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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 27 51
Rank change year-on-year -71 +24 -4
Permanent jobs citing QA 246 401 318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.68% 8.61% 5.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.48% 56.56% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 146 49 147
10th Percentile £17,500 £37,500 £33,450
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
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 £63,917
90th Percentile £66,250 £78,000 £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 807 709 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.07% 15.22% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 340 208 435
10th Percentile £22,250 £31,250 £25,775
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,688 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,691 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +19.31% +5.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,514 £88,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -135 90 £40,000 -20.00% 17
Edinburgh +1 72 £52,500 -16.00% 16
Aberdeen +6 20 £40,000 - 8
Fife - 19 £38,750 - 1
Lanarkshire - 10 £42,500 - 7
Dundee -5 7 £45,000 -7.46% 3
Ayrshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 £13,000 - 1
West Lothian - 3 £15,000 - 1
Highlands -6 2 £40,000 - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Stirling -9 1 £35,776 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 5 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) Blender
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.81%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.29%) AWS
2 38 (15.45%) Azure
3 20 (8.13%) SaaS
4 14 (5.69%) GCP
5 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.66%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (2.44%) Serverless
8 5 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.03%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.22%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.41%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Intranet
2 2 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.85%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.85%) Looker
2 7 (2.85%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.03%) Power BI
5 4 (1.63%) Big Data
5 4 (1.63%) MySQL
5 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.22%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.57%) Cypress.io
2 24 (9.76%) JIRA
3 13 (5.28%) Selenium
4 12 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 12 (4.88%) Git
5 10 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.07%) JMeter
6 9 (3.66%) Gradle
6 9 (3.66%) Maven
7 6 (2.44%) JDeveloper
8 4 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.63%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.41%) JUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.41%) Mockito
9 1 (0.41%) MSTest
9 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 77 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.51%) Finance
3 31 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (8.13%) Games
6 17 (6.91%) Marketing
7 13 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.88%) Law
8 12 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.07%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.85%) Billing
10 7 (2.85%) Legal
10 7 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.44%) Local Government
11 6 (2.44%) Police
12 5 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.63%) Aviation
13 4 (1.63%) Electronics
13 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (17.89%) QA Engineer
2 31 (12.60%) Developer
3 26 (10.57%) Senior
4 20 (8.13%) Lead
5 18 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.91%) Services Director
6 17 (6.91%) Test Engineer
6 17 (6.91%) Tester
7 11 (4.47%) IT Support
8 10 (4.07%) QA Leader
9 9 (3.66%) Analyst
9 9 (3.66%) Data Manager
9 9 (3.66%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (3.66%) Java Engineer
9 9 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (3.66%) QA Software Engineer
9 9 (3.66%) Software Tester
10 8 (3.25%) Hardware Engineer
10 8 (3.25%) Hardware Test Engineer
10 8 (3.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.98%) React
2 17 (6.91%) Playwright
3 11 (4.47%) CSS
3 11 (4.47%) HTML
4 10 (4.07%) Spring
4 10 (4.07%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.66%) .NET
5 9 (3.66%) Ext JS
6 8 (3.25%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.85%) Node.js
8 6 (2.44%) Vue
9 5 (2.03%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.03%) JSON
9 5 (2.03%) RESTful
9 5 (2.03%) XML
10 4 (1.63%) DOM
11 3 (1.22%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (0.81%) Entity Framework
12 2 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.50%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.66%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.03%) IoT
8 4 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.63%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) 3D Printing
11 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.41%) Life Science
11 1 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.47%) Windows
2 7 (2.85%) Android
3 6 (2.44%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.63%) Mesosphere
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.99%) Test Automation
2 70 (28.46%) Software Testing
3 69 (28.05%) Agile
4 68 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (17.48%) Mentoring
6 41 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 35 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (13.82%) Software Engineering
9 28 (11.38%) DevOps
9 28 (11.38%) Project Management
9 28 (11.38%) Regression Testing
10 27 (10.98%) Strategic Thinking
11 22 (8.94%) Manual Testing
12 20 (8.13%) CI/CD
12 20 (8.13%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (8.13%) Scrum
13 19 (7.72%) Budgeting
13 19 (7.72%) Test Management
14 18 (7.32%) Internal Audit
14 18 (7.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.14%) JavaScript
2 32 (13.01%) Python
3 30 (12.20%) Java
4 28 (11.38%) SQL
5 14 (5.69%) C#
6 12 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.25%) C++
8 7 (2.85%) Bash
9 6 (2.44%) Go
9 6 (2.44%) Perl
9 6 (2.44%) PHP
9 6 (2.44%) Ruby
10 5 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.63%) Swift
12 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.41%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (12.60%) Degree
2 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.44%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.03%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.63%) ISEB
5 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CBAP
8 1 (0.41%) HNC
8 1 (0.41%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.91%) ISO 9001
2 6 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.44%) GMP
3 5 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) GLP
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 7 (2.85%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 8 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.63%) Ansible
2 4 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
2 4 (1.63%) Puppet
3 1 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.07%) Google
3 9 (3.66%) TOWER Software
4 6 (2.44%) NEC
4 6 (2.44%) Oracle
5 4 (1.63%) Apple
5 4 (1.63%) VMware
6 3 (1.22%) Databricks
7 2 (0.81%) Sage
8 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.41%) TP-LINK
8 1 (0.41%) Xero