Quality Analyst Jobs

Quality Analyst
UK

The median Quality Analyst salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 865 876
Rank change year-on-year +189 +11 +275
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 33 47 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.046% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.048% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 24 38 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,960 £41,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £28,875 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,500 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £37,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.51% -29.52% +5.00%

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 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Analyst over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality 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 Quality Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +145 31 £55,000 +41.03% 19
UK excluding London +177 17 £42,000 +13.51% 16
London +117 15 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Midlands +94 9 £45,000 -25.00%
North of England +48 7 £41,500 +66.27% 10
Work from Home +112 6 £40,000 -2.44% 13
East Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
North West - 5 £42,500 - 5
West Midlands +60 3 £50,000 -16.67%
Yorkshire - 2 £41,500 - 5
Scotland +117 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Quality 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 Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (57.58%) QA
2 16 (48.48%) Data Quality
3 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
4 12 (36.36%) Data Management
5 10 (30.30%) Finance
5 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (27.27%) SQL
6 9 (27.27%) Migration
6 9 (27.27%) Power BI
6 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
6 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (24.24%) Data Migration
7 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
8 7 (21.21%) Manual Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
9 6 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (18.18%) Degree
9 6 (18.18%) Tableau
10 5 (15.15%) Azure
10 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (15.15%) ISTQB
10 5 (15.15%) Agile
10 5 (15.15%) Postman
10 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (12.12%) Code Quality
11 4 (12.12%) Accessibility
11 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (12.12%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight

Quality 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 3 (9.09%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Tableau
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) Metadata
3 3 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Postman
2 4 (12.12%) Selenium
3 3 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) Gatling
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) JMeter
3 3 (9.09%) JUnit
3 3 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 3 (9.09%) TestCafe
3 3 (9.09%) TestNG
4 1 (3.03%) Android Studio
4 1 (3.03%) Appium
4 1 (3.03%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) TestRail
4 1 (3.03%) Xcode
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Marketing
6 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.06%) Law
7 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Games
8 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) React
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Data Management
2 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (27.27%) Migration
3 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Data Migration
4 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
5 7 (21.21%) Manual Testing
6 6 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.12%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Security Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (57.58%) QA
2 16 (48.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (12.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (9.09%) GDPR
5 2 (6.06%) PMO
6 1 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft