Test Analyst Jobs

Test Analyst
UK

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 625 724
Rank change year-on-year -99 +99 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 118 274 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 93 169 415
10th Percentile £30,587 £33,750 £29,495
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,000 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +6.67%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst.

Salary trend for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Top 14 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 26 July 2024. 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 -94 115 £45,000 - 13
UK excluding London -116 81 £37,500 -11.76% 11
Work from Home +15 49 £45,000 -6.25% 4
South East -8 38 £37,500 -16.67% 7
London +38 33 £57,500 +15.00% 3
North of England -30 23 £37,500 -11.76% 1
North West -21 19 £37,500 -25.00% 1
East of England -3 8 £35,000 -
West Midlands -5 6 £50,000 +12.99% 2
Midlands -40 6 £50,000 +25.00% 2
South West -12 4 £61,250 +68.84%
Yorkshire +32 2 - -
Wales +26 2 - - 1
North East -11 2 £35,000 +7.69%

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Test Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 76 (64.41%) Test Automation
2 48 (40.68%) Software Testing
3 44 (37.29%) Agile
4 42 (35.59%) ISTQB
5 41 (34.75%) QA
6 35 (29.66%) Test Scripting
7 30 (25.42%) Selenium
8 28 (23.73%) Regression Testing
8 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
9 24 (20.34%) SQL
9 24 (20.34%) Manual Testing
9 24 (20.34%) Azure
10 23 (19.49%) Performance Testing
11 21 (17.80%) Test Strategy
12 20 (16.95%) Functional Testing
13 19 (16.10%) C#
13 19 (16.10%) Finance
14 18 (15.25%) Test Management
14 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (14.41%) SaaS
15 17 (14.41%) Non-Functional Testing
15 17 (14.41%) DevOps
16 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
16 16 (13.56%) JIRA
17 14 (11.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 14 (11.86%) API Testing
17 14 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (11.86%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (11.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 13 (11.02%) Test Planning

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.85%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Azure
2 17 (14.41%) SaaS
3 14 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.93%) AWS
5 5 (4.24%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.85%) GCP
6 1 (0.85%) IaaS
6 1 (0.85%) PaaS
6 1 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) Wireless
2 1 (0.85%) ATM
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) LAN
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.69%) Big Data
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.69%) Pentaho
3 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (25.42%) Selenium
2 16 (13.56%) JIRA
3 11 (9.32%) JMeter
4 9 (7.63%) Postman
4 9 (7.63%) TestRail
5 6 (5.08%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.24%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.24%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.39%) NUnit
7 4 (3.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (2.54%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.54%) JUnit
8 3 (2.54%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.54%) TestNG
8 3 (2.54%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.69%) Git
10 1 (0.85%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.85%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Finance
3 14 (11.86%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.78%) Retail
7 7 (5.93%) Banking
8 6 (5.08%) Back Office
8 6 (5.08%) Police
8 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.39%) Law
9 4 (3.39%) Legal
10 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.69%) Advertising
11 2 (1.69%) Electronics
11 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Local Government
12 1 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) Web Services
3 3 (2.54%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (2.54%) JSON
3 3 (2.54%) Playwright
3 3 (2.54%) XML
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.85%) SOAP
5 1 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.24%) Low-Code
2 4 (3.39%) CCTV
2 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.54%) Derivative
3 3 (2.54%) Equities
4 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) BBC
5 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.85%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) Oculus
5 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.24%) Windows
2 4 (3.39%) Linux
2 4 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.41%) Test Automation
2 48 (40.68%) Software Testing
3 44 (37.29%) Agile
4 35 (29.66%) Test Scripting
5 28 (23.73%) Regression Testing
6 24 (20.34%) Manual Testing
7 23 (19.49%) Performance Testing
8 21 (17.80%) Test Strategy
9 20 (16.95%) Functional Testing
10 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.25%) Test Management
11 17 (14.41%) DevOps
11 17 (14.41%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (11.86%) API Testing
13 13 (11.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 13 (11.02%) Test Planning
14 12 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
15 11 (9.32%) Scenario Testing
15 11 (9.32%) Scrum
15 11 (9.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.34%) SQL
2 19 (16.10%) C#
3 13 (11.02%) Python
4 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.24%) Java
7 2 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (35.59%) ISTQB
2 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Degree
5 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.78%) ISEB
6 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.69%) OSCP
9 1 (0.85%) CCNA
9 1 (0.85%) CCNP
9 1 (0.85%) CEH
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.85%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.85%) GIAC
9 1 (0.85%) GPEN
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (34.75%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) NCSC
4 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Firmware
2 2 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Grafana
1 5 (4.24%) Kibana
2 1 (0.85%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.08%) Oracle
3 3 (2.54%) SAP
4 2 (1.69%) Databricks
4 2 (1.69%) Denodo
4 2 (1.69%) Google
4 2 (1.69%) Informatica
4 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.69%) Talend
4 2 (1.69%) YouTube
5 1 (0.85%) Aderant
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) IFS
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.85%) VMware