Software Testing Jobs in Scotland

Software Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing 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 102 165 55
Rank change year-on-year +63 -110 +59
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 44 119 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.56% 1.77% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.90% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 30 92 57
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £34,688 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £59,688 £53,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £71,375 £62,500 £85,271
UK median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software 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 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Software Testing in Scotland

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in Scotland

Software 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 Software Testing 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 -12 21 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Glasgow +155 8 £67,500 +107.69% 8
Aberdeen +14 4 £50,000 +29.87% 1
Fife -15 3 £51,500 +37.33%
Moray - 2 £58,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
West Lothian +9 1 - - 2
Dundee - 1 - - 10
Software Testing
UK

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 10 (22.73%) SaaS
3 8 (18.18%) Azure
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) Datadog
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) BGP
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) SSL
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 7 (15.91%) Selenium
3 5 (11.36%) Git
3 5 (11.36%) JUnit
3 5 (11.36%) TestNG
4 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Senior
2 13 (29.55%) Software Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Test Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Tester
5 5 (11.36%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Software Tester
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Tester
6 4 (9.09%) Software Tester
6 4 (9.09%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Development Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Manual Tester
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) Playwright
2 8 (18.18%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) OpenFin
3 3 (6.82%) React
3 3 (6.82%) RESTful
4 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Vue
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) Next.js
5 1 (2.27%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) WebGL
5 1 (2.27%) WebGPU
5 1 (2.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Windows
3 2 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (2.27%) Android
4 1 (2.27%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.27%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 23 (52.27%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
5 11 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 9 (20.45%) DevOps
7 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 8 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 8 (18.18%) SDLC
8 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (15.91%) SDET
8 7 (15.91%) Test Strategy
9 6 (13.64%) Exploratory Testing
9 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 6 (13.64%) Thought Leadership
10 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Observability
10 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (9.09%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Java
2 22 (50.00%) Python
3 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.73%) C#
5 9 (20.45%) SQL
6 8 (18.18%) Rust
7 6 (13.64%) C++
8 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (4.55%) C
10 1 (2.27%) JCL
10 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) CCNP
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 14001
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
2 1 (2.27%) Puppet
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) Splunk