Manual Testing Jobs in Scotland

Manual Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 187 192
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 -28
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 40 36 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 0.78% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.83% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £37,885 £36,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £62,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.40% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £72,500 £46,375
90th Percentile £57,750 £76,000 £59,400
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% +3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,177 4,363 5,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.44% 94.27% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,398 2,185 2,823
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,022 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% +11.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram 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 14 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -108 17 £36,000 -40.00% 1
Aberdeen - 17 £38,500 - 1
Edinburgh +32 4 £60,000 -4.00%
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) SaaS
2 9 (22.50%) BlazeMeter
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (10.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Cypress.io
2 9 (22.50%) Cucumber
2 9 (22.50%) Gradle
2 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (22.50%) JIRA
2 9 (22.50%) JMeter
2 9 (22.50%) Maven
3 5 (12.50%) Selenium
4 4 (10.00%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) Protractor
5 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (57.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (40.00%) Finance
3 16 (40.00%) Law
3 16 (40.00%) Marketing
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 7 (17.50%) Investment Banking
4 7 (17.50%) Legal
4 7 (17.50%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) QA Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 10 (25.00%) Tester
3 9 (22.50%) Java Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) QA Software Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Business Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Onboarding Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Software QA Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 3 (7.50%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Ext JS
1 9 (22.50%) React
1 9 (22.50%) Spring
1 9 (22.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.00%) CSS
2 4 (10.00%) DOM
2 4 (10.00%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) Playwright
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Market Risk
2 7 (17.50%) Credit Derivative
2 7 (17.50%) Derivative
2 7 (17.50%) Fixed Income
2 7 (17.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (17.50%) Hedge funds
2 7 (17.50%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 7 (17.50%) Onboarding
2 7 (17.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) Test Automation
2 22 (55.00%) Regression Testing
3 21 (52.50%) Agile
4 20 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (47.50%) Software Testing
6 17 (42.50%) TDD
7 16 (40.00%) BDD
7 16 (40.00%) Risk Management
8 14 (35.00%) SDLC
8 14 (35.00%) System Testing
9 11 (27.50%) Scrum
9 11 (27.50%) Test Scripting
9 11 (27.50%) Test Strategy
10 9 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (22.50%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (22.50%) Electronic Trading
10 9 (22.50%) Migration
10 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
10 9 (22.50%) Validation
10 9 (22.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) JavaScript
2 22 (55.00%) Java
3 13 (32.50%) C#
3 13 (32.50%) SQL
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) TOWER Software
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle