QA Jobs in Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Quality Assurance (QA) Scotland / Glasgow
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	75	55	48
Rank change year-on-year	-20	-7
Permanent jobs citing QA	28	64	55
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow	2.34%	5.01%	4.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	28.57%	50.00%	36.42%
Number of salaries quoted	10	27	32
Median salary	£45,000	£37,500	£37,750
Median salary % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-0.66%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,000	£26,200	£32,100
10% offered a salary of more than	£50,150	£55,000	£45,900
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,500
% change year-on-year	-	+4.93%

QA is in the quality assurance and compliance skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills.

Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills Glasgow
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills	98	128	151
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow	8.17%	10.02%	11.93%
Number of salaries quoted	43	60	96
Median salary	£50,000	£37,000	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+35.13%	-12.94%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£23,500	£30,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£67,500	£57,000	£59,600
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Glasgow citing QA as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA in Glasgow.

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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing QA in Glasgow over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT jobs citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the Glasgow region with a requirement for QA.

1	39 (67.24%)	SQL
2	26 (44.83%)	Analytical Skills
3	24 (41.38%)	PL/SQL
4	23 (39.66%)	Agile Software Development
5	21 (36.21%)	Data Warehouse
6	20 (34.48%)	User Acceptance Testing
7	19 (32.76%)	Java
7	19 (32.76%)	Test Planning
8	18 (31.03%)	Scorecard
8	18 (31.03%)	BusinessObjects
8	18 (31.03%)	BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8	18 (31.03%)	Data Analysis
9	14 (24.14%)	Test Automation
10	12 (20.69%)	SQL Server
10	12 (20.69%)	Web Services

11	11 (18.97%)	Unit Testing
12	10 (17.24%)	Relational Database
13	9 (15.52%)	Mentoring
13	9 (15.52%)	BDD
13	9 (15.52%)	Degree
13	9 (15.52%)	Selenium
13	9 (15.52%)	Banking
13	9 (15.52%)	Oracle
14	8 (13.79%)	TDD
14	8 (13.79%)	SoapUI
14	8 (13.79%)	Continuous Improvement
15	7 (12.07%)	Scrum
16	6 (10.34%)	Subversion
16	6 (10.34%)	Software Engineering
16	6 (10.34%)	Continuous Integration

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	5 (8.62%)	Tomcat
2	1 (1.72%)	Drupal
2	1 (1.72%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	1 (1.72%)	SharePoint

Cloud Services
1	1 (1.72%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	1 (1.72%)	Internet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (36.21%)	Data Warehouse
2	18 (31.03%)	BusinessObjects
2	18 (31.03%)	BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3	12 (20.69%)	SQL Server
4	10 (17.24%)	Relational Database
5	4 (6.90%)	RDBMS
6	2 (3.45%)	MongoDB
6	2 (3.45%)	Oracle Database
6	2 (3.45%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	1 (1.72%)	Oracle Database 10g
7	1 (1.72%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	1 (1.72%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	9 (15.52%)	Selenium
2	8 (13.79%)	SoapUI
3	6 (10.34%)	Subversion
4	5 (8.62%)	Git (software)
5	4 (6.90%)	Cucumber
5	4 (6.90%)	Moq
5	4 (6.90%)	NUnit
5	4 (6.90%)	Team Foundation Server
6	3 (5.17%)	Appium
7	2 (3.45%)	JUnit
7	2 (3.45%)	Maven
7	2 (3.45%)	TeamCity
8	1 (1.72%)	Ant
8	1 (1.72%)	Bitbucket
8	1 (1.72%)	ClearCase
8	1 (1.72%)	HP UFT
8	1 (1.72%)	Hudson
8	1 (1.72%)	Jenkins
8	1 (1.72%)	Mockito
8	1 (1.72%)	tSQLt

General
1	9 (15.52%)	Banking
2	5 (8.62%)	Investment Banking
3	4 (6.90%)	Finance
4	3 (5.17%)	Telecoms
5	2 (3.45%)	Back Office
6	1 (1.72%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	34 (58.62%)	Developer
2	18 (31.03%)	SAP BusinessObjects (BO) Developer
3	7 (12.07%)	Test Engineer
4	6 (10.34%)	Java Developer
5	5 (8.62%)	Senior Developer
5	5 (8.62%)	Test Automation Engineer
5	5 (8.62%)	Tester
6	4 (6.90%)	.NET Developer
7	3 (5.17%)	Automation Tester
7	3 (5.17%)	C# .NET Developer
7	3 (5.17%)	C# Developer
7	3 (5.17%)	SQL Developer
8	2 (3.45%)	.NET Software Developer
8	2 (3.45%)	Delivery Manager
8	2 (3.45%)	Oracle Developer
8	2 (3.45%)	QA Engineer
8	2 (3.45%)	QA Test Engineer
8	2 (3.45%)	Senior .NET Developer
8	2 (3.45%)	SQL Server Developer
8	2 (3.45%)	Telecoms Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	12 (20.69%)	Web Services
2	6 (10.34%)	RESTful
3	5 (8.62%)	.NET
3	5 (8.62%)	Gherkin
3	5 (8.62%)	Hibernate
3	5 (8.62%)	JMS
3	5 (8.62%)	SOAP
3	5 (8.62%)	Spring
3	5 (8.62%)	XML
4	4 (6.90%)	.NET Framework
4	4 (6.90%)	Apache CXF
4	4 (6.90%)	ASP.NET
4	4 (6.90%)	ASP.NET MVC
4	4 (6.90%)	Entity Framework
4	4 (6.90%)	Unity DI Container
4	4 (6.90%)	XML Schema
5	2 (3.45%)	AngularJS
5	2 (3.45%)	CSS
5	2 (3.45%)	HTML
6	1 (1.72%)	J2EE

Miscellaneous
1	26 (44.83%)	Analytical Skills
2	6 (10.34%)	Computer Science
3	1 (1.72%)	Data Structures
3	1 (1.72%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	4 (6.90%)	Unix
2	3 (5.17%)	Windows
3	2 (3.45%)	Linux
3	2 (3.45%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	23 (39.66%)	Agile Software Development
2	20 (34.48%)	User Acceptance Testing
3	19 (32.76%)	Test Planning
4	18 (31.03%)	Data Analysis
4	18 (31.03%)	Scorecard
5	14 (24.14%)	Test Automation
6	11 (18.97%)	Unit Testing
7	9 (15.52%)	BDD
7	9 (15.52%)	Mentoring
8	8 (13.79%)	Continuous Improvement
8	8 (13.79%)	TDD
9	7 (12.07%)	Scrum
10	6 (10.34%)	Continuous Delivery
10	6 (10.34%)	Continuous Integration
10	6 (10.34%)	MVC
10	6 (10.34%)	OO
10	6 (10.34%)	Software Engineering
10	6 (10.34%)	User Stories
11	5 (8.62%)	Defect Management
11	5 (8.62%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	39 (67.24%)	SQL
2	24 (41.38%)	PL/SQL
3	19 (32.76%)	Java
4	5 (8.62%)	C#
4	5 (8.62%)	Groovy
4	5 (8.62%)	Scala
5	4 (6.90%)	JavaScript
6	3 (5.17%)	PowerShell
7	2 (3.45%)	Clojure
7	2 (3.45%)	Perl
8	1 (1.72%)	Apex Code
8	1 (1.72%)	T-SQL
8	1 (1.72%)	TypeScript