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 £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2025.

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

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 648 537
Rank change year-on-year +157 -111 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 77 107 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.15% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 63 89 135
10th Percentile £32,500 £23,800 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,375 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +8.97%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £54,672
90th Percentile £53,750 £56,000 £67,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -12.63% +18.75%

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 35,046 69,651 52,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.93% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,591 49,234 29,921
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -6.54% +6.63%
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% -

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 27 May 2025.

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 27 May 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
North of England +39 22 £40,748 +12.41% 29
North West +2 22 £40,748 +8.66% 13
South East +62 21 £40,000 -11.11% 27
Midlands +75 19 £46,000 +31.43% 30
West Midlands +73 16 £44,500 +27.14% 17
South West +112 8 £40,000 -38.46% 9
Scotland - 5 £52,500 - 11
East Midlands - 3 £47,500 - 12
East of England +23 2 £42,500 +6.25% 19
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, 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 55 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 45 (58.44%) Software Testing
3 36 (46.75%) Agile
4 31 (40.26%) Manual Testing
5 29 (37.66%) QA
5 29 (37.66%) ISTQB
6 28 (36.36%) JIRA
7 27 (35.06%) V-Model
7 27 (35.06%) Waterfall
8 25 (32.47%) Scrum
9 24 (31.17%) Acceptance Criteria
10 21 (27.27%) eggPlant
10 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
10 21 (27.27%) Keysight
10 21 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (23.38%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (23.38%) Azure
12 17 (22.08%) DevOps
13 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (18.18%) Test Scripting
14 14 (18.18%) Regression Testing
15 13 (16.88%) Selenium
15 13 (16.88%) Mentoring
15 13 (16.88%) Test Strategy
16 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
17 11 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (14.29%) SQL
18 9 (11.69%) User Experience
18 9 (11.69%) SaaS
19 8 (10.39%) Cypress.io

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 1 (1.30%) Moodle
1 1 (1.30%) Totara
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Magento
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) SaaS
3 8 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.19%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Power BI
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) JIRA
2 21 (27.27%) eggPlant
3 13 (16.88%) Selenium
4 8 (10.39%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.90%) Postman
5 3 (3.90%) TestRail
6 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.60%) Gatling
6 2 (2.60%) Git
6 2 (2.60%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.60%) Locust
6 2 (2.60%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.30%) Appium
7 1 (1.30%) JMeter
7 1 (1.30%) NUnit
7 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.30%) YouTrack
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Games
5 1 (1.30%) Law
5 1 (1.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Playwright
2 1 (1.30%) JSON
2 1 (1.30%) React Native
2 1 (1.30%) REST
2 1 (1.30%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.30%) AS400
3 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.30%) EPoS
3 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Android
1 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 45 (58.44%) Software Testing
3 36 (46.75%) Agile
4 31 (40.26%) Manual Testing
5 27 (35.06%) V-Model
5 27 (35.06%) Waterfall
6 25 (32.47%) Scrum
7 24 (31.17%) Acceptance Criteria
8 18 (23.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (22.08%) DevOps
10 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (18.18%) Regression Testing
11 14 (18.18%) Test Scripting
12 13 (16.88%) Mentoring
12 13 (16.88%) Test Strategy
13 9 (11.69%) User Experience
14 8 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (10.39%) SDLC
15 7 (9.09%) API Testing
15 7 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) SQL
2 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.79%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) C#
4 4 (5.19%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) ISTQB
2 21 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.90%) ISEB
7 1 (1.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (37.66%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) ITGC
3 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.30%) Firmware
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Keysight
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco
4 1 (1.30%) Spotify