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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 561 667
Rank change year-on-year -46 +106 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 84 92 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 76 142
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,750 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +4.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £57,375 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +13.55% -8.82%

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 68,739 38,903 80,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.47% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,768 23,119 61,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -22 81 £42,500 -5.03% 16
UK excluding London -37 65 £40,000 -9.09% 12
South East -5 42 £42,500 -10.53% 2
Work from Home +18 29 £45,000 +16.44% 4
London +19 18 £47,500 -15.56% 6
North of England -37 8 £26,000 -38.64% 2
South West -23 6 £46,250 +15.63% 2
Yorkshire -35 6 £26,000 -19.96%
Midlands -26 5 £37,500 -15.73% 3
East Midlands -31 4 £36,250 -23.68% 1
East of England -13 2 £51,250 +57.69% 1
West Midlands 0 1 £45,000 +9.76% 2
Wales -16 1 £50,000 - 2
North West -21 1 £40,000 -9.09% 2
North East - 1 £26,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 41 (48.81%) JIRA
2 39 (46.43%) Test Management
3 38 (45.24%) Test Scripting
4 37 (44.05%) Test Automation
5 32 (38.10%) Software Testing
6 31 (36.90%) Agile
7 29 (34.52%) ISTQB
8 27 (32.14%) Degree
8 27 (32.14%) SQL
9 26 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (29.76%) .NET
10 25 (29.76%) SAP
11 24 (28.57%) Manual Testing
11 24 (28.57%) Regression Testing
12 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (27.38%) ERP
12 23 (27.38%) HP
12 23 (27.38%) SAP S/4HANA
13 22 (26.19%) Programme Management
13 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (25.00%) eCATT
14 21 (25.00%) HP ALM
14 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
14 21 (25.00%) Risk Management
14 21 (25.00%) Roadmaps
14 21 (25.00%) Selenium
14 21 (25.00%) Source to Pay
14 21 (25.00%) Visualisation
15 20 (23.81%) C#
15 20 (23.81%) QA

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 1 (1.19%) CMS
1 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (27.38%) 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 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.19%) Tricentis Tosca
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%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Parquet
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (48.81%) JIRA
2 21 (25.00%) eCATT
2 21 (25.00%) Selenium
3 16 (19.05%) Postman
4 15 (17.86%) SoapUI
5 14 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (14.29%) NeoLoad
6 12 (14.29%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.76%) SpecFlow
8 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.57%) GitLab
8 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.38%) JMeter
General
1 42 (50.00%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 23 (27.38%) Manufacturing
4 22 (26.19%) Marketing
4 22 (26.19%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.33%) Banking
8 4 (4.76%) Back Office
8 4 (4.76%) Law
9 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.38%) Electronics
10 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.38%) Retail
11 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) .NET
2 18 (21.43%) HTML
3 14 (16.67%) SOAP
4 9 (10.71%) Playwright
5 6 (7.14%) 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%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Windows
2 7 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) Test Management
2 38 (45.24%) Test Scripting
3 37 (44.05%) Test Automation
4 32 (38.10%) Software Testing
5 31 (36.90%) Agile
6 24 (28.57%) Manual Testing
6 24 (28.57%) Regression Testing
7 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (27.38%) ERP
8 22 (26.19%) Programme Management
8 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
9 21 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 21 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 21 (25.00%) Source to Pay
9 21 (25.00%) Visualisation
10 20 (23.81%) Scrum
10 20 (23.81%) User Experience
11 19 (22.62%) API Testing
12 18 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) SQL
2 20 (23.81%) C#
3 18 (21.43%) Java
4 8 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.33%) Python
6 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 2 (2.38%) C++
8 2 (2.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 29 (34.52%) ISTQB
2 27 (32.14%) Degree
3 12 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 11 (13.10%) ISEB
5 10 (11.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.81%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Firmware
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 25 (29.76%) SAP
2 23 (27.38%) HP
3 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (3.57%) Splunk
5 2 (2.38%) Siebel
6 1 (1.19%) Genesys
6 1 (1.19%) NCR
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.19%) Workday