QA Analyst Jobs

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK

The median Quality Assurance Analyst salary in the UK is £42,875 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 858 786
Rank change year-on-year +178 -72 +250
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 31 52 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.051% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.054% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 28 48 108
10th Percentile £35,875 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,875 £39,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -17.89% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,375 £53,750 £67,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +139 31 £42,875 +9.94% 31
UK excluding London +180 25 £40,000 +6.67% 16
Work from Home +108 10 £45,375 +0.83% 13
South East +79 10 £41,250 +10.00% 9
Midlands +65 7 £45,000 -7.69%
London +114 6 £73,750 +40.48% 18
East Midlands +44 6 £45,000 +5.88%
South West +119 4 £40,000 +23.08%
North of England +33 4 £38,750 -11.43% 6
North West -6 4 £38,750 -8.82% 5
West Midlands +64 1 £55,000 -

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 23 (74.19%) Test Automation
3 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
4 15 (48.39%) Agile
5 14 (45.16%) Azure
5 14 (45.16%) Manual Testing
5 14 (45.16%) Software Testing
6 12 (38.71%) Regression Testing
6 12 (38.71%) User Experience
7 10 (32.26%) DevOps
8 9 (29.03%) Power BI
8 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
9 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
10 7 (22.58%) E-Commerce
10 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (19.35%) DBS Check
11 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
11 6 (19.35%) SQL
11 6 (19.35%) Selenium
11 6 (19.35%) Test Management
11 6 (19.35%) Test Scripting
12 5 (16.13%) AWS
12 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
12 5 (16.13%) SDLC
12 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (16.13%) Mobile App
12 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
12 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Culture

QA 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.13%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Selenium
2 4 (12.90%) Appium
2 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.68%) JIRA
3 3 (9.68%) LoadRunner
3 3 (9.68%) Postman
3 3 (9.68%) TestRail
4 2 (6.45%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.45%) Gatling
4 2 (6.45%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.45%) Locust
4 2 (6.45%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.23%) JMeter
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Games
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Playwright
2 1 (3.23%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Robotics
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Android
1 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Test Automation
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 14 (45.16%) Manual Testing
3 14 (45.16%) Software Testing
4 12 (38.71%) Regression Testing
4 12 (38.71%) User Experience
5 10 (32.26%) DevOps
6 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (22.58%) E-Commerce
8 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (19.35%) Test Management
8 6 (19.35%) Test Scripting
9 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (16.13%) SDLC
9 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
10 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
2 6 (19.35%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.45%) PMP
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.23%) Spotify