Software Testing Jobs in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 54 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +43
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 21 58 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.29% 3.82% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 4.24% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 30
10th Percentile £44,800 £39,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +11.63%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £62,500 £89,472
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £46,799
% change year-on-year +22.22% -3.84% -1.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 893 1,369 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.38% 90.07% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 423 961 1,174
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £36,390
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Edinburgh

Software Testing
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 1 (4.76%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Datadog
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) JUnit
1 5 (23.81%) Selenium
1 5 (23.81%) TestNG
2 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
3 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Tech for Good
6 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Manual Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Test Development Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) OpenFin
1 3 (14.29%) Playwright
1 3 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) WebGL
2 1 (4.76%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) SDLC
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) SDET
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Observability
6 4 (19.05%) Design Thinking
6 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
6 4 (19.05%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 3 (14.29%) Mathematical Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Price Optimisation
7 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (14.29%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.76%) C
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Opsgenie
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
1 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk