QA Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 123 132
Rank change year-on-year +40 +9 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 23 9 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.45% 0.50% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 0.53% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 14
10th Percentile - £62,500 £36,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £67,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.23% +7.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £66,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +36.59% +6.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,527 1,708 2,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 94.63% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,018 1,593
10th Percentile £32,600 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,419 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Edinburgh

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Edinburgh

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 Edinburgh region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) QA
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (65.22%) Games
2 15 (65.22%) Code Quality
3 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 13 (56.52%) Software Testing
4 12 (52.17%) Python
5 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 5 (21.74%) QA Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Software Quality Assurance
7 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
7 4 (17.39%) Azure
7 4 (17.39%) Electronics
8 3 (13.04%) Selenium
8 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
8 3 (13.04%) Spring
8 3 (13.04%) Java
8 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (13.04%) SaaS
8 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
8 3 (13.04%) API Testing
9 2 (8.70%) WildFly
9 2 (8.70%) SDET
9 2 (8.70%) OpenJDK
9 2 (8.70%) Playwright
9 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (8.70%) C#
9 2 (8.70%) ADO

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
1 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JMeter
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Mocha
3 1 (4.35%) Mockito
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 15 (65.22%) Games
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Spring
1 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.70%) ADO
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) Java EE
2 2 (8.70%) OpenJDK
2 2 (8.70%) Playwright
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Jest
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (65.22%) Code Quality
3 13 (56.52%) Software Testing
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) QA Automation
6 3 (13.04%) API Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing
7 2 (8.70%) OO
7 2 (8.70%) OOP
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.70%) SDET
8 1 (4.35%) Design Patterns
8 1 (4.35%) Exploratory Testing
8 1 (4.35%) Integration Testing
8 1 (4.35%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (4.35%) Test Scripting
8 1 (4.35%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
2 12 (52.17%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) ISO 9001
2 4 (17.39%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform