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 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 580 649
Rank change year-on-year +3 +69 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 84 94 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 57 66 138
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,713 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £51,500 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,750 £58,750 £57,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -5.88%

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 62,963 43,992 71,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 91.41% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,692 23,186 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 February 2026.

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 23 February 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 +10 81 £42,500 -10.53% 20
UK excluding London -8 62 £40,000 -15.79% 17
South East +9 43 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Work from Home +41 31 £45,000 +26.76% 2
London +39 21 £50,000 -11.11% 4
North of England -26 8 £26,000 -40.91% 5
Yorkshire -27 6 £26,000 -19.96% 1
Midlands -10 5 £37,500 -21.05% 6
East Midlands -22 4 £36,250 -23.68% 2
South West -13 3 £45,000 - 1
East of England +5 1 £70,000 +211.11% 1
Wales +3 1 £50,000 -
West Midlands +1 1 £45,000 -5.26% 4
North West -3 1 £40,000 -10.11% 2
North East - 1 £26,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 February 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 43 (51.19%) JIRA
2 40 (47.62%) Test Management
3 37 (44.05%) Test Automation
3 37 (44.05%) Test Scripting
4 32 (38.10%) Agile
5 30 (35.71%) Software Testing
6 29 (34.52%) SQL
7 28 (33.33%) ISTQB
8 26 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (30.95%) SAP
9 25 (29.76%) .NET
10 24 (28.57%) Degree
10 24 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
11 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (27.38%) ERP
11 23 (27.38%) Manual Testing
11 23 (27.38%) Regression Testing
11 23 (27.38%) Selenium
12 22 (26.19%) Programme Management
12 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (25.00%) C#
13 21 (25.00%) eCATT
13 21 (25.00%) HP
13 21 (25.00%) HP ALM
13 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
13 21 (25.00%) QA
13 21 (25.00%) Risk Management
13 21 (25.00%) Roadmaps
13 21 (25.00%) Source to Pay
13 21 (25.00%) Visualisation

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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
Business Applications
1 24 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) Postilion
3 1 (1.19%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (5.95%) AWS
2 5 (5.95%) Azure
2 5 (5.95%) SaaS
3 4 (4.76%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.38%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) DNS
1 3 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Parquet
3 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (51.19%) JIRA
2 23 (27.38%) Selenium
3 21 (25.00%) eCATT
4 17 (20.24%) Postman
5 16 (19.05%) SoapUI
6 15 (17.86%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (15.48%) WebDriver
8 12 (14.29%) NeoLoad
9 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
9 4 (4.76%) SpecFlow
10 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
10 3 (3.57%) GitLab
11 2 (2.38%) JMeter
12 1 (1.19%) TestRail
General
1 45 (53.57%) Finance
2 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.19%) Manufacturing
3 22 (26.19%) Marketing
3 22 (26.19%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.14%) Banking
7 4 (4.76%) Back Office
7 4 (4.76%) Law
8 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Advertising
10 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Electronics
10 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) .NET
2 19 (22.62%) HTML
3 15 (17.86%) SOAP
4 9 (10.71%) Playwright
5 5 (5.95%) React
6 4 (4.76%) CSS
6 4 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (4.76%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.38%) REST
8 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.19%) ADO
8 1 (1.19%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.19%) JSON
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.19%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) Derivative
2 4 (4.76%) Equities
2 4 (4.76%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) IoT
4 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
1 8 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) Test Management
2 37 (44.05%) Test Automation
2 37 (44.05%) Test Scripting
3 32 (38.10%) Agile
4 30 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (27.38%) ERP
5 23 (27.38%) Manual Testing
5 23 (27.38%) Regression Testing
6 22 (26.19%) Programme Management
6 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
7 21 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 21 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 21 (25.00%) Source to Pay
7 21 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 20 (23.81%) API Testing
8 20 (23.81%) Scrum
8 20 (23.81%) User Experience
9 19 (22.62%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.52%) SQL
2 21 (25.00%) C#
3 20 (23.81%) Java
4 9 (10.71%) Python
5 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 24 (28.57%) Degree
3 13 (15.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 10 (11.90%) ISEB
5 9 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) SEPA
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.57%) Ansible
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) SAP
2 21 (25.00%) HP
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.57%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Siebel
7 1 (1.19%) Genesys
7 1 (1.19%) NCR
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Workday