Test Analyst Jobs in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst salary in England is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 641 645
Rank change year-on-year -45 +4 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 145 307 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 127 193 361
10th Percentile £30,619 £34,324 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.48% +3.75%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year -15.79% +15.15% +5.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the England 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
South East -6 42 £46,250 -7.50% 4
London +60 38 £50,000 - 7
North of England -10 30 £35,000 -18.60% 9
North West -20 17 £37,500 -27.18% 5
East of England +24 14 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands +24 13 £35,000 -26.36% 1
Midlands -23 13 £35,000 -11.39% 6
North East +3 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -25 6 £39,789 +4.33% 3
Yorkshire +39 4 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 across the England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 69 (47.59%) Software Testing
1 69 (47.59%) Test Automation
2 54 (37.24%) Agile
3 53 (36.55%) QA
3 53 (36.55%) Test Scripting
4 51 (35.17%) Functional Testing
5 40 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 39 (26.90%) Regression Testing
7 38 (26.21%) ISTQB
8 34 (23.45%) Azure
9 33 (22.76%) Scenario Testing
9 33 (22.76%) Selenium
10 30 (20.69%) DevOps
11 26 (17.93%) Non-Functional Testing
11 26 (17.93%) JIRA
11 26 (17.93%) Finance
12 25 (17.24%) Manual Testing
12 25 (17.24%) Performance Testing
12 25 (17.24%) Social Skills
12 25 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.55%) Test Strategy
13 24 (16.55%) Integration Testing
14 23 (15.86%) Degree
14 23 (15.86%) C#
15 22 (15.17%) Test Management
15 22 (15.17%) Security Cleared
15 22 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
16 21 (14.48%) SQL
16 21 (14.48%) Microsoft

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.76%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.69%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) Azure
2 25 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (8.28%) SaaS
4 6 (4.14%) AWS
5 5 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.69%) IaaS
6 1 (0.69%) PaaS
6 1 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.52%) Wireless
2 1 (0.69%) ATM
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.07%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) GIS
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (22.76%) Selenium
2 26 (17.93%) JIRA
3 10 (6.90%) JMeter
4 9 (6.21%) TestRail
5 8 (5.52%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (4.14%) NUnit
6 6 (4.14%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.14%) Zephyr
7 5 (3.45%) Postman
8 4 (2.76%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.38%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.69%) Bugzilla
11 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.69%) GitLab
11 1 (0.69%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.69%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.69%) Newman
11 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (17.93%) Finance
2 25 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.79%) Police
5 18 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (11.03%) Public Sector
7 15 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.52%) Electronics
8 8 (5.52%) Retail
9 6 (4.14%) Games
10 4 (2.76%) Local Government
11 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.38%) Banking
11 2 (1.38%) Law
11 2 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) .NET
2 6 (4.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.14%) XML
3 5 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 5 (3.45%) Web Services
4 4 (2.76%) JSON
5 2 (1.38%) REST
6 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.69%) HTML
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
6 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.76%) CCTV
1 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (0.69%) BBC
2 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
2 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.69%) IoT
2 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.59%) Software Testing
1 69 (47.59%) Test Automation
2 54 (37.24%) Agile
3 53 (36.55%) Test Scripting
4 51 (35.17%) Functional Testing
5 40 (27.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 39 (26.90%) Regression Testing
7 33 (22.76%) Scenario Testing
8 30 (20.69%) DevOps
9 26 (17.93%) Non-Functional Testing
10 25 (17.24%) Manual Testing
10 25 (17.24%) Performance Testing
11 24 (16.55%) Integration Testing
11 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.55%) Test Strategy
12 22 (15.17%) Test Management
13 17 (11.72%) System Testing
14 16 (11.03%) Defect Management
14 16 (11.03%) ERP
15 15 (10.34%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) C#
2 21 (14.48%) SQL
3 5 (3.45%) Java
4 4 (2.76%) Python
5 3 (2.07%) Scala
6 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (26.21%) ISTQB
2 23 (15.86%) Degree
3 22 (15.17%) Security Cleared
4 18 (12.41%) ISEB
5 13 (8.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
7 9 (6.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.69%) GIAC
9 1 (0.69%) OSCP
9 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (36.55%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) PMO
3 2 (1.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (8.28%) Firmware
2 8 (5.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Grafana
1 5 (3.45%) Kibana
2 1 (0.69%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.69%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.21%) Oracle
3 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.83%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) YouTube
6 4 (2.76%) Databricks
7 2 (1.38%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.69%) Citrix
8 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.69%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.69%) Splunk
8 1 (0.69%) VMware