QA Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 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 230 192 218
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 46 17 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.67% 0.39% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.44% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 31 8 24
10th Percentile £33,750 £60,000 £38,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £53,750 £73,750 £55,313
90th Percentile £57,500 £77,500 £62,125
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,642 3,891 5,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.51% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,795 2,122 3,059
10th Percentile £27,710 £30,500 £29,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,138
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for QA Engineer in Scotland

QA Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Edinburgh +47 22 £52,500 -25.00%
Glasgow -115 9 - -
Fife - 9 £37,500 -
Aberdeen - 3 £45,000 -
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - -
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, QA 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 Scotland region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) QA
2 43 (93.48%) Test Automation
3 29 (63.04%) Software Testing
4 25 (54.35%) Code Quality
5 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
6 17 (36.96%) Agile
7 15 (32.61%) Games
8 14 (30.43%) Manual Testing
8 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
9 13 (28.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (28.26%) SDLC
9 13 (28.26%) Cypress.io
9 13 (28.26%) Python
10 11 (23.91%) Java
10 11 (23.91%) Test Scripting
10 11 (23.91%) Spring
10 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
10 11 (23.91%) Cucumber
10 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (21.74%) Microservices
11 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
11 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
11 10 (21.74%) JMeter
11 10 (21.74%) Law
11 10 (21.74%) TDD
11 10 (21.74%) SQL
12 9 (19.57%) Regression Testing
12 9 (19.57%) Risk Management

QA Engineer Skill Set
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 (2.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (10.87%) SaaS
3 4 (8.70%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Cypress.io
2 11 (23.91%) Cucumber
3 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (21.74%) JMeter
4 9 (19.57%) Gradle
4 9 (19.57%) JIRA
4 9 (19.57%) Maven
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Git
6 1 (2.17%) JUnit
6 1 (2.17%) Mocha
6 1 (2.17%) Mockito
6 1 (2.17%) MSTest
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) TestComplete
General
1 15 (32.61%) Games
2 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Law
4 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 9 (19.57%) Marketing
5 4 (8.70%) Aviation
5 4 (8.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Spring
1 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
2 9 (19.57%) Ext JS
2 9 (19.57%) React
3 2 (4.35%) Playwright
4 1 (2.17%) ADO
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) Java EE
4 1 (2.17%) Jest
4 1 (2.17%) OpenJDK
4 1 (2.17%) pytest
4 1 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
4 1 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Market Risk
2 7 (15.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (93.48%) Test Automation
2 29 (63.04%) Software Testing
3 25 (54.35%) Code Quality
4 17 (36.96%) Agile
5 14 (30.43%) Manual Testing
5 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (28.26%) SDLC
7 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (23.91%) Test Scripting
8 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
8 10 (21.74%) Microservices
8 10 (21.74%) TDD
9 9 (19.57%) BDD
9 9 (19.57%) Community of Practice
9 9 (19.57%) Data Validation
9 9 (19.57%) Operational Stability
9 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
9 9 (19.57%) Test Planning
9 9 (19.57%) Verification and Validation
9 9 (19.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
2 13 (28.26%) Python
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 10 (21.74%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
1 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
1 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) ISO 9001
2 4 (8.70%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) TOWER Software
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