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 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 626 595
Rank change year-on-year +81 -31 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 97 112 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 61 81 87
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £51,500 £58,750 £48,809
90th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £55,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -12.79%

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 49,330 59,759 47,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.19% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,185 33,142 37,246
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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 +101 89 £42,500 -10.53% 17
UK excluding London +68 72 £40,000 -11.11% 17
South East +64 51 £42,500 -10.53% 14
Work from Home +71 36 £45,000 +18.42% 12
London +48 22 £53,500 -6.96% 5
Midlands +53 6 £36,250 -36.96% 1
Wales +12 5 £50,000 -
East of England +36 4 £70,000 +133.33% 1
East Midlands +19 4 £36,250 +11.54% 1
North of England +15 3 £26,000 -41.57% 1
West Midlands +41 2 £38,750 -32.61%
South West +20 2 £37,625 -51.45%
Yorkshire -2 2 £25,500 -21.50%
North West +32 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 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 48 (49.48%) Agile
2 46 (47.42%) Test Automation
3 45 (46.39%) Software Testing
4 44 (45.36%) ISTQB
4 44 (45.36%) JIRA
5 43 (44.33%) Test Management
6 39 (40.21%) Test Scripting
7 38 (39.18%) SQL
8 33 (34.02%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (31.96%) Scrum
10 28 (28.87%) QA
10 28 (28.87%) Regression Testing
10 28 (28.87%) Selenium
11 26 (26.80%) Manual Testing
11 26 (26.80%) Performance Testing
12 25 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (25.77%) Mentoring
12 25 (25.77%) SAP
13 24 (24.74%) Degree
13 24 (24.74%) SAP S/4HANA
14 23 (23.71%) ERP
14 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (23.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 22 (22.68%) API Testing
15 22 (22.68%) Programme Management
16 21 (21.65%) .NET
16 21 (21.65%) eCATT
16 21 (21.65%) HP
16 21 (21.65%) HP ALM
16 21 (21.65%) Product Roadmap

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 (2.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) CMS
2 1 (1.03%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 15 (15.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (24.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.19%) Elite 3E
3 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.03%) Postilion
4 1 (1.03%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.02%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (13.40%) Azure
3 2 (2.06%) AWS
3 2 (2.06%) SaaS
3 2 (2.06%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.03%) GCP
4 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.03%) MySQL
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 44 (45.36%) JIRA
2 28 (28.87%) Selenium
3 21 (21.65%) eCATT
4 18 (18.56%) Postman
5 17 (17.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (15.46%) SoapUI
7 12 (12.37%) NeoLoad
7 12 (12.37%) WebDriver
8 5 (5.15%) Cypress.io
9 4 (4.12%) SpecFlow
9 4 (4.12%) TestRail
10 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
10 2 (2.06%) JMeter
11 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.03%) Gatling
11 1 (1.03%) Git
11 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.03%) Locust
11 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (51.55%) Finance
2 22 (22.68%) Manufacturing
2 22 (22.68%) Marketing
2 22 (22.68%) Presentation Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Influencing Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Legal
6 6 (6.19%) Banking
6 6 (6.19%) Law
7 4 (4.12%) Back Office
7 4 (4.12%) Retail
8 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Automotive
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Electronics
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.65%) .NET
2 17 (17.53%) HTML
3 13 (13.40%) SOAP
4 10 (10.31%) Playwright
5 4 (4.12%) CSS
5 4 (4.12%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (4.12%) Gherkin
5 4 (4.12%) React
6 3 (3.09%) REST
7 2 (2.06%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.06%) Middleware
8 1 (1.03%) ADO
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.12%) Derivative
3 4 (4.12%) Equities
3 4 (4.12%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.03%) AS400
4 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) FMCG
4 1 (1.03%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.03%) IoT
4 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (49.48%) Agile
2 46 (47.42%) Test Automation
3 45 (46.39%) Software Testing
4 43 (44.33%) Test Management
5 39 (40.21%) Test Scripting
6 31 (31.96%) Scrum
7 28 (28.87%) Regression Testing
8 26 (26.80%) Manual Testing
8 26 (26.80%) Performance Testing
9 25 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (25.77%) Mentoring
10 23 (23.71%) ERP
10 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (23.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (22.68%) API Testing
11 22 (22.68%) Programme Management
12 21 (21.65%) Product Roadmap
12 21 (21.65%) Risk Management
12 21 (21.65%) Roadmaps
12 21 (21.65%) Source to Pay
Programming Languages
1 38 (39.18%) SQL
2 20 (20.62%) C#
3 19 (19.59%) Java
4 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.22%) Python
5 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (45.36%) ISTQB
2 24 (24.74%) Degree
3 20 (20.62%) ISEB
4 14 (14.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 11 (11.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.87%) QA
2 10 (10.31%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.65%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) SAP
2 21 (21.65%) HP
3 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.19%) iManage
5 5 (5.15%) Oracle
6 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) Aderant
7 2 (2.06%) IBM
7 2 (2.06%) Intapp
7 2 (2.06%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.06%) Workday
8 1 (1.03%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.03%) Genesys
8 1 (1.03%) NCR
8 1 (1.03%) Siebel