Senior Test Analyst Job Trends

Senior Test Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Analyst salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 660 710
Rank change year-on-year +19 +50 +229
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 12 39 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.073% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.078% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 10
10th Percentile - £45,075 £40,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £54,063 £54,688
90th Percentile - £70,000 £59,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Test Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
UK excluding London +40 11 £42,500 -10.53% 1
England +35 11 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Work from Home +64 10 £42,500 -39.29% 1
South East +25 10 £42,500 -10.53% 1
London +46 1 £72,500 +3.57%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior Test Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) API Testing
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
1 11 (91.67%) Postman
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
1 11 (91.67%) Test Scripting
2 10 (83.33%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) C#
2 10 (83.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 10 (83.33%) HTML
2 10 (83.33%) ISTQB
2 10 (83.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 10 (83.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
2 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 10 (83.33%) SOAP
2 10 (83.33%) SoapUI
2 10 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (83.33%) Test Management
2 10 (83.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (16.67%) Logistics
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Avro
4 1 (8.33%) AWS

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (8.33%) Parquet
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JIRA
1 11 (91.67%) Postman
2 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 10 (83.33%) SoapUI
2 10 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (83.33%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) .NET
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
1 11 (91.67%) API Testing
1 11 (91.67%) Test Scripting
2 10 (83.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 10 (83.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
2 10 (83.33%) Software Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Test Management
3 2 (16.67%) Logistics
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Validation
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 10 (83.33%) C#
2 10 (83.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Degree
1 10 (83.33%) ISTQB
1 10 (83.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) SAP