QA Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 130 27
Rank change year-on-year +47 -103 +33
Permanent jobs citing QA 130 93 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.68% 2.44% 9.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 19.79% 58.70%
Number of salaries quoted 46 49 79
10th Percentile £21,909 £17,676 £35,800
25th Percentile £41,563 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £110,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £68,500 £81,900
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 468 470 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.64% 12.35% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 135 220 239
10th Percentile £36,000 £27,375 £31,164
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,375 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £78,088 £83,800
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for QA in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 January 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 +36 63 £45,000 -21.45% 12
Glasgow +91 42 £100,000 +212.50% 12
Renfrewshire - 8 £16,500 - 1
Aberdeen +7 7 £50,000 +33.33% 3
Lanarkshire -6 5 - - 1
North Lanarkshire -6 1 £57,500 +342.31%
Fife -30 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 £21,978 - 2
Stirling - 1 £42,500 -
Ayrshire - 1 £35,000 -
East Lothian - 1 - -
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.54%) WordPress
2 1 (0.77%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.15%) SaaS
2 7 (5.38%) AWS
3 5 (3.85%) Azure
4 4 (3.08%) GitHub
5 3 (2.31%) GCP
5 3 (2.31%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.54%) Contentful
6 2 (1.54%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.54%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.54%) Vercel
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.08%) MySQL
3 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.77%) Big Data
4 1 (0.77%) Power BI
4 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Cypress.io
1 5 (3.85%) Git
2 3 (2.31%) GitLab
3 2 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) Appium
4 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) JIRA
4 1 (0.77%) Postman
4 1 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (25.38%) Pharmaceutical
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
4 20 (15.38%) Manufacturing
5 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.77%) Legal
6 10 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Banking
7 5 (3.85%) Games
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Marketing
9 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.31%) Social Science
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (14.62%) Senior
2 18 (13.85%) Developer
3 17 (13.08%) Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) QA Officer
5 14 (10.77%) Head of Development
6 13 (10.00%) Audit Manager
7 11 (8.46%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.62%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.85%) QA Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Architect
11 4 (3.08%) IT Support
11 4 (3.08%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Software Tester
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Tester
11 4 (3.08%) Software Tester
11 4 (3.08%) Tester
12 3 (2.31%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.77%) React
2 7 (5.38%) Playwright
3 6 (4.62%) CSS
3 6 (4.62%) REST
4 5 (3.85%) Spring
5 4 (3.08%) .NET
6 3 (2.31%) HTML
6 3 (2.31%) Next.js
6 3 (2.31%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.54%) JSON
7 2 (1.54%) Kafka
7 2 (1.54%) RESTful
7 2 (1.54%) Symfony
7 2 (1.54%) Twig
8 1 (0.77%) CSS3
8 1 (0.77%) HTML5
8 1 (0.77%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.77%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.31%) Genomics
6 3 (2.31%) Life Science
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Smart City
7 2 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.77%) IoT
8 1 (0.77%) PCIe
8 1 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.38%) QMS
2 28 (21.54%) Agile
3 26 (20.00%) Quality Management
4 24 (18.46%) Software Engineering
5 23 (17.69%) Mentoring
6 22 (16.92%) Project Management
7 21 (16.15%) Coaching
8 19 (14.62%) Software Testing
9 18 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (13.08%) CAPA
11 16 (12.31%) Commercialisation
11 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (11.54%) Business Development
13 14 (10.77%) Performance Management
13 14 (10.77%) Roadmaps
14 13 (10.00%) Biology
14 13 (10.00%) Biotechnology
14 13 (10.00%) Change Control
14 13 (10.00%) Chemistry
15 12 (9.23%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.31%) JavaScript
2 12 (9.23%) Java
3 10 (7.69%) Python
4 8 (6.15%) SQL
5 7 (5.38%) PHP
6 5 (3.85%) C#
7 4 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (30.77%) Degree
2 10 (7.69%) ACCA
3 5 (3.85%) CBAP
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.31%) PMP
5 1 (0.77%) APMP
5 1 (0.77%) ISEB
5 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.77%) MCP
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.77%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.38%) GMP
2 12 (9.23%) ISO 14001
2 12 (9.23%) ISO 9001
2 12 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.31%) Concur
3 2 (1.54%) Databricks
3 2 (1.54%) Openreach
3 2 (1.54%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.77%) DocuSign
4 1 (0.77%) Google
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle