Test Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Test Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Test Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 123 130
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 14 16 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.92% 0.86% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.91% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 17
10th Percentile £40,000 - £40,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,526 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% +17.65%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,833 £62,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £67,500 £66,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,763 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.30% +19.47% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,471 1,751 2,499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 94.55% 98.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,052 1,554
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,468 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in Edinburgh

Test Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Test Engineer in Edinburgh

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Engineer in Edinburgh

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (92.86%) QA
3 12 (85.71%) Software Testing
4 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
5 9 (64.29%) Agile
6 8 (57.14%) Test Management
6 8 (57.14%) JIRA
6 8 (57.14%) ISO 9001
6 8 (57.14%) Confluence
6 8 (57.14%) Bitbucket
7 5 (35.71%) Selenium
8 4 (28.57%) Java
8 4 (28.57%) SQL
8 4 (28.57%) Playwright
9 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
9 3 (21.43%) Scrum
10 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
10 2 (14.29%) Google
10 2 (14.29%) AWS
10 2 (14.29%) GCP
10 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
10 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
11 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
11 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
11 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
11 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (57.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Bitbucket
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Java EE
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) OpenJDK
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Software Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) Test Management
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.14%) Coaching
7 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Fintech
7 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (7.14%) Functional Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.14%) SDET
7 1 (7.14%) SDLC
7 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
7 1 (7.14%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (92.86%) QA
2 8 (57.14%) ISO 9001
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft