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 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 609 600
Rank change year-on-year +64 -9 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 93 97 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 64 70 106
10th Percentile £31,625 £31,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £51,625 £53,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £46,624 £40,000
% change year-on-year -14.21% +16.56% -8.05%

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 55,337 49,207 56,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34,211 25,429 43,890
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 19 January 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 19 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
England +59 89 £42,500 -10.53% 49
UK excluding London +50 70 £40,000 -14.21% 50
South East +52 54 £42,500 -10.53% 16
Work from Home +74 36 £43,750 +21.53% 9
London +57 21 £53,500 -6.96% 5
Midlands +16 5 £37,500 -21.05% 7
North of England +2 5 £26,000 -40.91% 11
East Midlands -8 4 £36,250 -23.68% 5
Yorkshire -19 4 £26,000 -19.96% 5
Wales +6 2 £51,000 - 3
South West +5 2 £37,625 - 6
West Midlands +23 1 £45,000 +5.88% 2
East of England +21 1 £70,000 +133.33% 6
North West +4 1 £40,000 -9.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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 49 (52.69%) JIRA
1 49 (52.69%) Test Management
2 44 (47.31%) Agile
2 44 (47.31%) ISTQB
2 44 (47.31%) Software Testing
3 41 (44.09%) SQL
3 41 (44.09%) Test Automation
4 40 (43.01%) Test Scripting
5 32 (34.41%) Scrum
6 31 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (31.18%) .NET
7 29 (31.18%) Degree
7 29 (31.18%) Selenium
8 27 (29.03%) Java
8 27 (29.03%) Regression Testing
9 26 (27.96%) C#
10 25 (26.88%) API Testing
10 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (26.88%) HTML
10 25 (26.88%) Mentoring
10 25 (26.88%) SAP
10 25 (26.88%) Team Foundation Server
11 24 (25.81%) QA
11 24 (25.81%) SAP S/4HANA
12 23 (24.73%) Manual Testing
12 23 (24.73%) Non-Functional Testing
12 23 (24.73%) Postman
13 22 (23.66%) ERP
13 22 (23.66%) Performance Testing
13 22 (23.66%) Programme Management

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%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (25.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.08%) Postilion
3 1 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (11.83%) Azure
3 5 (5.38%) AWS
4 4 (4.30%) GCP
4 4 (4.30%) SaaS
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.15%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) DNS
1 3 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.08%) MySQL
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (52.69%) JIRA
2 29 (31.18%) Selenium
3 25 (26.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 23 (24.73%) Postman
5 22 (23.66%) SoapUI
6 21 (22.58%) eCATT
7 19 (20.43%) WebDriver
8 12 (12.90%) NeoLoad
9 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
10 4 (4.30%) SpecFlow
11 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.23%) GitLab
12 2 (2.15%) JMeter
12 2 (2.15%) TestRail
13 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 1 (1.08%) Gatling
13 1 (1.08%) Git
13 1 (1.08%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.08%) Locust
13 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (53.76%) Finance
2 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.66%) Manufacturing
3 22 (23.66%) Marketing
3 22 (23.66%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (22.58%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.60%) Law
7 6 (6.45%) Banking
8 4 (4.30%) Back Office
8 4 (4.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.15%) Retail
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Electronics
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) .NET
2 25 (26.88%) HTML
3 21 (22.58%) SOAP
4 7 (7.53%) Playwright
5 4 (4.30%) CSS
5 4 (4.30%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
5 4 (4.30%) React
6 2 (2.15%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.15%) REST
7 1 (1.08%) ADO
7 1 (1.08%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Derivative
3 4 (4.30%) Equities
3 4 (4.30%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.08%) IoT
4 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Windows
2 8 (8.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) Test Management
2 44 (47.31%) Agile
2 44 (47.31%) Software Testing
3 41 (44.09%) Test Automation
4 40 (43.01%) Test Scripting
5 32 (34.41%) Scrum
6 27 (29.03%) Regression Testing
7 25 (26.88%) API Testing
7 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (26.88%) Mentoring
8 23 (24.73%) Manual Testing
8 23 (24.73%) Non-Functional Testing
9 22 (23.66%) ERP
9 22 (23.66%) Performance Testing
9 22 (23.66%) Programme Management
9 22 (23.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (22.58%) Cross-Browser Testing
10 21 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
10 21 (22.58%) Roadmaps
10 21 (22.58%) Source to Pay
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) SQL
2 27 (29.03%) Java
3 26 (27.96%) C#
4 10 (10.75%) Python
5 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.23%) Bash
8 3 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (47.31%) ISTQB
2 29 (31.18%) Degree
3 20 (21.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 16 (17.20%) ISEB
5 11 (11.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.81%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.58%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.23%) Ansible
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) SAP
2 21 (22.58%) HP
3 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle
5 4 (4.30%) iManage
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.08%) Genesys
7 1 (1.08%) NCR
7 1 (1.08%) Siebel