QA Analyst Jobs

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK

The median Quality Assurance Analyst salary in the UK is £39,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 803 1020
Rank change year-on-year -39 +217 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 52 190 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49 115 133
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £68,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% +11.76%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Top 13 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 26 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 -15 51 £39,000 -17.89% 14
UK excluding London -108 38 £37,500 -6.25% 11
Work from Home +33 23 £45,000 -10.00% 4
South East +9 21 £37,500 -25.00% 4
London +117 13 £50,000 -4.76% 3
North of England +10 11 £43,750 +9.38% 4
North West -17 10 £42,500 +30.77% 3
South West -22 3 £32,500 -35.00% 2
Midlands -7 2 £48,750 +21.88% 1
West Midlands +27 1 £55,000 +26.44% 1
East Midlands -31 1 £42,500 +6.25%
North East - 1 £52,500 -
Scotland - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 52 (100.00%) QA
2 36 (69.23%) Test Automation
3 26 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 21 (40.38%) Selenium
4 21 (40.38%) Test Scripting
5 20 (38.46%) SaaS
6 19 (36.54%) Agile
7 18 (34.62%) ISTQB
8 16 (30.77%) Manual Testing
8 16 (30.77%) Regression Testing
8 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
9 13 (25.00%) Web Testing
10 11 (21.15%) Scrum
10 11 (21.15%) Test Strategy
10 11 (21.15%) User Experience
11 9 (17.31%) Web Development
11 9 (17.31%) JIRA
11 9 (17.31%) E-Commerce
11 9 (17.31%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
12 8 (15.38%) Customer Experience
12 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.38%) SQL
12 8 (15.38%) C#
12 8 (15.38%) DevOps
13 7 (13.46%) Azure
13 7 (13.46%) Postman
13 7 (13.46%) Acceptance Criteria
14 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
14 6 (11.54%) Code Quality

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) SaaS
2 7 (13.46%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) Selenium
2 9 (17.31%) JIRA
3 7 (13.46%) Postman
4 6 (11.54%) TestRail
5 4 (7.69%) JMeter
6 3 (5.77%) SoapUI
6 3 (5.77%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.77%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.85%) Git
7 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.85%) TestComplete
8 1 (1.92%) Appium
8 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.92%) git-flow
8 1 (1.92%) GitLab
8 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.92%) NUnit
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Playwright
1 4 (7.69%) RESTful
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.92%) COM
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) SOAP
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (11.54%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Bitcoin
4 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Android
2 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 26 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 21 (40.38%) Test Scripting
4 19 (36.54%) Agile
5 16 (30.77%) Manual Testing
5 16 (30.77%) Regression Testing
6 13 (25.00%) Web Testing
7 11 (21.15%) Scrum
7 11 (21.15%) Test Strategy
7 11 (21.15%) User Experience
8 9 (17.31%) E-Commerce
8 9 (17.31%) Web Development
9 8 (15.38%) Customer Experience
9 8 (15.38%) DevOps
9 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.46%) Acceptance Criteria
11 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
11 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
11 6 (11.54%) Defect Management
12 5 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) C#
1 8 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.77%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) ISEB
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.92%) Databricks
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