Test Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 653 527 437
Rank change year-on-year -126 -90 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 107 227 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.42% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 90 140 288
10th Percentile £23,800 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £48,438 £55,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £56,000 £62,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +17.28% +1.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 -2 42 £46,250 -7.50% 4
North of England -22 30 £35,000 -18.60% 9
North West -19 17 £37,500 -29.58% 5
West Midlands +21 14 £35,000 -19.54% 1
Midlands -17 14 £35,000 -11.39% 6
East of England +18 13 £40,000 - 1
North East +5 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -33 6 £39,789 +4.33% 2
Yorkshire +35 4 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Wales +6 2 - -
Test Analyst
UK

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 52 (48.60%) Test Automation
2 50 (46.73%) Test Scripting
3 43 (40.19%) Software Testing
4 40 (37.38%) ISTQB
5 38 (35.51%) QA
6 34 (31.78%) Agile
7 25 (23.36%) Functional Testing
8 24 (22.43%) Finance
9 23 (21.50%) Integration Testing
9 23 (21.50%) Manual Testing
10 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
11 21 (19.63%) Azure
11 21 (19.63%) Selenium
12 20 (18.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
13 19 (17.76%) Scenario Testing
13 19 (17.76%) Microsoft
14 17 (15.89%) ERP
14 17 (15.89%) Test Management
14 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
14 17 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (14.95%) C#
16 15 (14.02%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
16 15 (14.02%) Test Strategy
17 14 (13.08%) DevOps
17 14 (13.08%) Test Planning
17 14 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (13.08%) Regression Testing

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.93%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Azure
2 14 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.28%) SaaS
4 6 (5.61%) AWS
5 5 (4.67%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Wireless
2 1 (0.93%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.80%) Big Data
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.63%) Selenium
2 12 (11.21%) JIRA
3 9 (8.41%) TestRail
4 8 (7.48%) JMeter
5 6 (5.61%) NUnit
5 6 (5.61%) Visual Studio
5 6 (5.61%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.74%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.87%) Postman
8 1 (0.93%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.93%) GitLab
8 1 (0.93%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.93%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.93%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.93%) Newman
8 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (22.43%) Finance
2 20 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
4 15 (14.02%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.35%) Police
6 8 (7.48%) Retail
7 6 (5.61%) Games
8 3 (2.80%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.93%) Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) .NET
2 6 (5.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.74%) JSON
4 4 (3.74%) Web Services
4 4 (3.74%) XML
5 1 (0.93%) React
5 1 (0.93%) Spring
5 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.74%) CCTV
1 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (0.93%) BBC
2 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
2 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.93%) IoT
2 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
2 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
2 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) Test Automation
2 50 (46.73%) Test Scripting
3 43 (40.19%) Software Testing
4 34 (31.78%) Agile
5 25 (23.36%) Functional Testing
6 23 (21.50%) Integration Testing
6 23 (21.50%) Manual Testing
7 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (17.76%) Scenario Testing
10 17 (15.89%) ERP
10 17 (15.89%) Test Management
11 15 (14.02%) Test Strategy
12 14 (13.08%) DevOps
12 14 (13.08%) Regression Testing
12 14 (13.08%) Test Planning
13 13 (12.15%) Defect Management
13 13 (12.15%) Non-Functional Testing
13 13 (12.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 13 (12.15%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.95%) C#
2 13 (12.15%) SQL
3 4 (3.74%) Python
4 3 (2.80%) Scala
5 2 (1.87%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) ISTQB
2 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.41%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.41%) ISEB
6 6 (5.61%) Degree
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (35.51%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.87%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Grafana
1 5 (4.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.67%) YouTube
5 4 (3.74%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk