QA Jobs in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 45 53 78
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +25
Permanent jobs citing QA 41 37 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.828% 2.717% 1.466%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 49.40% 40.66% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 10
Average salary £35,000 £55,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.36% +69.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £45,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £65,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
Search 7 QA jobs in Edinburgh
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 83 91 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.750% 6.681% 9.305%
Number of salaries quoted 43 62 106
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £35,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,900 £65,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Scotland

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Edinburgh QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited QA.

1 34 (39.08%) Finance
2 28 (32.18%) Degree
3 25 (28.74%) Java
4 24 (27.59%) Test Scripting
5 19 (21.84%) TDD
5 19 (21.84%) Banking
6 18 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (19.54%) Agile Software Development
7 17 (19.54%) Scrum
7 17 (19.54%) Internet
8 16 (18.39%) PHP
8 16 (18.39%) Games
8 16 (18.39%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (16.09%) Web Testing
9 14 (16.09%) Selenium
9 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
10 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (14.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
12 11 (12.64%) Ant
12 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
12 11 (12.64%) Puppet
13 10 (11.49%) HTML
13 10 (11.49%) SQL
13 10 (11.49%) CSS
14 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
14 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (10.34%) HP Quality Center
14 9 (10.34%) jQuery

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (11.49%) HTML
1 10 (11.49%) CSS
2 9 (10.34%) jQuery
3 7 (8.046%) .NET
3 7 (8.046%) HTML5
4 6 (6.897%) Sass
4 6 (6.897%) LESS
5 4 (4.598%) J2EE
6 2 (2.299%) Spring
6 2 (2.299%) JSF
6 2 (2.299%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.299%) XML
6 2 (2.299%) EJB
6 2 (2.299%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.149%) LAMP
7 1 (1.149%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.149%) XSL
7 1 (1.149%) XSLT
7 1 (1.149%) SOAP
7 1 (1.149%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 16 (18.39%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (4.598%) SAS
3 2 (2.299%) Apache
3 2 (2.299%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.299%) IIS
4 1 (1.149%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (8.046%) MS Project
2 2 (2.299%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.149%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.149%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.149%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.598%) GIS
3 2 (2.299%) MySQL
4 1 (1.149%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.149%) DB2
4 1 (1.149%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.149%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Selenium
1 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.64%) Ant
3 6 (6.897%) Git (software)
3 6 (6.897%) PhoneGap
3 6 (6.897%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 5 (5.747%) LoadRunner
5 4 (4.598%) QuickTest Pro
5 4 (4.598%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.448%) Subversion
6 3 (3.448%) Maven
7 2 (2.299%) JIRA
8 1 (1.149%) JUnit
8 1 (1.149%) WinRunner
8 1 (1.149%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.149%) Concordion
8 1 (1.149%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.149%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (39.08%) Finance
2 19 (21.84%) Banking
3 16 (18.39%) Games
4 7 (8.046%) Retail
5 6 (6.897%) Wholesale Banking
6 5 (5.747%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.448%) Legal
8 2 (2.299%) Advertising
9 1 (1.149%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.149%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.149%) Publishing
9 1 (1.149%) International Banking
9 1 (1.149%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
3 8 (9.195%) Automated Test Engineer
3 8 (9.195%) Test Analyst
3 8 (9.195%) Developer
4 7 (8.046%) Consultant
4 7 (8.046%) Test Leader
5 6 (6.897%) Front-End Developer
5 6 (6.897%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (5.747%) Risk Manager
6 5 (5.747%) Systems Manager
7 4 (4.598%) Compliance Manager
7 4 (4.598%) Governance Manager
7 4 (4.598%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.448%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (3.448%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.448%) QA Analyst
8 3 (3.448%) Quality Manager
8 3 (3.448%) QA Manager
8 3 (3.448%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.046%) Credit Risk
3 4 (4.598%) Statistics
4 3 (3.448%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.299%) FMCG
5 2 (2.299%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.299%) LIMS
6 1 (1.149%) EPoS
6 1 (1.149%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.149%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.149%) iPhone
6 1 (1.149%) Data Integration
6 1 (1.149%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.046%) Android
2 6 (6.897%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.897%) UNIX
3 4 (4.598%) Linux
4 3 (3.448%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Test Scripting
2 19 (21.84%) TDD
3 18 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (19.54%) Agile Software Development
4 17 (19.54%) Scrum
5 14 (16.09%) Web Testing
6 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (9.195%) Project Planning
8 8 (9.195%) MVC
9 7 (8.046%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (8.046%) Unit Testing
10 6 (6.897%) Test Automation
11 5 (5.747%) Performance Testing
11 5 (5.747%) System Testing
12 4 (4.598%) Time Management
12 4 (4.598%) Test Strategy
12 4 (4.598%) Automation Testing
12 4 (4.598%) Risk Management
13 3 (3.448%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.74%) Java
2 16 (18.39%) PHP
3 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.49%) SQL
5 7 (8.046%) C#
5 7 (8.046%) Python
6 1 (1.149%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.149%) Perl
6 1 (1.149%) Ruby
6 1 (1.149%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) Degree
2 8 (9.195%) ISEB
2 8 (9.195%) CISSP
2 8 (9.195%) CISA
2 8 (9.195%) CISM
3 7 (8.046%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.598%) CEH
5 2 (2.299%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.299%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.299%) Basel III
2 2 (2.299%) Basel II
3 1 (1.149%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1 (1.149%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Puppet
2 9 (10.34%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.195%) Oracle
3 3 (3.448%) VMware
3 3 (3.448%) HP
4 2 (2.299%) JBoss
5 1 (1.149%) Teradata
5 1 (1.149%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.149%) Informatica
5 1 (1.149%) IBM
5 1 (1.149%) Temenos
5 1 (1.149%) Dell
Graduate Java/HTML Consultant
Edinburgh, Scotland
Job Title:Junior Technical ConsultantLocation:EdinburghSalary:Dependant on ExperienceKey Skills - Graduate, IT/Computer Science Degree (B.Sc), JavaScript, HTML, Written and Verbal CommunicationJob type:Permanent, full-timeDP Connect...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: excellent salary + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Product Support / IT Graduate / Edinburgh / £25,000
Edinburgh, Midlothian
QA and testing of products and solutions... Technical Skills: Web Development. JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS. SQL Server and/or T-SQL. VMWare... Product Support Analyst / IT Graduate / Service...
CoreCom Consulting
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Junior Technical Consultant
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Any experience with HTML and JavaScript would be ideal however, not essential... This position also offers a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to developer their technical and...
Net Talent
Posted: 20 May 2013
.NET Software Architect - Edinburgh - £55,000
Edinburgh, Scotland
Responsibilities: Direct the design & development of multiple projects both web and desktop Define & create reusable, dependable & efficient software components in C# Support the development team to guarantee the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Software QA Manager - Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Growing organisation in central Edinburgh developing new and award winning software products looking for experienced software tester to offer role providing hands on Testing and QA services while...
Search Consultancy
Salary: Salary DOE + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
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