The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 123 141 132
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 29 19 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.887% 0.557% 0.645%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.931% 0.591% 0.686%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 21
Average salary £32,500 £31,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% -21.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,900 £27,250 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.28% -
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3114 3217 3353
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 95.20% 94.23% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1951 2316 2528
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Test Engineer
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Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland Test Engineer Salary Histogram

Test Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh -6 8 £32,500 +4.00% 2
Glasgow -3 7 £37,500 +32.74% 1
Aberdeen - 7 £32,000 -
Fife - 5 £28,000 -
Dundee - 2 £22,500 - 1
Test Engineer
UK

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Test Engineer in their job title.

1 38 (52.78%) Degree
2 30 (41.67%) Java
3 21 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (25.00%) Scrum
5 17 (23.61%) Automated Testing
6 15 (20.83%) Selenium
6 15 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (19.44%) QA
7 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
7 14 (19.44%) Linux
8 12 (16.67%) SQL
8 12 (16.67%) Electronics
8 12 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 11 (15.28%) Web Testing
9 11 (15.28%) TDD
9 11 (15.28%) Finance
9 11 (15.28%) Games
9 11 (15.28%) Windows
9 11 (15.28%) C
10 10 (13.89%) Perl
10 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
10 10 (13.89%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.89%) Test Strategy
11 9 (12.50%) soapUI
11 9 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (12.50%) Software Testing
11 9 (12.50%) Python
11 9 (12.50%) SOA
11 9 (12.50%) ISEB

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (12.50%) soapUI
2 7 (9.722%) .NET
3 6 (8.333%) J2EE
3 6 (8.333%) SOAP
4 4 (5.556%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.556%) Qt
4 4 (5.556%) CSS
4 4 (5.556%) HTML
4 4 (5.556%) XML
5 3 (4.167%) Web Services
6 2 (2.778%) WinForms
6 2 (2.778%) jQuery
7 1 (1.389%) Middleware
7 1 (1.389%) Silverlight
7 1 (1.389%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 3 (4.167%) MS Excel
1 3 (4.167%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.389%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Internet
2 3 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.167%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.778%) MS Access
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.389%) GIS
4 1 (1.389%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Selenium
2 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.11%) Ant
4 7 (9.722%) LabVIEW
4 7 (9.722%) Carbide.c++
5 5 (6.944%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (5.556%) Subversion
6 4 (5.556%) Bugzilla
6 4 (5.556%) Visual Studio
6 4 (5.556%) Hudson
7 3 (4.167%) MSBuild
7 3 (4.167%) JUnit
7 3 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (4.167%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.778%) TestComplete
8 2 (2.778%) FitNesse
8 2 (2.778%) InstallShield
8 2 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 2 (2.778%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.389%) JBehave
General
1 12 (16.67%) Electronics
2 11 (15.28%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Games
3 7 (9.722%) Aerospace
3 7 (9.722%) Manufacturing
3 7 (9.722%) Military
4 5 (6.944%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.167%) Banking
6 1 (1.389%) German Language
6 1 (1.389%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
2 7 (9.722%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.722%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 3 (4.167%) Firmware
3 3 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.167%) iPhone
3 3 (4.167%) Mechatronics
4 2 (2.778%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (2.778%) Mathematics
4 2 (2.778%) Physics
5 1 (1.389%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.389%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.389%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Windows
3 6 (8.333%) Android
4 3 (4.167%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.167%) UNIX
5 1 (1.389%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (25.00%) Scrum
3 17 (23.61%) Automated Testing
4 15 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 11 (15.28%) Web Testing
6 11 (15.28%) TDD
7 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
7 10 (13.89%) Test Automation
7 10 (13.89%) Test Strategy
8 9 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 9 (12.50%) SOA
9 8 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.722%) Six Sigma
10 7 (9.722%) Lean Manufacturing
11 6 (8.333%) Regression Testing
12 5 (6.944%) Automation Testing
13 4 (5.556%) BDD
14 3 (4.167%) Software Deployment
14 3 (4.167%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) Java
2 12 (16.67%) SQL
3 11 (15.28%) C
4 10 (13.89%) Perl
5 9 (12.50%) Python
6 8 (11.11%) PHP
6 8 (11.11%) VBScript
6 8 (11.11%) VB
7 6 (8.333%) Shell Script
7 6 (8.333%) C#
7 6 (8.333%) C++
8 5 (6.944%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.944%) Ruby
9 3 (4.167%) VB.NET
9 3 (4.167%) VC++
10 2 (2.778%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.389%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.389%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (52.78%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) ISEB
3 7 (9.722%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.722%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.722%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.778%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (6.944%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.167%) SolidWorks
3 2 (2.778%) Oracle
4 1 (1.389%) JBoss
Dundee, Scotland
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greywood
Salary: £24000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Skills/Experience: - Test experience in Windows forms, Web and/or mobile app application environments - Agile development test design, methodologies and techniques - Strong knowledge of manual/automated functional, performance...
Change Recruitment Group
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have experience of using NI LabView, PXI instrument racks, Test Stand, and an understanding of measuring the performance of mixed signal ASICs ie amplifiers, ADC, charge...
OCC Computing
Salary: Market related
Posted: 5 June 2013
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