QA Jobs in Aberdeen

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Aberdeen requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 21 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -7
Permanent jobs citing QA 3 20 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeen 5.36% 6.69% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 50.00% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 1
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £33,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £44,438 -
90th Percentile - £49,875 -
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +15.79%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Aberdeen

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Aberdeen.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6 40 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeen 10.71% 13.38% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 5
10th Percentile - £24,240 £27,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £28,702 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +9.63%
75th Percentile £52,813 £48,125 £50,000
90th Percentile £53,375 £61,250 £63,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +21.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Aberdeen

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Salary Trend in Aberdeen

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

Salary trend for QA in Aberdeen

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Software Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python