QA Job Trends in Edinburgh

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 42 82
Rank change year-on-year -44 +40 -30
Permanent jobs citing QA 19 63 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.78% 5.69% 2.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.10% 30.58% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 15
10th Percentile £68,273 £21,256 £33,450
25th Percentile £71,545 £24,818 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +71.11% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,375 £47,500 £66,973
90th Percentile £82,400 £89,875 £94,000
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% -18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 145 206 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.62% 18.61% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 46 31 102
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £39,219 £41,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,072 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,648 £82,548
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

QA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

QA
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Datadog
2 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) GitHub
2 14 (73.68%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) dbt
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.26%) JMeter
1 1 (5.26%) Locust
General
1 16 (84.21%) Finance
2 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Development Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Senior
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Audit Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) .NET
1 14 (73.68%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Onboarding
1 14 (73.68%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
1 16 (84.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (78.95%) Coaching
2 15 (78.95%) Containerisation
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 15 (78.95%) Observability
2 15 (78.95%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (73.68%) Asset Management
3 14 (73.68%) Brown Bag Session
3 14 (73.68%) Code Quality
3 14 (73.68%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (73.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.53%) QMS
5 2 (10.53%) Quality Management
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.26%) OWASP
6 1 (5.26%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 14 (73.68%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) CISA
1 1 (5.26%) CISM
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Grafana
1 15 (78.95%) Kubernetes
1 15 (78.95%) Terraform
2 14 (73.68%) Prometheus