Manual Testing Jobs in Scotland

Manual Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual 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 145 240 182
Rank change year-on-year +95 -58 +6
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 4 43 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.69% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2 27 18
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,625 £36,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -38.40% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £47,000 £57,750 £75,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +7.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Manual 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,637 6,250 4,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.24% 92.80% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 2,418 2,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,499
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,369 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Scotland.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in Scotland

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +17 3 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Glasgow +160 1 £40,000 +21.21%
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) React Native
2 1 (25.00%) WebGL
2 1 (25.00%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA