QA Jobs in Glasgow

Quality Assurance (QA)
Scotland > 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 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 13 43
Rank change year-on-year -135 +30 +4
Permanent jobs citing QA 90 212 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.26% 13.53% 5.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.19% 68.39% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 33 26 45
10th Percentile £16,704 - £35,000
25th Percentile £21,897 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £71,600
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +18.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following 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 or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 469 310 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.78% 19.78% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 117 78 129
10th Percentile £22,000 £30,425 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £38,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +11.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £69,649 £55,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £66,700
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £53,691 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% +5.50%

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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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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram 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 4 (4.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.11%) Blender
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.11%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) AWS
2 9 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
3 5 (5.56%) SaaS
4 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) Serverless
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) ClickUp
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Big Data
1 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) JIRA
2 9 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 9 (10.00%) Gradle
2 9 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) JMeter
2 9 (10.00%) Maven
3 5 (5.56%) Git
4 3 (3.33%) JDeveloper
5 1 (1.11%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 39 (43.33%) Finance
2 35 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Marketing
4 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (12.22%) Law
6 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Legal
7 6 (6.67%) Local Government
7 6 (6.67%) Police
7 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (4.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.44%) Retail
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) Senior
2 17 (18.89%) Services Director
3 15 (16.67%) Developer
4 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) QA Software Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Bid Writer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Bid Writer
8 5 (5.56%) Change Manager
8 5 (5.56%) QA Specialist
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (4.44%) Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) React
2 9 (10.00%) Ext JS
2 9 (10.00%) Spring
2 9 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.67%) .NET
4 5 (5.56%) JSON
4 5 (5.56%) RESTful
4 5 (5.56%) XML
5 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.33%) Node.js
6 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.22%) CSS
6 2 (2.22%) HTML
7 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.11%) Laravel
7 1 (1.11%) REST
7 1 (1.11%) Sass
7 1 (1.11%) SOAP
7 1 (1.11%) Web Services
7 1 (1.11%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Management Information System
2 9 (10.00%) Market Risk
3 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) 3D Printing
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Linux
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Android
2 4 (4.44%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.44%) Mesosphere
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.11%) Mentoring
3 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (21.11%) Agile
5 18 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 17 (18.89%) Budgeting
6 17 (18.89%) Creative Thinking
6 17 (18.89%) Internal Audit
6 17 (18.89%) Strategic Thinking
6 17 (18.89%) Test Automation
7 12 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (13.33%) Microservices
7 12 (13.33%) SDLC
7 12 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (12.22%) Coaching
8 11 (12.22%) Design Patterns
8 11 (12.22%) Project Management
8 11 (12.22%) Software Testing
8 11 (12.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
2 13 (14.44%) Java
3 11 (12.22%) SQL
4 6 (6.67%) C#
5 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.44%) Python
5 4 (4.44%) Swift
6 3 (3.33%) Bash
6 3 (3.33%) Go
6 3 (3.33%) Perl
6 3 (3.33%) Ruby
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
7 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.11%) VB
7 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CBAP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.56%) GMP
3 3 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.44%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) TOWER Software
3 6 (6.67%) NEC
4 4 (4.44%) VMware
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Xero