The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Test Engineer
Rank 84 - 99
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 8 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.757% - 0.130%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.793% - 0.136%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £31,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1009 1284 1472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.46% 95.82% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 587 951 1062
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Test Engineer
Scotland

Senior Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Senior Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Senior Test Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Senior Test Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Scrum
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) QA
2 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) Web Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Games
2 6 (60.00%) Internet
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) Ant
2 6 (60.00%) Puppet
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Firmware
4 2 (20.00%) Electronics
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) VBScript
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) TestComplete
4 2 (20.00%) V-Model
4 2 (20.00%) Test Management
4 2 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing

Senior Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Senior Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Senior Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Ant
1 6 (60.00%) Selenium
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) TestComplete
General
1 6 (60.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Web Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) V-Model
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) VBScript
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Puppet
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The successful Senior Automated Test Engineer will be experienced in the following areas; -Testing within an Agile environment -Design and development of automated tests and systems using a...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + top package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
HTML/XML, JavaScript, JQuery and CSS knowledge. -Experience of writing Coded UI tests in C# or VB.NET. -SQL Server experience (Administration and T-SQL) -Microsoft Systems and...
MBN Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Unspecified £ Negotiable on Experience
Posted: 15 May 2013