QA Jobs in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Scotland region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 55 75 70
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -5
Permanent jobs citing QA 112 86 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 3.559% 2.489% 2.698%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 46.86% 40.38% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45 66 58
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,200 £32,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
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All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 239 213 309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 7.595% 6.165% 8.869%
Number of salaries quoted 124 143 231
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £36,800
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,000 £57,150
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Scotland QA Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Scotland QA Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland QA Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -3 47 £50,000 +42.85%
Edinburgh +8 41 £35,000 -36.36%
Aberdeen -3 9 £48,750 -7.14%
West Lothian - 7 - -
Dundee - 4 £25,000 -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing QA also 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 that cited QA.

1 81 (34.03%) SQL
1 81 (34.03%) Finance
2 74 (31.09%) Degree
3 69 (28.99%) Java
4 68 (28.57%) Banking
5 46 (19.33%) Investment Banking
6 44 (18.49%) QuickTest Pro
7 39 (16.39%) UNIX
7 39 (16.39%) Linux
8 37 (15.55%) Scrum
9 36 (15.13%) Agile Software Development
9 36 (15.13%) .NET
9 36 (15.13%) Test Automation
10 34 (14.29%) TDD
10 34 (14.29%) Selenium
11 33 (13.87%) Oracle
12 32 (13.45%) Test Scripting
13 31 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (12.61%) Software Testing
15 29 (12.18%) C#
15 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
16 27 (11.34%) Windows
16 27 (11.34%) Games
17 24 (10.08%) T-SQL
18 23 (9.664%) C++
18 23 (9.664%) Jenkins
19 22 (9.244%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 22 (9.244%) Internet
19 22 (9.244%) Data Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing QA also 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 that cited QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (15.13%) .NET
2 21 (8.824%) J2EE
3 20 (8.403%) XML
4 14 (5.882%) CSS
4 14 (5.882%) HTML
5 12 (5.042%) XML Schema
6 9 (3.782%) jQuery
6 9 (3.782%) Web Services
7 8 (3.361%) HTML5
8 7 (2.941%) SOAP
9 6 (2.521%) Spring
9 6 (2.521%) JMS
9 6 (2.521%) Sass
9 6 (2.521%) LESS
10 5 (2.101%) WebSphere
11 4 (1.681%) ASP.NET
12 3 (1.261%) Spring MVC
12 3 (1.261%) WSDL
12 3 (1.261%) JDBC
12 3 (1.261%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 21 (8.824%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (5.882%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.782%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (2.521%) Apache
5 4 (1.681%) SAS
5 4 (1.681%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.681%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (1.261%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 3 (1.261%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (1.261%) WebSphere Process Server
7 2 (0.840%) IIS
8 1 (0.420%) MQSeries
Applications
1 12 (5.042%) MS Project
2 7 (2.941%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.261%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.261%) MS Office
3 3 (1.261%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.261%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.840%) Siebel Analytics
3 1 (0.420%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.420%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.244%) Internet
2 5 (2.101%) NAS
2 5 (2.101%) SAN
3 3 (1.261%) Modbus
3 3 (1.261%) CDMA
3 3 (1.261%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.840%) HTTP
5 1 (0.420%) Intranet
5 1 (0.420%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.403%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.042%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
4 6 (2.521%) GIS
5 3 (1.261%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.261%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.840%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.840%) MySQL
6 2 (0.840%) EDMS
6 2 (0.840%) VLDB
6 2 (0.840%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.840%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.420%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.420%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.420%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.420%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.420%) DTS
7 1 (0.420%) DB2
Development Applications
1 44 (18.49%) QuickTest Pro
2 34 (14.29%) Selenium
3 23 (9.664%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.723%) Ant
5 15 (6.303%) LoadRunner
6 12 (5.042%) JUnit
6 12 (5.042%) FitNesse
7 9 (3.782%) JIRA
8 7 (2.941%) Git (software)
8 7 (2.941%) Subversion
9 6 (2.521%) PhoneGap
9 6 (2.521%) Appcelerator Titanium
10 5 (2.101%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.101%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.681%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.261%) Maven
13 2 (0.840%) Hudson
13 2 (0.840%) JBehave
14 1 (0.420%) Concordion
14 1 (0.420%) JSUnit
General
1 81 (34.03%) Finance
2 68 (28.57%) Banking
3 46 (19.33%) Investment Banking
4 27 (11.34%) Games
5 8 (3.361%) Legal
6 7 (2.941%) Retail
7 6 (2.521%) Wholesale Banking
8 5 (2.101%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.681%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.261%) Japanese Language
10 3 (1.261%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.261%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.261%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.261%) Electronics
11 2 (0.840%) Advertising
11 2 (0.840%) Front Office
11 2 (0.840%) Back Office
12 1 (0.420%) International Banking
12 1 (0.420%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.420%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (19.75%) Analyst
2 35 (14.71%) Developer
3 23 (9.664%) Test Analyst
4 22 (9.244%) Tester
5 19 (7.983%) SQL Database Developer
5 19 (7.983%) Database Developer
5 19 (7.983%) SQL Developer
6 16 (6.723%) QA Test Analyst
6 16 (6.723%) QA Analyst
7 15 (6.303%) QA Engineer
8 13 (5.462%) Test Engineer
8 13 (5.462%) Performance Engineer
9 11 (4.622%) Test Leader
9 11 (4.622%) QA Manager
10 9 (3.782%) Agile Tester
10 9 (3.782%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (3.782%) Software Tester
10 9 (3.782%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.782%) Senior Tester
11 8 (3.361%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.462%) Derivative
2 11 (4.622%) Computer Science
2 11 (4.622%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.202%) Reference Data
4 7 (2.941%) Equity Derivative
4 7 (2.941%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.521%) Equities
5 6 (2.521%) Firmware
6 5 (2.101%) Symmetrix DMX
6 5 (2.101%) Symmetrix
6 5 (2.101%) Replication
7 4 (1.681%) Statistics
7 4 (1.681%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.261%) SCADA
8 3 (1.261%) VHDL
9 2 (0.840%) Economics
9 2 (0.840%) Blackberry
9 2 (0.840%) LIMS
9 2 (0.840%) Mathematics
9 2 (0.840%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.39%) UNIX
1 39 (16.39%) Linux
2 27 (11.34%) Windows
3 8 (3.361%) Android
4 7 (2.941%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.261%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.261%) AIX
5 3 (1.261%) Solaris
6 1 (0.420%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (15.55%) Scrum
2 36 (15.13%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (15.13%) Test Automation
3 34 (14.29%) TDD
4 32 (13.45%) Test Scripting
5 31 (13.03%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (12.61%) Software Testing
7 22 (9.244%) Data Management
8 19 (7.983%) Risk Management
8 19 (7.983%) Web Testing
8 19 (7.983%) Data Transformation
9 17 (7.143%) Performance Testing
9 17 (7.143%) Release Management
10 15 (6.303%) Change Management
10 15 (6.303%) Configuration Management
10 15 (6.303%) ETL
11 12 (5.042%) Automated Testing
11 12 (5.042%) Unit Testing
12 11 (4.622%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.03%) SQL
2 69 (28.99%) Java
3 29 (12.18%) C#
4 24 (10.08%) T-SQL
5 23 (9.664%) C++
6 21 (8.824%) PHP
7 16 (6.723%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.882%) Python
9 9 (3.782%) Ruby
10 5 (2.101%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.101%) Perl
11 4 (1.681%) VB
12 3 (1.261%) XPath
12 3 (1.261%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.261%) C
13 2 (0.840%) VBA
14 1 (0.420%) Groovy
14 1 (0.420%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 74 (31.09%) Degree
2 16 (6.723%) ISEB
3 14 (5.882%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.361%) CISA
4 8 (3.361%) CISM
4 8 (3.361%) CISSP
5 4 (1.681%) CEH
5 4 (1.681%) CCNP
5 4 (1.681%) CCDA
5 4 (1.681%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.261%) CSQA
6 3 (1.261%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.840%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.840%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.840%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.244%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (1.681%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.261%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.840%) Basel II
4 2 (0.840%) Basel III
5 1 (0.420%) SLA
5 1 (0.420%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 4 (1.681%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.420%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (7.983%) HP Quality Center
2 16 (6.723%) Puppet
3 5 (2.101%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 33 (13.87%) Oracle
2 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.143%) Sybase
4 13 (5.462%) HP
4 13 (5.462%) Informatica
4 13 (5.462%) IBM
5 9 (3.782%) Cisco
6 6 (2.521%) Remedy
7 5 (2.101%) Brocade
7 5 (2.101%) NetApp
7 5 (2.101%) StorageTek
7 5 (2.101%) EMC
7 5 (2.101%) Sun
8 4 (1.681%) Symantec
9 3 (1.261%) Business Objects
9 3 (1.261%) VMware
10 2 (0.840%) JBoss
10 2 (0.840%) Siebel
11 1 (0.420%) Cadis
11 1 (0.420%) Tradeweb
Software Engineer
Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire
Working on a number of challenging and varied collaborative projects, you will be expected to have a solid foundation in .net development and ideally experience of working within...
