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 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 847 787
Rank change year-on-year +152 -60 +260
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 35 52 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.052% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.055% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 30 49 108
10th Percentile £36,250 £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% -5.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,125 £53,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 50,706 94,386 91,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.69% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,254 67,482 57,423
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 17 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 17 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 +123 35 £42,875 +9.94% 14
UK excluding London +171 29 £41,250 +10.00% 8
South East +75 12 £40,000 +6.67%
Work from Home +117 9 £47,500 +5.56% 7
North of England +39 7 £43,250 -1.14% 3
North West -3 7 £43,250 +1.76% 3
London +104 6 £73,750 +40.48% 10
Midlands +65 6 £45,000 -7.69% 1
East Midlands +24 5 £45,000 +5.88% 1
South West +112 4 £40,000 +23.08%
West Midlands +56 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 35 (100.00%) QA
2 25 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 17 (48.57%) Manual Testing
3 17 (48.57%) Software Testing
4 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 14 (40.00%) User Experience
5 14 (40.00%) Azure
5 14 (40.00%) Agile
6 11 (31.43%) Regression Testing
7 10 (28.57%) ISTQB
7 10 (28.57%) DevOps
8 9 (25.71%) Power BI
8 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
8 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
9 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (20.00%) Selenium
11 6 (17.14%) SaaS
11 6 (17.14%) Test Management
11 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
11 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
11 6 (17.14%) DBS Check
11 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
11 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (14.29%) TestRail
12 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
12 5 (14.29%) SQL
12 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel

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 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
3 6 (17.14%) SaaS
4 5 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Selenium
2 5 (14.29%) TestRail
3 4 (11.43%) Appium
3 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
3 4 (11.43%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.71%) Gatling
5 2 (5.71%) Git
5 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.71%) Locust
5 2 (5.71%) Zephyr
6 1 (2.86%) JIRA
6 1 (2.86%) JMeter
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (8.57%) Games
5 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
2 1 (2.86%) Swagger
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Robotics
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Android
1 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 17 (48.57%) Manual Testing
2 17 (48.57%) Software Testing
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) User Experience
4 11 (31.43%) Regression Testing
5 10 (28.57%) DevOps
6 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
7 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (17.14%) Test Management
8 6 (17.14%) Test Strategy
9 5 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (14.29%) Performance Testing
9 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) Test Scripting
9 5 (14.29%) Web Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Coaching
10 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (11.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 6 (17.14%) DBS Check
3 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.71%) PMP
5 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Spotify