Test Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Test Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Test Engineer salary in Scotland is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 185 184
Rank change year-on-year -57 -1 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 40 30 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.58% 0.70% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.78% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26 19 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,577 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,526 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +32.28% +13.46%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,833 £54,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £64,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £53,246 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.49% +6.49% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Scotland

Test Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +27 16 £50,000 -16.34% 5
Glasgow -102 7 £40,000 -5.88% 8
Fife -6 6 - -
Aberdeen - 6 £35,000 - 2
West Lothian -2 4 £45,000 -6.25% 1
Argyll and Bute - 1 £44,000 -
Test Engineer
UK

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (85.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (60.00%) Agile
3 21 (52.50%) QA
4 20 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 19 (47.50%) JIRA
6 17 (42.50%) Git
7 15 (37.50%) Selenium
8 14 (35.00%) Test Management
8 14 (35.00%) SQL
8 14 (35.00%) Regression Testing
8 14 (35.00%) Confluence
8 14 (35.00%) Bitbucket
9 11 (27.50%) DevOps
10 10 (25.00%) Functional Testing
10 10 (25.00%) Visual Studio
10 10 (25.00%) Java
11 9 (22.50%) Open Source
11 9 (22.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
12 8 (20.00%) Degree
12 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (20.00%) ISO 9001
12 8 (20.00%) Finance
13 7 (17.50%) Scrum
13 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
13 7 (17.50%) Cypress.io
13 7 (17.50%) Azure
13 7 (17.50%) IoT
14 6 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 14 (35.00%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) WildFly
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) JIRA
2 17 (42.50%) Git
3 15 (37.50%) Selenium
4 14 (35.00%) Bitbucket
5 10 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 7 (17.50%) Cypress.io
7 6 (15.00%) MSTest
8 4 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (10.00%) WebDriver
9 3 (7.50%) Appium
9 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
10 1 (2.50%) GitLab
10 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
10 1 (2.50%) JMeter
10 1 (2.50%) Mocha
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Electronics
4 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) CSS
1 4 (10.00%) DOM
1 4 (10.00%) HTML
1 4 (10.00%) Playwright
2 3 (7.50%) ADO
2 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.50%) Java EE
2 3 (7.50%) OpenJDK
2 3 (7.50%) REST
2 3 (7.50%) SOAP
2 3 (7.50%) Spring
2 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.50%) Jest
3 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) IoT
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (60.00%) Agile
3 20 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 14 (35.00%) Regression Testing
4 14 (35.00%) Test Management
5 11 (27.50%) DevOps
6 10 (25.00%) Functional Testing
7 9 (22.50%) Open Source
8 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (17.50%) Scrum
10 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (15.00%) Energy Management
10 6 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
10 6 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (12.50%) API Testing
11 5 (12.50%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.00%) ISEB
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) HNC
5 1 (2.50%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) QA
2 8 (20.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) CyberTech
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce