QA Automation Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 12 0 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% - 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £50,000 - £43,625
25th Percentile £51,250 - £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 - -
90th Percentile £61,875 - £60,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,194 4,363 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.63% 94.19% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,187 2,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +8.16%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

QA Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation in Scotland

QA Automation
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation in Scotland.

Salary trend for QA Automation in Scotland

QA Automation
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation in Scotland

QA Automation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 12 £52,500 -
QA Automation
UK

QA Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 4 (33.33%) Electronics
1 4 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
1 6 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 5 (41.67%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Software Testing
4 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (50.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
7 1 (8.33%) API Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) SDET
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) TDD
7 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 4 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform