QA Jobs in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 68 143 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.44% 6.74% 6.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 34.52% 47.51% 37.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55 19 58
10th Percentile £44,000 £38,408 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,977 £39,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +21.95% +6.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £64,458
90th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 197 301 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.86% 14.18% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 135 101 215
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,000 £34,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,251
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.50%

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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 28 April 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 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) AWS
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 3 (4.41%) SaaS
2 3 (4.41%) Serverless
3 1 (1.47%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) MySQL
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
1 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
1 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Bitbucket
1 12 (17.65%) Cypress.io
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 5 (7.35%) Selenium
3 3 (4.41%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) JDeveloper
4 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) JMeter
4 1 (1.47%) JUnit
4 1 (1.47%) Mockito
4 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 20 (29.41%) Games
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.88%) Electronics
4 4 (5.88%) Finance
4 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) QA Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Lead
3 11 (16.18%) Tester
4 10 (14.71%) QA Leader
5 9 (13.24%) Test Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Hardware Test Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) QA Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Software Tester
8 4 (5.88%) Hardware Tester
8 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.41%) QA Officer
9 3 (4.41%) Ruby Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Applications Tester
10 2 (2.94%) Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Senior
10 2 (2.94%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.12%) Playwright
2 6 (8.82%) React
3 3 (4.41%) .NET
3 3 (4.41%) .NET Framework
3 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.41%) Node.js
4 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (2.94%) CSS
4 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.94%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) Spring
5 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.47%) Web Services
5 1 (1.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) IoT
2 3 (4.41%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.47%) Life Science
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Test Automation
2 42 (61.76%) Software Testing
3 32 (47.06%) Agile
4 22 (32.35%) Code Quality
5 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (22.06%) Mentoring
7 12 (17.65%) QA Automation
7 12 (17.65%) Test Management
8 9 (13.24%) Regression Testing
9 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.82%) Microservices
10 6 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
11 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (7.35%) DevOps
11 5 (7.35%) Project Management
11 5 (7.35%) Waterfall
12 4 (5.88%) Design Patterns
12 4 (5.88%) Manual Testing
12 4 (5.88%) Open Source
12 4 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) JavaScript
1 22 (32.35%) Python
2 11 (16.18%) TypeScript
3 8 (11.76%) Java
4 5 (7.35%) C#
5 4 (5.88%) SQL
6 3 (4.41%) Bash
6 3 (4.41%) Go
6 3 (4.41%) Perl
6 3 (4.41%) Ruby
7 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.53%) ISO 9001
2 4 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.47%) GLP
3 1 (1.47%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.47%) Google