QA Job Trends in Glasgow

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 37 76
Rank change year-on-year -12 +39 -64
Permanent jobs citing QA 16 41 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 2.12% 4.67% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.40% 32.03% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 6
10th Percentile - £44,625 £29,750
25th Percentile - £52,500 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £22,129 £100,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -77.87% +158.06% -22.50%
75th Percentile £29,097 £110,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £50,000 - £66,250
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 63 128 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.36% 14.58% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29 71 52
10th Percentile £22,129 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,541 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.71% +20.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £110,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £54,338 £59,556
% change year-on-year +10.42% -8.76% +19.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

QA job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) WinCC
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) QA Manager
1 6 (37.50%) Quality Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Senior QA Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Quality Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Control Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (31.25%) Driving Licence
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (12.50%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
3 4 (25.00%) Coaching
3 4 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 4 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 4 (25.00%) Six Sigma
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) ITSM
4 3 (18.75%) Service Management
5 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Data Management
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Release Management
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
1 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) IEC 61131
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Rockwell
2 2 (12.50%) Siemens
3 1 (6.25%) VMware