QA Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 200 202
Rank change year-on-year -40 +2 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 44 21 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.66% 0.44% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.49% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 30 9 32
10th Percentile £33,750 £51,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £65,000 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +55.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £54,000 £77,500 £56,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,502 4,276 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.27% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,326 2,955
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,785 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +50 18 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Glasgow -106 9 - - 1
Fife - 9 £37,500 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 £45,000 -
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, QA 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 Scotland region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) QA
2 41 (93.18%) Test Automation
3 29 (65.91%) Software Testing
4 25 (56.82%) Code Quality
5 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (38.64%) Agile
7 15 (34.09%) Games
7 15 (34.09%) Manual Testing
8 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (29.55%) SDLC
9 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
9 13 (29.55%) Cypress.io
9 13 (29.55%) Python
10 11 (25.00%) SQL
10 11 (25.00%) Java
10 11 (25.00%) TDD
10 11 (25.00%) Test Scripting
10 11 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
11 10 (22.73%) Cucumber
11 10 (22.73%) Spring
11 10 (22.73%) Law
11 10 (22.73%) JMeter
11 10 (22.73%) Microservices
11 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
11 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
12 9 (20.45%) Verification and Validation
12 9 (20.45%) BlazeMeter

QA Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Cypress.io
2 10 (22.73%) Cucumber
2 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) JMeter
3 9 (20.45%) Gradle
3 9 (20.45%) JIRA
3 9 (20.45%) Maven
4 1 (2.27%) JUnit
4 1 (2.27%) Mockito
4 1 (2.27%) MSTest
4 1 (2.27%) Postman
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) TestComplete
General
1 15 (34.09%) Games
2 14 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (22.73%) Law
5 9 (20.45%) Finance
5 9 (20.45%) Marketing
6 4 (9.09%) Aviation
6 4 (9.09%) Electronics
7 1 (2.27%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Spring
1 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 9 (20.45%) Ext JS
2 9 (20.45%) React
3 1 (2.27%) Node.js
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) pytest
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
3 1 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Market Risk
2 7 (15.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (93.18%) Test Automation
2 29 (65.91%) Software Testing
3 25 (56.82%) Code Quality
4 17 (38.64%) Agile
5 15 (34.09%) Manual Testing
6 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (29.55%) SDLC
8 11 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (25.00%) TDD
8 11 (25.00%) Test Scripting
9 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
9 10 (22.73%) Microservices
10 9 (20.45%) Community of Practice
10 9 (20.45%) Operational Stability
10 9 (20.45%) Regression Testing
10 9 (20.45%) Risk Management
10 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
10 9 (20.45%) Test Planning
10 9 (20.45%) Validation
10 9 (20.45%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (29.55%) Python
3 11 (25.00%) Java
3 11 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) C
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.27%) Degree
1 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 4 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) TOWER Software