QA Jobs in Glasgow

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 146 18
Rank change year-on-year +95 -128 +25
Permanent jobs citing QA 13 93 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.47% 2.32% 12.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.12% 20.00% 64.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 34 21
10th Percentile - £16,866 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £22,798 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,688 £72,500
90th Percentile - £76,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +12.24%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 68 465 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.93% 11.61% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 117 77
10th Percentile £47,500 £22,000 £30,150
25th Percentile £52,000 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Glasgow

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for QA in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
1 4 (30.77%) Maven
2 3 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Mockito
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Games
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) PHP Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) QA Officer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) JPA
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) REST
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 2 (15.38%) JSON
5 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
6 1 (7.69%) CSS
6 1 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (7.69%) JWT
6 1 (7.69%) OAuth
6 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
6 1 (7.69%) Redux
6 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) SOLID
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) PHP
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Solace