Software Testing Jobs in Scotland

Software Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 94 117
Rank change year-on-year -57 +23 -54
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 137 141 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.99% 3.27% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.46% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 94 42 77
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,375 £33,450
25th Percentile £37,125 £41,227 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,161 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,550 £88,734 £69,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,184 4,076 5,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.82% 94.61% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 2,038 2,896
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 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 +30 73 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Glasgow -149 32 £35,000 -30.00% 7
Aberdeen +5 16 £38,500 +22.22% 2
Fife -1 13 £37,500 -31.82%
West Lothian -2 2 £60,000 +25.00%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £26,500 -
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 18 (13.14%) Confluence
2 9 (6.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.55%) AWS
2 32 (23.36%) Azure
3 12 (8.76%) SaaS
4 9 (6.57%) BlazeMeter
4 9 (6.57%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.19%) GCP
7 1 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) WAN
2 1 (0.73%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) Geospatial Data
2 8 (5.84%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (21.17%) JIRA
2 25 (18.25%) Cypress.io
3 18 (13.14%) Bitbucket
4 15 (10.95%) Jenkins
5 11 (8.03%) JMeter
6 10 (7.30%) Cucumber
6 10 (7.30%) Gradle
6 10 (7.30%) Maven
6 10 (7.30%) Selenium
7 6 (4.38%) Git
7 6 (4.38%) MSTest
7 6 (4.38%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.65%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.92%) Appium
10 1 (0.73%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.73%) JUnit
10 1 (0.73%) Mockito
10 1 (0.73%) Postman
10 1 (0.73%) Spinnaker
General
1 62 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.87%) Finance
3 18 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.95%) Games
5 12 (8.76%) Law
6 11 (8.03%) Marketing
7 5 (3.65%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.73%) Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Electronics
9 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (21.90%) Tester
2 29 (21.17%) QA Engineer
3 20 (14.60%) Test Engineer
4 19 (13.87%) Software Tester
5 18 (13.14%) Software Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) Architect
6 17 (12.41%) Software Architect
7 14 (10.22%) Geospatial Architect
8 10 (7.30%) Java Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) QA Software Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Hardware Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Hardware Test Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Software Test Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Lead
11 7 (5.11%) Senior
12 6 (4.38%) QA Leader
13 5 (3.65%) Applications Tester
13 5 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.95%) Playwright
2 14 (10.22%) .NET
3 12 (8.76%) Spring
4 11 (8.03%) React
5 10 (7.30%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.57%) Ext JS
7 6 (4.38%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.65%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.65%) CSS
8 5 (3.65%) HTML
9 4 (2.92%) FHIR
10 3 (2.19%) WPF
11 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
11 2 (1.46%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (1.46%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.46%) HTML5
11 2 (1.46%) Web Services
12 1 (0.73%) Swing
12 1 (0.73%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.22%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (10.22%) Public Cloud
2 12 (8.76%) IoT
3 9 (6.57%) Market Risk
4 8 (5.84%) Clustering
4 8 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.11%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.19%) Blog
6 3 (2.19%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.46%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (67.88%) Test Automation
2 64 (46.72%) Agile
3 39 (28.47%) Regression Testing
4 33 (24.09%) Software Engineering
5 31 (22.63%) CI/CD
6 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (17.52%) Code Quality
7 24 (17.52%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (16.79%) Migration
9 22 (16.06%) DevOps
10 21 (15.33%) TDD
10 21 (15.33%) Test Management
11 20 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.60%) Manual Testing
12 17 (12.41%) Software Architecture
13 14 (10.22%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (10.22%) SDLC
14 13 (9.49%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.49%) Test Planning
15 12 (8.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.93%) JavaScript
1 41 (29.93%) Python
2 40 (29.20%) Java
3 33 (24.09%) SQL
4 25 (18.25%) C#
5 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.65%) C
7 3 (2.19%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (9.49%) Degree
2 8 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.19%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (50.36%) QA
2 12 (8.76%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.92%) DICOM
3 4 (2.92%) HL7
3 4 (2.92%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) VMware NSX
2 6 (4.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 17 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.57%) TOWER Software
3 8 (5.84%) VMware
4 2 (1.46%) Google
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle
5 1 (0.73%) Salesforce