Senior Test Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 909 1112
Rank change year-on-year +27 +203 -257
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 14 61 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.058% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.064% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 40
10th Percentile - £39,550 £36,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +20.88% +1.11%
75th Percentile £57,000 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,400 - £60,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% +5.88%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +76 12 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Work from Home +87 11 £35,000 -33.33% 1
UK excluding London -11 10 £35,000 -36.36% 1
North of England +40 6 £35,000 -22.22%
North East - 6 £35,000 -
South East +21 3 £45,000 -35.71%
London +120 2 £63,750 +21.43% 2
East of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Test Scripting
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 9 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (64.29%) Scenario Testing
3 8 (57.14%) Police
3 8 (57.14%) Business Strategy
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (42.86%) Business Development
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) Oracle
5 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
5 6 (42.86%) ERP
5 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (42.86%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (42.86%) Functional Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Scala
8 3 (21.43%) Azure
8 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) ETL
8 3 (21.43%) Finance
8 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2

Senior 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 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (57.14%) Police
3 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Test Scripting
2 9 (64.29%) Scenario Testing
3 8 (57.14%) Business Strategy
4 7 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Business Development
5 6 (42.86%) ERP
5 6 (42.86%) Functional Testing
5 6 (42.86%) Impact Assessments
6 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 3 (21.43%) ETL
8 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
8 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
9 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
10 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
10 1 (7.14%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) Scala
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (7.14%) BC Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) OSCP
5 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP SiteScope
1 1 (7.14%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) VMware