Test Analyst
UK

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK is £41,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 651 671
Rank change year-on-year -83 +20 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 150 339 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 128 216 400
10th Percentile £31,001 £34,037 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +18.75% +1.91%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £49,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.97% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England -63 145 £41,500 -17.00% 31
UK excluding London -117 108 £37,500 -11.76% 27
Work from Home +39 63 £47,500 -5.00% 11
South East -4 45 £45,000 -10.00% 5
London +55 37 £51,250 +2.50% 8
North of England -21 31 £36,250 -15.70% 9
North West -23 18 £37,500 -26.11% 5
East of England +13 14 £40,000 - 4
West Midlands +19 12 £35,000 -23.97% 2
Midlands -29 12 £35,000 -11.39% 6
North East +6 9 £35,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire +40 4 £47,500 +11.76% 4
South West -33 4 £65,000 +62.50% 3
Wales +6 2 - -

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Test Analyst 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 featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 79 (52.67%) Test Automation
2 73 (48.67%) Software Testing
3 55 (36.67%) Agile
4 53 (35.33%) QA
4 53 (35.33%) Test Scripting
5 51 (34.00%) Functional Testing
6 43 (28.67%) ISTQB
7 39 (26.00%) Regression Testing
8 38 (25.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 34 (22.67%) Selenium
9 34 (22.67%) Scenario Testing
10 32 (21.33%) Azure
11 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 28 (18.67%) Performance Testing
13 27 (18.00%) Non-Functional Testing
13 27 (18.00%) DevOps
14 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
14 26 (17.33%) Test Strategy
14 26 (17.33%) Security Cleared
14 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (17.33%) Manual Testing
15 25 (16.67%) Integration Testing
15 25 (16.67%) Degree
15 25 (16.67%) JIRA
15 25 (16.67%) Finance
16 24 (16.00%) Test Management
17 23 (15.33%) C#
18 22 (14.67%) Police
18 22 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (13.33%) Microsoft

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.67%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.33%) Azure
2 22 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.67%) SaaS
4 6 (4.00%) AWS
5 5 (3.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.67%) IaaS
6 1 (0.67%) PaaS
6 1 (0.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.33%) Wireless
2 1 (0.67%) ATM
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (0.67%) GIS
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (22.67%) Selenium
2 25 (16.67%) JIRA
3 11 (7.33%) JMeter
3 11 (7.33%) TestRail
4 8 (5.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (4.67%) NUnit
6 6 (4.00%) Postman
6 6 (4.00%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.00%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.67%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.67%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.33%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.67%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.67%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.67%) JUnit
9 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.67%) TestNG
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.67%) Finance
4 22 (14.67%) Police
5 20 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
7 15 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.33%) Electronics
8 8 (5.33%) Retail
9 6 (4.00%) Games
10 4 (2.67%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.67%) Local Government
11 3 (2.00%) Legal
12 2 (1.33%) Law
12 2 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Advertising
13 1 (0.67%) Banking
13 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.67%) .NET
2 6 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.33%) .NET Core
3 5 (3.33%) Web Services
4 4 (2.67%) JSON
4 4 (2.67%) XML
5 2 (1.33%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.67%) HTML
6 1 (0.67%) React
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) Spring
6 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.67%) CCTV
1 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.67%) BBC
3 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.67%) IoT
3 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.67%) Test Automation
2 73 (48.67%) Software Testing
3 55 (36.67%) Agile
4 53 (35.33%) Test Scripting
5 51 (34.00%) Functional Testing
6 39 (26.00%) Regression Testing
7 38 (25.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (22.67%) Scenario Testing
9 28 (18.67%) Performance Testing
10 27 (18.00%) DevOps
10 27 (18.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 26 (17.33%) Manual Testing
11 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (17.33%) Test Strategy
12 25 (16.67%) Integration Testing
13 24 (16.00%) Test Management
14 18 (12.00%) System Testing
15 16 (10.67%) Defect Management
15 16 (10.67%) ERP
15 16 (10.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.33%) C#
2 19 (12.67%) SQL
3 5 (3.33%) Java
3 5 (3.33%) Python
4 3 (2.00%) Scala
5 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (28.67%) ISTQB
2 26 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 25 (16.67%) Degree
4 16 (10.67%) ISEB
5 15 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
7 11 (7.33%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.67%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.67%) GIAC
9 1 (0.67%) OSCP
9 1 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (35.33%) QA
2 8 (5.33%) GDPR
3 2 (1.33%) PMO
3 2 (1.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (8.00%) Firmware
2 8 (5.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Grafana
1 5 (3.33%) Kibana
2 1 (0.67%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.67%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 20 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.67%) Oracle
3 8 (5.33%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 6 (4.00%) YouTube
6 4 (2.67%) Databricks
7 2 (1.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.67%) Citrix
8 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.67%) IBM
8 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) VMware