The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 73 80 97
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 13 12 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.222% 0.878% 0.504%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.273% 0.920% 0.529%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 8
Average salary £32,500 £31,250 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% +1.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £36,250 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,750 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1021 1304 1512
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.96% 95.39% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 593 952 1095
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 £26,500 £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%
Test Engineer
Scotland

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 18 (56.25%) Degree
2 11 (34.38%) Scrum
2 11 (34.38%) Selenium
2 11 (34.38%) Test Scripting
3 10 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (31.25%) Web Testing
3 10 (31.25%) QA
3 10 (31.25%) TDD
4 9 (28.13%) Java
5 8 (25.00%) PHP
5 8 (25.00%) Ant
5 8 (25.00%) Internet
5 8 (25.00%) Games
5 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (25.00%) Puppet
6 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (18.75%) Automated Testing
7 6 (18.75%) Python
7 6 (18.75%) C++
8 4 (12.50%) C#
8 4 (12.50%) SQL
8 4 (12.50%) Windows
8 4 (12.50%) Linux
8 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 4 (12.50%) Electronics
9 3 (9.375%) Mobile App
9 3 (9.375%) Mechatronics
9 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.375%) SolidWorks

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.375%) .NET
2 2 (6.250%) CSS
2 2 (6.250%) XML
2 2 (6.250%) HTML
2 2 (6.250%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.125%) jQuery
3 1 (3.125%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 8 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) AutoCAD
2 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Selenium
2 8 (25.00%) Ant
2 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.250%) Bugzilla
3 2 (6.250%) TestComplete
3 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.250%) MSBuild
4 1 (3.125%) MSTest
4 1 (3.125%) Subversion
4 1 (3.125%) InstallShield
4 1 (3.125%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (3.125%) Rational Robot
4 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.125%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (25.00%) Games
2 4 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (3.125%) German Language
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.375%) Mechatronics
1 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
1 3 (9.375%) Firmware
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.250%) iPhone
3 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.250%) Android
3 1 (3.125%) VxWorks
3 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Scrum
1 11 (34.38%) Test Scripting
2 10 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (31.25%) Web Testing
2 10 (31.25%) TDD
3 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (18.75%) Automated Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Validation
5 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Data Analysis
5 2 (6.250%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Test Management
5 2 (6.250%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (6.250%) V-Model
5 2 (6.250%) Waterfall
5 2 (6.250%) Automation Testing
6 1 (3.125%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.125%) Test Strategy
6 1 (3.125%) OpenUP
6 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) PHP
3 6 (18.75%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) C++
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.375%) VC++
5 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.375%) C
6 2 (6.250%) VBScript
6 2 (6.250%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.125%) Ruby
7 1 (3.125%) Perl
7 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Degree
2 3 (9.375%) ISEB
3 2 (6.250%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.125%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (9.375%) SolidWorks
2 2 (6.250%) JBoss
3 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle