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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 693 629
Rank change year-on-year +77 -64 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 60 103 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 44 74 112
10th Percentile - £30,422 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £54,775 £76,250 £63,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +5.88%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK

Test Analyst
Top 11 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 18 September 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 +62 54 £42,500 -5.56% 18
UK excluding London +89 45 £40,000 +6.67% 16
Work from Home +60 32 £42,500 +13.33% 13
South East +48 25 £40,000 +8.84% 7
London +48 13 £53,500 -6.96% 5
Midlands +49 7 £47,500 -17.39%
West Midlands +47 7 £47,500 -17.39%
South West +77 5 £40,000 -34.69% 3
Wales +20 4 £45,000 -
East of England -19 3 - -
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 42 (70.00%) Agile
2 40 (66.67%) ISTQB
3 37 (61.67%) Software Testing
4 27 (45.00%) SQL
5 26 (43.33%) Scrum
5 26 (43.33%) Test Automation
6 25 (41.67%) Test Scripting
6 25 (41.67%) QA
6 25 (41.67%) Microsoft
7 24 (40.00%) DevOps
8 22 (36.67%) Mentoring
8 22 (36.67%) Selenium
8 22 (36.67%) JIRA
9 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
10 20 (33.33%) Finance
11 19 (31.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (31.67%) Test Management
12 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
13 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
14 16 (26.67%) Azure
14 16 (26.67%) Regression Testing
14 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
15 15 (25.00%) Code Quality
15 15 (25.00%) C#
15 15 (25.00%) Logistics
16 14 (23.33%) Java
16 14 (23.33%) API Testing
17 13 (21.67%) Scenario Testing
17 13 (21.67%) Azure DevOps

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 1 (1.67%) Confluence
1 1 (1.67%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Elite 3E
2 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Magento
3 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) MySQL
1 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) JIRA
1 22 (36.67%) Selenium
2 13 (21.67%) Postman
2 13 (21.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 9 (15.00%) WebDriver
5 6 (10.00%) TestRail
6 5 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
7 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
7 3 (5.00%) Gatling
7 3 (5.00%) Git
7 3 (5.00%) LoadRunner
7 3 (5.00%) Locust
7 3 (5.00%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.33%) Finance
3 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Legal
5 4 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Automotive
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) .NET
2 9 (15.00%) HTML
2 9 (15.00%) SOAP
3 6 (10.00%) Playwright
4 2 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.67%) Node.js
5 1 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.33%) AS400
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) EPoS
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.67%) FMCG
4 1 (1.67%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) Agile
2 37 (61.67%) Software Testing
3 26 (43.33%) Scrum
3 26 (43.33%) Test Automation
4 25 (41.67%) Test Scripting
5 24 (40.00%) DevOps
6 22 (36.67%) Mentoring
7 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (31.67%) Test Management
8 19 (31.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
10 16 (26.67%) Regression Testing
11 15 (25.00%) Code Quality
11 15 (25.00%) Logistics
12 14 (23.33%) API Testing
13 13 (21.67%) Scenario Testing
14 12 (20.00%) Performance Testing
15 10 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
16 9 (15.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
16 9 (15.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) C#
3 14 (23.33%) Java
4 6 (10.00%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 13 (21.67%) Degree
3 11 (18.33%) ISEB
3 11 (18.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 10 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (41.67%) QA
2 11 (18.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 25 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) iManage
3 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.33%) Aderant
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Intapp
4 2 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.33%) Workday
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) SAP