8.58% 5.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.74% 56.14% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 145 47 154
10th Percentile £17,400 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% +21.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,500 £64,458
90th Percentile £66,500 £78,500 £70,175
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 810 700 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.06% 15.28% 16.91%
Number of salaries quoted 339 208 433
10th Percentile £22,250 £31,250 £25,625
25th Percentile £33,769 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +21.96% +5.08%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,596 £88,750 £72,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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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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Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for QA in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -134 93 £40,000 -23.81% 12
Edinburgh 0 72 £52,500 -16.00% 17
Aberdeen +7 20 £40,000 - 7
Fife - 18 £37,500 -
Lanarkshire - 10 £42,500 - 5
Dundee -5 7 £45,000 -7.46% 5
Ayrshire - 4 - -
West Lothian - 4 £15,000 -
North Lanarkshire - 4 £13,000 - 1
Highlands -6 2 £40,000 - 4
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Stirling -10 1 £35,776 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 4
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 -
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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 15 (6.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.40%) Blender
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.21%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.80%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.07%) AWS
2 38 (15.26%) Azure
3 19 (7.63%) SaaS
4 14 (5.62%) GCP
5 11 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.61%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (2.41%) Serverless
8 5 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.40%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Intranet
2 2 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.81%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.81%) Looker
2 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.41%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.41%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.01%) Power BI
5 4 (1.61%) Big Data
5 4 (1.61%) MySQL
5 4 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.44%) Cypress.io
2 24 (9.64%) JIRA
3 13 (5.22%) Selenium
4 12 (4.82%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.42%) Git
5 11 (4.42%) Maven
6 10 (4.02%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.02%) Jenkins
6 10 (4.02%) JMeter
7 9 (3.61%) Gradle
8 6 (2.41%) JDeveloper
9 4 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.61%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.40%) JUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.40%) Mockito
10 1 (0.40%) MSTest
10 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 80 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.88%) Finance
3 31 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.03%) Games
6 19 (7.63%) Marketing
7 13 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.82%) Law
9 11 (4.42%) Manufacturing
10 10 (4.02%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.61%) Legal
11 9 (3.61%) Public Sector
12 8 (3.21%) Local Government
12 8 (3.21%) Police
13 7 (2.81%) Billing
14 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.61%) Aviation
15 4 (1.61%) Electronics
15 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (17.67%) QA Engineer
2 31 (12.45%) Developer
3 28 (11.24%) Senior
4 20 (8.03%) Lead
5 18 (7.23%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.83%) Services Director
6 17 (6.83%) Test Engineer
7 16 (6.43%) Tester
8 11 (4.42%) IT Support
9 10 (4.02%) QA Leader
10 9 (3.61%) Analyst
10 9 (3.61%) Data Manager
10 9 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.61%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) QA Software Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Bid Writer
11 8 (3.21%) Hardware Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Senior Bid Writer
11 8 (3.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.84%) React
2 17 (6.83%) Playwright
3 12 (4.82%) Spring
4 11 (4.42%) CSS
4 11 (4.42%) HTML
5 10 (4.02%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.61%) .NET
6 9 (3.61%) Ext JS
6 9 (3.61%) Node.js
7 8 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.41%) Vue
9 5 (2.01%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.01%) JSON
9 5 (2.01%) RESTful
9 5 (2.01%) XML
10 4 (1.61%) DOM
11 3 (1.20%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (0.80%) MFC
12 2 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.23%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.61%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.81%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.01%) IoT
8 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.80%) PMI
10 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.40%) 3D Printing
11 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.40%) Life Science
11 1 (0.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.42%) Windows
2 7 (2.81%) Android
3 6 (2.41%) Linux
4 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.61%) Mesosphere
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.55%) Test Automation
2 71 (28.51%) Agile
3 70 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (27.71%) Software Testing
5 43 (17.27%) Mentoring
6 40 (16.06%) Code Quality
7 37 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (13.65%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.05%) DevOps
9 30 (12.05%) Project Management
10 28 (11.24%) Regression Testing
11 27 (10.84%) Strategic Thinking
12 22 (8.84%) CI/CD
13 21 (8.43%) Manual Testing
14 20 (8.03%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (8.03%) Scrum
15 19 (7.63%) Budgeting
15 19 (7.63%) Test Management
16 18 (7.23%) Microservices
17 17 (6.83%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.88%) JavaScript
2 34 (13.65%) Python
3 32 (12.85%) Java
4 28 (11.24%) SQL
5 14 (5.62%) C#
6 12 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.21%) C++
8 7 (2.81%) Bash
9 6 (2.41%) Go
9 6 (2.41%) Perl
9 6 (2.41%) PHP
9 6 (2.41%) Ruby
10 5 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.61%) Swift
12 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) VB
14 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.40%) VB6
Qualifications
1 33 (13.25%) Degree
2 8 (3.21%) DBS Check
3 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.01%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.61%) ISEB
5 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.20%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) ACCA
7 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) ISO 9001
2 8 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.41%) GMP
4 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) GLP
System Software
1 7 (2.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 8 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.61%) Ansible
2 4 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
2 4 (1.61%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) SCCM
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.02%) Google
3 9 (3.61%) TOWER Software
4 8 (3.21%) NEC
5 6 (2.41%) Oracle
6 4 (1.61%) Apple
6 4 (1.61%) VMware
7 3 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.80%) Sage
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) TP-LINK
9 1 (0.40%) Xero