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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 100 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 -73 +24
Permanent jobs citing QA 49 235 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.74% 3.49% 8.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.72% 29.19% 57.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25 140 55
10th Percentile £35,250 £17,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £33,779 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £67,500 £79,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +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 418 805 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.83% 11.95% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 342 207
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,300 £31,441
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,433 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +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 1 May 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 1 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 -20 23 £45,000 -14.29% 31
Glasgow +115 22 £55,000 +29.41% 15
Aberdeen +10 4 £50,000 +25.00% 1
Ayrshire -6 1 £35,000 -
Lanarkshire -7 1 - - 2
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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 1 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) SaaS
3 5 (10.20%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 3 (6.12%) Smartsheet
6 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Metadata
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Git
2 7 (14.29%) GitLab
3 5 (10.20%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.12%) Gradle
5 3 (6.12%) Maven
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) Mockito
7 1 (2.04%) Appium
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Banking
5 5 (10.20%) Games
6 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.12%) Retail Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Social Science
8 2 (4.08%) Legal
8 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.04%) Marketing
9 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Senior
2 9 (18.37%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) PHP Software Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Software Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Software Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Tester
6 3 (6.12%) Audit Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.12%) Graduate
6 3 (6.12%) Head of Development
6 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Risk Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) React
2 6 (12.24%) Playwright
2 6 (12.24%) REST
3 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 5 (10.20%) Spring
4 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 3 (6.12%) CSS
5 3 (6.12%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.12%) JPA
5 3 (6.12%) JSON
5 3 (6.12%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.12%) WebSockets
6 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.08%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.04%) Flask
7 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.04%) React Native
7 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (8.16%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.12%) Genomics
2 3 (6.12%) Life Science
2 3 (6.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Agile
2 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
5 8 (16.33%) DevOps
6 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.29%) TDD
6 7 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 6 (12.24%) Business Analysis
7 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.24%) Data Management
7 6 (12.24%) Front End Development
7 6 (12.24%) Project Management
7 6 (12.24%) Software Testing
7 6 (12.24%) Test Strategy
8 5 (10.20%) Microservices
8 5 (10.20%) SOLID
8 5 (10.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) Java
1 12 (24.49%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.20%) PHP
5 4 (8.16%) C#
6 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.12%) PMP
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) CBAP
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) GMP
1 2 (4.08%) ISO 14001
1 2 (4.08%) ISO 9001
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) ECSS
2 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Databricks
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle