Test Analyst
UK

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK is £40,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 752 645 653
Rank change year-on-year -107 +8 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 152 357 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 228 400
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £47,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +19.38% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,313 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.97% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -62 147 £40,000 -20.00% 29
UK excluding London -98 107 £37,500 -11.76% 20
Work from Home +35 62 £47,500 -5.00% 9
South East -10 41 £47,500 -5.00% 3
London +67 40 £50,000 - 11
North of England -15 30 £35,000 -18.60% 8
North West -20 17 £37,500 -29.58% 5
West Midlands +26 14 £35,000 -19.54% 1
Midlands -7 14 £35,000 -11.39% 4
East of England +22 13 £40,000 - 1
North East +3 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -28 7 £37,500 +3.37% 3
Yorkshire +33 4 £47,500 +11.76% 3
Wales +4 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 73 (48.03%) Software Testing
3 57 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 55 (36.18%) Agile
5 53 (34.87%) Functional Testing
6 52 (34.21%) QA
7 41 (26.97%) ISTQB
8 40 (26.32%) Regression Testing
9 39 (25.66%) User Acceptance Testing
10 36 (23.68%) Azure
10 36 (23.68%) Scenario Testing
11 34 (22.37%) Selenium
12 32 (21.05%) Finance
13 31 (20.39%) DevOps
14 28 (18.42%) Non-Functional Testing
14 28 (18.42%) Social Skills
15 27 (17.76%) JIRA
16 26 (17.11%) Performance Testing
16 26 (17.11%) Test Strategy
16 26 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
17 25 (16.45%) Manual Testing
17 25 (16.45%) Degree
17 25 (16.45%) C#
18 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
19 23 (15.13%) Integration Testing
20 22 (14.47%) Test Management
20 22 (14.47%) SQL
20 22 (14.47%) Microsoft

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 4 (2.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.66%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.68%) Azure
2 26 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (7.24%) SaaS
4 6 (3.95%) AWS
5 5 (3.29%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.66%) IaaS
6 1 (0.66%) PaaS
6 1 (0.66%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.26%) Wireless
2 1 (0.66%) ATM
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.97%) Big Data
3 1 (0.66%) GIS
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (22.37%) Selenium
2 27 (17.76%) JIRA
3 10 (6.58%) JMeter
4 9 (5.92%) TestRail
5 8 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (3.95%) NUnit
6 6 (3.95%) Visual Studio
6 6 (3.95%) Zephyr
7 5 (3.29%) Postman
8 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.63%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.32%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.66%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.66%) GitLab
10 1 (0.66%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.66%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (0.66%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.66%) Newman
General
1 32 (21.05%) Finance
2 28 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.47%) Police
5 20 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
7 14 (9.21%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.26%) Electronics
8 8 (5.26%) Retail
9 6 (3.95%) Games
10 4 (2.63%) Local Government
11 3 (1.97%) Legal
12 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.32%) Banking
12 2 (1.32%) Law
12 2 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) .NET
2 6 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.95%) XML
3 5 (3.29%) .NET Core
3 5 (3.29%) Web Services
4 4 (2.63%) JSON
5 2 (1.32%) REST
6 1 (0.66%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.66%) HTML
6 1 (0.66%) React
6 1 (0.66%) Spring
6 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.63%) CCTV
1 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (0.66%) BBC
2 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
2 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (0.66%) IoT
2 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
2 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
2 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 73 (48.03%) Software Testing
3 57 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 55 (36.18%) Agile
5 53 (34.87%) Functional Testing
6 40 (26.32%) Regression Testing
7 39 (25.66%) User Acceptance Testing
8 36 (23.68%) Scenario Testing
9 31 (20.39%) DevOps
10 28 (18.42%) Non-Functional Testing
11 26 (17.11%) Performance Testing
11 26 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (17.11%) Test Strategy
12 25 (16.45%) Manual Testing
13 23 (15.13%) Integration Testing
14 22 (14.47%) Test Management
15 17 (11.18%) ERP
15 17 (11.18%) System Testing
16 16 (10.53%) Defect Management
17 15 (9.87%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.45%) C#
2 22 (14.47%) SQL
3 5 (3.29%) Java
3 5 (3.29%) Python
4 3 (1.97%) Scala
5 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (26.97%) ISTQB
2 25 (16.45%) Degree
3 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.18%) ISEB
5 14 (9.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (8.55%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.66%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.66%) GIAC
9 1 (0.66%) OSCP
9 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (34.21%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.32%) PMO
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) NCSC
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.89%) Firmware
2 8 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.29%) Grafana
1 5 (3.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.66%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.66%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.92%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.26%) Oracle
4 7 (4.61%) Google
5 6 (3.95%) YouTube
6 4 (2.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.66%) Citrix
7 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.66%) SAP
7 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) VMware