Test Analyst Job Trends

Test Analyst
UK

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 645 609
Rank change year-on-year +73 -36 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 93 101 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 56 72 95
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,925 £31,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,938 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,813 £51,250
90th Percentile £58,250 £76,250 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.88%

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 46,066 64,284 51,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 95.03% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,668 36,353 39,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

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 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Top 16 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 8 November 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 +73 84 £42,500 -10.53% 61
UK excluding London +85 71 £40,000 -9.09% 56
South East +60 49 £42,500 +13.33% 23
Work from Home +53 35 £45,000 +18.42% 27
London +61 19 £53,500 -14.40% 19
Midlands +63 7 £35,000 -39.13% 1
Wales - 5 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands +22 4 £36,250 +11.54%
East of England +20 4 £70,000 +108.30% 7
West Midlands +41 3 £32,500 -43.48% 1
South West +28 2 £40,000 -48.39% 13
North of England +4 2 £32,500 -26.97% 6
North West +9 1 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire +3 1 £25,000 -23.04% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 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 47 (50.54%) Agile
2 45 (48.39%) Test Automation
3 43 (46.24%) Software Testing
4 41 (44.09%) ISTQB
4 41 (44.09%) JIRA
4 41 (44.09%) Test Management
5 37 (39.78%) Test Scripting
6 35 (37.63%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (36.56%) SQL
8 28 (30.11%) Performance Testing
8 28 (30.11%) Scrum
9 26 (27.96%) QA
9 26 (27.96%) Selenium
10 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (26.88%) Manual Testing
10 25 (26.88%) Regression Testing
11 24 (25.81%) ERP
11 24 (25.81%) Mentoring
11 24 (25.81%) SAP
12 23 (24.73%) SAP S/4HANA
13 22 (23.66%) Programme Management
13 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (22.58%) Degree
14 21 (22.58%) eCATT
14 21 (22.58%) HP
14 21 (22.58%) HP ALM
14 21 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
14 21 (22.58%) Risk Management
14 21 (22.58%) Roadmaps
14 21 (22.58%) Source to Pay

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 (2.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (24.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.45%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.08%) Postilion
3 1 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (17.20%) Azure
3 3 (3.23%) AWS
4 2 (2.15%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) ATM
1 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 41 (44.09%) JIRA
2 26 (27.96%) Selenium
3 21 (22.58%) eCATT
4 16 (17.20%) Postman
5 14 (15.05%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (12.90%) NeoLoad
6 12 (12.90%) SoapUI
7 10 (10.75%) WebDriver
8 5 (5.38%) TestRail
9 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
9 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
9 4 (4.30%) SpecFlow
10 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.15%) Gatling
10 2 (2.15%) Git
10 2 (2.15%) JMeter
10 2 (2.15%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.15%) Locust
10 2 (2.15%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (51.61%) Finance
2 22 (23.66%) Manufacturing
2 22 (23.66%) Marketing
2 22 (23.66%) Presentation Skills
3 21 (22.58%) Influencing Skills
4 17 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.60%) Legal
6 5 (5.38%) Law
7 4 (4.30%) Banking
7 4 (4.30%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.15%) Back Office
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Automotive
10 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Electronics
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.28%) .NET
2 12 (12.90%) HTML
3 10 (10.75%) SOAP
4 8 (8.60%) Playwright
5 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.15%) CSS
6 2 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.15%) Middleware
6 2 (2.15%) React
7 1 (1.08%) ADO
7 1 (1.08%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.08%) JSON
7 1 (1.08%) Node.js
7 1 (1.08%) REST
7 1 (1.08%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.75%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.15%) AS400
3 2 (2.15%) Derivative
3 2 (2.15%) Equities
3 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.08%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.08%) FMCG
4 1 (1.08%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.08%) IoT
4 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.54%) Agile
2 45 (48.39%) Test Automation
3 43 (46.24%) Software Testing
4 41 (44.09%) Test Management
5 37 (39.78%) Test Scripting
6 28 (30.11%) Performance Testing
6 28 (30.11%) Scrum
7 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (26.88%) Manual Testing
7 25 (26.88%) Regression Testing
8 24 (25.81%) ERP
8 24 (25.81%) Mentoring
9 22 (23.66%) Programme Management
9 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
10 21 (22.58%) Risk Management
10 21 (22.58%) Roadmaps
10 21 (22.58%) Source to Pay
10 21 (22.58%) Visualisation
11 20 (21.51%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.56%) SQL
2 18 (19.35%) C#
3 16 (17.20%) Java
4 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.53%) Python
5 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (44.09%) ISTQB
2 21 (22.58%) Degree
3 18 (19.35%) ISEB
4 12 (12.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 10 (10.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.96%) QA
2 11 (11.83%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.58%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (25.81%) SAP
2 21 (22.58%) HP
3 19 (20.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.45%) iManage
5 5 (5.38%) Oracle
6 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.15%) Aderant
7 2 (2.15%) IBM
7 2 (2.15%) Intapp
7 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.15%) Workday
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco
8 1 (1.08%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.08%) Genesys
8 1 (1.08%) NCR
8 1 (1.08%) Siebel