QA Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 741 607
Rank change year-on-year +174 -134 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 27 39 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.050% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.053% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23 33 66
10th Percentile £33,200 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £52,188
90th Percentile £48,750 £51,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.97% -13.33% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 36,344 73,846 49,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 95.04% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18,515 51,650 29,399
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -6.54% +6.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA 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 QA Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2025. 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 +84 11 £41,250 +10.00% 13
Midlands +71 7 £45,000 -18.18%
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 -
North of England +58 5 £35,000 -20.00% 12
North West -3 5 £35,000 -17.65% 10
South West +116 4 £40,000 +23.08%
West Midlands +72 1 £55,000 -
QA Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2025, QA 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 QA Analyst in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (62.96%) Test Automation
2 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
3 15 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 12 (44.44%) Manual Testing
4 12 (44.44%) User Experience
5 10 (37.04%) Agile
6 9 (33.33%) Regression Testing
6 9 (33.33%) Azure
7 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (29.63%) DevOps
8 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
9 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
9 6 (22.22%) ISTQB
9 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
9 6 (22.22%) DBS Check
9 6 (22.22%) Power BI
9 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
10 5 (18.52%) Test Management
10 5 (18.52%) Selenium
10 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
11 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
11 4 (14.81%) Android
11 4 (14.81%) UX Design
11 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
11 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
11 4 (14.81%) SaaS

QA 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:

Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Selenium
2 4 (14.81%) Appium
2 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
3 3 (11.11%) LoadRunner
3 3 (11.11%) TestRail
4 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.41%) Gatling
4 2 (7.41%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Locust
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
4 2 (7.41%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) Swagger
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Robotics
2 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Android
1 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Test Automation
2 15 (55.56%) Software Testing
3 12 (44.44%) Manual Testing
3 12 (44.44%) User Experience
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Regression Testing
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 5 (18.52%) Test Management
10 4 (14.81%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
10 4 (14.81%) SDLC
10 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
10 4 (14.81%) UX Design
11 3 (11.11%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) DBS Check
1 6 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) PMO
3 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.70%) Spotify