QA Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -77 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 235 426 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.50% 8.99% 5.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.05% 57.96% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 140 56 153
10th Percentile £17,000 £37,500 £32,100
25th Percentile £33,779 £39,688 £39,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 809 735 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.05% 15.52% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 345 209 462
10th Percentile £22,450 £31,505 £25,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £89,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -147 83 £42,500 -19.05% 13
Edinburgh -4 68 £52,500 -16.00% 19
Aberdeen +10 21 £40,000 - 10
Fife - 19 £38,750 - 2
Lanarkshire - 10 £42,500 - 4
Dundee -7 6 £28,311 -41.78% 2
Ayrshire - 4 - - 2
North Lanarkshire - 4 £13,000 - 1
West Lothian - 3 £15,000 - 2
Highlands -6 2 £40,000 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Stirling -12 1 £35,776 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 5
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 -
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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 15 (6.38%) Confluence
2 5 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) Blender
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.87%) AWS
2 38 (16.17%) Azure
3 19 (8.09%) SaaS
4 12 (5.11%) GCP
5 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.83%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (2.55%) Serverless
8 5 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.43%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Intranet
2 2 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.98%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.98%) Looker
2 7 (2.98%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.55%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.13%) Power BI
5 4 (1.70%) Big Data
5 4 (1.70%) MySQL
5 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.28%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.06%) Cypress.io
2 24 (10.21%) JIRA
3 12 (5.11%) Bitbucket
3 12 (5.11%) Git
4 10 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.26%) JMeter
5 9 (3.83%) Gradle
5 9 (3.83%) Maven
5 9 (3.83%) Selenium
6 6 (2.55%) JDeveloper
7 4 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.70%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.70%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.43%) JUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.43%) Mockito
8 1 (0.43%) MSTest
8 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
General
1 68 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.72%) Finance
3 31 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.51%) Games
6 13 (5.53%) Marketing
6 13 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.11%) Law
8 10 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.83%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.98%) Billing
11 4 (1.70%) Aviation
11 4 (1.70%) Electronics
11 4 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.70%) Retail
12 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (18.72%) QA Engineer
2 30 (12.77%) Developer
3 20 (8.51%) Lead
4 18 (7.66%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.23%) Senior
5 17 (7.23%) Services Director
6 16 (6.81%) Tester
7 15 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 11 (4.68%) IT Support
9 10 (4.26%) QA Leader
9 10 (4.26%) Software Tester
10 9 (3.83%) Analyst
10 9 (3.83%) Data Manager
10 9 (3.83%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.83%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) QA Software Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Hardware Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Hardware Test Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.49%) React
2 13 (5.53%) Playwright
3 11 (4.68%) CSS
3 11 (4.68%) HTML
4 10 (4.26%) Spring
4 10 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.83%) .NET
5 9 (3.83%) Ext JS
6 8 (3.40%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.98%) Node.js
8 5 (2.13%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.13%) JSON
8 5 (2.13%) RESTful
8 5 (2.13%) Vue
8 5 (2.13%) XML
9 4 (1.70%) DOM
10 3 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.85%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.83%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.98%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) IoT
8 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) 3D Printing
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.43%) Life Science
9 1 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.68%) Windows
2 7 (2.98%) Android
3 6 (2.55%) Linux
4 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.70%) Mesosphere
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.02%) Test Automation
2 70 (29.79%) Agile
3 67 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (28.51%) Software Testing
4 41 (17.45%) Code Quality
5 40 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 33 (14.04%) Software Engineering
7 28 (11.91%) DevOps
8 27 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (10.64%) Strategic Thinking
10 24 (10.21%) Manual Testing
10 24 (10.21%) Project Management
10 24 (10.21%) Regression Testing
11 20 (8.51%) CI/CD
12 19 (8.09%) Budgeting
12 19 (8.09%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (8.09%) Test Management
13 18 (7.66%) Internal Audit
13 18 (7.66%) Microservices
14 17 (7.23%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.13%) JavaScript
2 30 (12.77%) Python
3 26 (11.06%) Java
4 25 (10.64%) SQL
5 13 (5.53%) C#
6 12 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.40%) C++
8 7 (2.98%) Bash
9 6 (2.55%) Go
9 6 (2.55%) Perl
9 6 (2.55%) Ruby
10 5 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.13%) PHP
11 4 (1.70%) Swift
12 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) VB
13 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (11.91%) Degree
2 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.13%) ISTQB
4 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (1.70%) ISEB
4 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.28%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.28%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CBAP
7 1 (0.43%) HNC
7 1 (0.43%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.23%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (1.28%) GMP
4 3 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) GLP
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 7 (2.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 8 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.70%) Ansible
2 4 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (1.70%) Progress Chef
2 4 (1.70%) Puppet
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
3 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.83%) TOWER Software
3 8 (3.40%) Google
4 6 (2.55%) Oracle
5 4 (1.70%) Apple
5 4 (1.70%) VMware
6 3 (1.28%) Databricks
7 2 (0.85%) NEC
7 2 (0.85%) Sage
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) TP-LINK
8 1 (0.43%) Xero