Test Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Test Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Test Engineer salary in Glasgow is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 111 99
Rank change year-on-year -111 -12 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 16 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.15% 1.02% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 1.19% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £33,800 £38,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £33,875 £39,375 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -4.49% +11.25%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,125
90th Percentile £43,250 - £51,250
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,860 1,340 1,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.02% 85.84% 98.06%
Number of salaries quoted 838 685 901
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,225 £77,500 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Glasgow

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 Glasgow region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Appium
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (16.67%) Protractor
5 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Appium
4 1 (16.67%) Protractor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce