Quality Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Quality Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Quality Engineer salary in Scotland is £41,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 194 190
Rank change year-on-year -80 -4 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 8 28 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.59% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.66% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 37
10th Percentile - - £36,527
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £44,000 £40,113
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.69% -
75th Percentile £50,313 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £54,375 £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £40,000 £66,911 £59,500
% change year-on-year -40.22% +12.46% +2.59%

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 6,504 4,273 5,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.24% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,331 2,950
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,569 £28,247
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 £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in Scotland

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Quality Engineer in Scotland

Quality 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 Quality Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Fife - 3 £41,250 - 2
Edinburgh +11 2 £40,000 -9.09% 6
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Aberdeen - 1 £52,500 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Quality Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) TestOps
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 13485
4 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Kaizen
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) MSTest
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) TestComplete
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment

Quality 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 (12.50%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) MSTest
1 1 (12.50%) TestComplete
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) TestOps
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
3 1 (12.50%) Kaizen
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Physics
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) HNC
1 1 (12.50%) HND
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 13485
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001