Search Consultancy
Salary: benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Graduate Java/HTML Consultant
Edinburgh, Scotland
Job Title:Junior Technical ConsultantLocation:EdinburghSalary:Dependant on ExperienceKey Skills - Graduate, IT/Computer Science Degree (B.Sc), JavaScript, HTML, Written and Verbal CommunicationJob type:Permanent, full-timeDP Connect...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: excellent salary + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Senior Agile Business Analyst - BA - Agile Business Analyst
Aberdeen, Scotland
You will promote the Agile Methodology throughout the process in order to ensure continuous improvement within the system. You'll be working alongside a like-minded team and...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Senior Agile Business Analyst - BA - Agile Business Analyst
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
You will promote the Agile Methodology throughout the process in order to ensure continuous improvement within the system... You'll be a passionate, motivated, self-driven and ambitious...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Product Support / IT Graduate / Edinburgh / £25,000
Edinburgh, Midlothian
QA and testing of products and solutions... Technical Skills: Web Development. JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS. SQL Server and/or T-SQL. VMWare... Product Support Analyst / IT Graduate / Service...
CoreCom Consulting
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Natural Language Engineer
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
D2T builds software systems which generate English summaries of complex data set; these systems combine sophisticated analytics with Natural Language Generation (NLG).Our team is led by those...
Involve HR LLP
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Implementation Consultant
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Knowledge of programming languages such as Java and Perl is required for the role as is a background in LINUX shall scripting, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL, PLSQL) and source...
Search Consultancy
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Junior Technical Consultant
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Any experience with HTML and JavaScript would be ideal however, not essential... This position also offers a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to developer their technical and...
Net Talent
Posted: 20 May 2013
Software Tester (iSO / Android / Automated Testing)
Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Strathclyde,...
c) You will also be expected to interact closely with software and geology specialists in their company as you help to develop this important role.ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:...
Easy Web Recruitment
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
Software Tester (iSO / Android / Automated Testing)
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
They are actively expanding the company and are looking for a Software Testing Engineer to help develop QA and automated testing procedures for their next generation Move product.....
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
.NET Software Architect - Edinburgh - £55,000
Edinburgh, Scotland
Responsibilities: Direct the design & development of multiple projects both web and desktop Define & create reusable, dependable & efficient software components in C# Support the development team to guarantee the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Test Engineer (Selenium, QTP, Hands on Experience)
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Our application suite is used by analysts both across the globe and across various lines of business, including Equities, Credit, Fixed Income and Economics... Testing tools - QC, QTP...
FPSG Connect
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare + Bous
Posted: 21 May 2013
Software QA Manager - Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Growing organisation in central Edinburgh developing new and award winning software products looking for experienced software tester to offer role providing hands on Testing and QA services while...
Search Consultancy
Salary: Salary DOE + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Software Testing Engineer / Agile / GUI testing
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This role would suit a Software Testing Engineer with 2 / 3 years of experience following a degree in Maths, Computer Science, Physics or similar. ISEB certification would be...
IT Connections
Salary: £25,000 to £35,000
Posted: 24 May 2013
Software Engineer
Alness, Ross-Shire
Correlation and Analytics... Log Analytics. Incident & Change Management... ASP.NET MVC development... SNMP, JMX, WMI... Cacti, Nagios, Net-SNMP, RRD) Familiarity with open source configuration management tools (e...
Pentasia Ltd
Salary: From £0 to £0 per annum Flexible
Posted: 20 May 2013
Technical Manager
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Experience of quality assurance, ISO27001 / ITIL. It would be highly desirable to have Cisco certifications, CCNP and CCDA You will also be responsible for the Technical department budget.
Search Consultancy
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Network Test Engineer - Erskine Based
Scotland
Competent in all skills as shown: CISCO (CCNA or CCNP), SNMP, FTP, networking theory. Nice to have: Netcool, DOORS, Starteam (configuration tool) Other key skills/product knowledge: Requirements...
EADS
Posted: 16 May 2013
Network Build Engineer - Erskine Based
Scotland
Formal Education and training: A Technical qualification (CCNA/CCNP) backed by several years experience producing network solutions... Competent in all skills as shown: CISCO (CCNA or CCNP), SNMP,...
EADS
Posted: 16 May 2013
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