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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 736 612 681
Rank change year-on-year -124 +69 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 71 58 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 53 44 72
10th Percentile £27,000 - £30,422
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £54,775 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -16.67%

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 108,680 43,895 71,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.63% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,405 25,767 42,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 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
England -112 67 £42,500 - 50
UK excluding London -112 65 £42,500 +6.25% 27
South East -48 23 £52,500 +31.25% 11
Work from Home -56 23 £40,500 -4.71% 21
Midlands -49 15 £40,000 -15.79% 4
South West -71 11 £45,000 +12.50% 3
East Midlands - 9 £40,000 -
North of England - 8 £41,250 - 2
West Midlands -41 6 £43,750 -7.89% 4
East of England -36 5 £28,250 - 8
London -75 4 £90,000 +68.22% 19
North West - 4 £40,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £42,500 - 1
Scotland - 3 £50,000 -
North East - 1 £40,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 2026, 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 30 (42.25%) Test Automation
2 24 (33.80%) SQL
3 22 (30.99%) Agile
3 22 (30.99%) QA
3 22 (30.99%) Software Testing
4 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (26.76%) Manual Testing
6 17 (23.94%) Scenario Testing
6 17 (23.94%) SDLC
7 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (22.54%) Regression Testing
8 14 (19.72%) Non-Functional Testing
8 14 (19.72%) Selenium
9 13 (18.31%) DevOps
9 13 (18.31%) ISTQB
10 12 (16.90%) Scrum
10 12 (16.90%) Test Scripting
11 11 (15.49%) Azure
11 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (14.08%) Java
12 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (12.68%) API Testing
13 9 (12.68%) Code Quality
13 9 (12.68%) Degree
13 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
13 9 (12.68%) JIRA
13 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
13 9 (12.68%) User Experience
14 8 (11.27%) BDD
14 8 (11.27%) C#

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 6 (8.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Magento
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) Azure
1 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (5.63%) AWS
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (2.82%) Serverless
4 1 (1.41%) Apigee
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.41%) Kong
4 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.82%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Selenium
2 9 (12.68%) JIRA
3 7 (9.86%) Postman
4 5 (7.04%) JMeter
4 5 (7.04%) SoapUI
5 4 (5.63%) SpecFlow
5 4 (5.63%) Zephyr
6 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.23%) Git
6 3 (4.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.82%) Appium
7 2 (2.82%) GitLab
7 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.82%) Ranorex
8 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.41%) Gatling
8 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.41%) TestNG
8 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Retail
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Automotive
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) Playwright
2 5 (7.04%) SOAP
3 4 (5.63%) Gherkin
4 3 (4.23%) .NET
4 3 (4.23%) HTML
5 2 (2.82%) ADO
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) PySpark
5 2 (2.82%) XML
6 1 (1.41%) JWT
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.41%) React
6 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) CMDB
5 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.41%) FMCG
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Test Automation
2 22 (30.99%) Agile
2 22 (30.99%) Software Testing
3 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (26.76%) Manual Testing
5 17 (23.94%) Scenario Testing
5 17 (23.94%) SDLC
6 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (22.54%) Regression Testing
7 14 (19.72%) Non-Functional Testing
8 13 (18.31%) DevOps
9 12 (16.90%) Scrum
9 12 (16.90%) Test Scripting
10 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (12.68%) API Testing
11 9 (12.68%) Code Quality
11 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
11 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
11 9 (12.68%) User Experience
12 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.80%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) Java
3 8 (11.27%) C#
4 7 (9.86%) Python
5 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) ISTQB
2 9 (12.68%) Degree
3 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) ISEB
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (30.99%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Grafana
1 1 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) SAP
3 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Informatica
4 2 (2.82%) Pega
5 1 (1.41%) Siemens