Test Analyst Job Trends

Test Analyst
UK

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK is £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 641 606
Rank change year-on-year +92 -35 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 98 111 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 81 86
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £47,500 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +16.56% -9.44%
75th Percentile £51,500 £58,750 £48,809
90th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -11.76%

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 50,261 59,063 47,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 94.04% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,429 32,705 37,339
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 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 +76 90 £42,500 -10.53% 19
UK excluding London +81 73 £40,000 -11.11% 17
South East +47 52 £42,500 -10.53% 14
Work from Home +69 38 £45,000 +18.42% 12
London +56 22 £53,500 -6.96% 7
Midlands +31 6 £36,250 -36.96% 1
Wales +10 5 £50,000 -
East of England +23 4 £70,000 +133.33%
East Midlands +17 4 £36,250 +11.54% 1
North of England +23 3 £26,000 -40.91% 2
West Midlands +33 2 £38,750 -32.61%
South West +26 2 £37,625 -51.45%
Yorkshire -3 2 £25,500 -21.50%
North West +33 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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 Test Analyst in the job title.

1 49 (50.00%) Agile
2 46 (46.94%) JIRA
2 46 (46.94%) Software Testing
2 46 (46.94%) Test Automation
3 45 (45.92%) ISTQB
3 45 (45.92%) Test Management
4 41 (41.84%) Test Scripting
5 39 (39.80%) SQL
6 32 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (32.65%) Scrum
7 30 (30.61%) Selenium
8 28 (28.57%) Regression Testing
9 27 (27.55%) QA
10 26 (26.53%) Degree
10 26 (26.53%) Manual Testing
10 26 (26.53%) Performance Testing
11 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (25.51%) Mentoring
11 25 (25.51%) SAP
12 24 (24.49%) API Testing
12 24 (24.49%) SAP S/4HANA
13 23 (23.47%) .NET
13 23 (23.47%) ERP
13 23 (23.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (22.45%) C#
14 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (22.45%) Programme Management
15 21 (21.43%) eCATT
15 21 (21.43%) HP
15 21 (21.43%) HP ALM

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 2 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) CMS
2 1 (1.02%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (24.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.12%) Elite 3E
3 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.02%) Postilion
4 1 (1.02%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (12.24%) Azure
3 2 (2.04%) AWS
3 2 (2.04%) SaaS
3 2 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.02%) GCP
4 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.02%) MySQL
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.02%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 46 (46.94%) JIRA
2 30 (30.61%) Selenium
3 21 (21.43%) eCATT
4 20 (20.41%) Postman
5 19 (19.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (17.35%) SoapUI
7 14 (14.29%) WebDriver
8 12 (12.24%) NeoLoad
9 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.08%) SpecFlow
10 4 (4.08%) TestRail
11 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
11 2 (2.04%) JMeter
12 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
12 1 (1.02%) Gatling
12 1 (1.02%) Git
12 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
12 1 (1.02%) Locust
12 1 (1.02%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (52.04%) Finance
2 22 (22.45%) Manufacturing
2 22 (22.45%) Marketing
2 22 (22.45%) Presentation Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Legal
6 6 (6.12%) Banking
6 6 (6.12%) Law
7 4 (4.08%) Back Office
7 4 (4.08%) Retail
8 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.02%) Advertising
10 1 (1.02%) Automotive
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Electronics
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) .NET
2 19 (19.39%) HTML
3 15 (15.31%) SOAP
4 10 (10.20%) Playwright
5 4 (4.08%) CSS
5 4 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (4.08%) Gherkin
5 4 (4.08%) React
6 3 (3.06%) REST
7 2 (2.04%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.04%) Middleware
8 1 (1.02%) ADO
8 1 (1.02%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
1 10 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.08%) Derivative
2 4 (4.08%) Equities
2 4 (4.08%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.02%) AS400
3 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.02%) FMCG
3 1 (1.02%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.02%) IoT
3 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (5.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.00%) Agile
2 46 (46.94%) Software Testing
2 46 (46.94%) Test Automation
3 45 (45.92%) Test Management
4 41 (41.84%) Test Scripting
5 32 (32.65%) Scrum
6 28 (28.57%) Regression Testing
7 26 (26.53%) Manual Testing
7 26 (26.53%) Performance Testing
8 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (25.51%) Mentoring
9 24 (24.49%) API Testing
10 23 (23.47%) ERP
10 23 (23.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (22.45%) Programme Management
12 21 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
12 21 (21.43%) Roadmaps
12 21 (21.43%) Source to Pay
12 21 (21.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) SQL
2 22 (22.45%) C#
3 21 (21.43%) Java
4 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.14%) Python
5 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (45.92%) ISTQB
2 26 (26.53%) Degree
3 19 (19.39%) ISEB
4 16 (16.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 11 (11.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.55%) QA
2 9 (9.18%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) SAP
2 21 (21.43%) HP
3 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.12%) iManage
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle
6 4 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.04%) Aderant
7 2 (2.04%) IBM
7 2 (2.04%) Intapp
7 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.04%) Workday
8 1 (1.02%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.02%) Genesys
8 1 (1.02%) NCR
8 1 (1.02%) Siebel