Test Analyst Jobs in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst salary in England is £41,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 691 622 667
Rank change year-on-year -69 +45 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 145 297 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.34% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 126 189 360
10th Percentile £30,422 £34,324 £26,993
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +20.48% +4.40%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £58,750
UK median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +18.75% +5.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East -13 43 £46,250 -7.50% 5
London +96 39 £52,500 +5.00% 8
North of England -10 30 £35,000 -18.60% 6
North West -19 18 £37,500 -25.00% 4
East of England +5 16 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands +15 11 £35,000 -23.97% 2
Midlands -28 11 £35,000 -11.39% 5
North East +1 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -36 4 £65,000 +52.94% 6
Yorkshire +39 3 £54,038 +27.15% 2
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 across the England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 75 (51.72%) Test Automation
2 70 (48.28%) Software Testing
3 55 (37.93%) Agile
4 54 (37.24%) QA
5 49 (33.79%) Test Scripting
5 49 (33.79%) Functional Testing
6 41 (28.28%) ISTQB
7 40 (27.59%) Regression Testing
8 38 (26.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 33 (22.76%) Selenium
10 30 (20.69%) Azure
10 30 (20.69%) Scenario Testing
11 29 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 27 (18.62%) Performance Testing
13 26 (17.93%) Manual Testing
13 26 (17.93%) DevOps
14 25 (17.24%) Non-Functional Testing
14 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (17.24%) Integration Testing
15 24 (16.55%) Test Strategy
16 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
16 23 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
16 23 (15.86%) Test Management
16 23 (15.86%) JIRA
16 23 (15.86%) Degree
17 21 (14.48%) Finance
17 21 (14.48%) C#
17 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
18 20 (13.79%) Police
18 20 (13.79%) SQL

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.76%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.69%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.69%) Azure
2 21 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.97%) SaaS
4 6 (4.14%) AWS
5 5 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.69%) IaaS
6 1 (0.69%) PaaS
6 1 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.52%) Wireless
2 1 (0.69%) ATM
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.07%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (22.76%) Selenium
2 23 (15.86%) JIRA
3 11 (7.59%) JMeter
3 11 (7.59%) TestRail
4 8 (5.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (4.83%) NUnit
6 6 (4.14%) Postman
6 6 (4.14%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.14%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.76%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.38%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.38%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.69%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.69%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.69%) JUnit
10 1 (0.69%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 29 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Finance
4 20 (13.79%) Police
5 18 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (11.03%) Public Sector
7 15 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.52%) Electronics
8 8 (5.52%) Retail
9 6 (4.14%) Games
10 4 (2.76%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.07%) Local Government
12 2 (1.38%) Back Office
12 2 (1.38%) Banking
12 2 (1.38%) Law
12 2 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) .NET
2 6 (4.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.45%) Web Services
4 4 (2.76%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.76%) JSON
4 4 (2.76%) XML
5 2 (1.38%) REST
6 1 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.69%) HTML
6 1 (0.69%) Playwright
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
6 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.76%) CCTV
2 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.69%) BBC
3 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.69%) Derivative
3 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.69%) Equities
3 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (51.72%) Test Automation
2 70 (48.28%) Software Testing
3 55 (37.93%) Agile
4 49 (33.79%) Functional Testing
4 49 (33.79%) Test Scripting
5 40 (27.59%) Regression Testing
6 38 (26.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (20.69%) Scenario Testing
8 27 (18.62%) Performance Testing
9 26 (17.93%) DevOps
9 26 (17.93%) Manual Testing
10 25 (17.24%) Integration Testing
10 25 (17.24%) Non-Functional Testing
10 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.55%) Test Strategy
12 23 (15.86%) Test Management
13 18 (12.41%) System Testing
14 16 (11.03%) Defect Management
14 16 (11.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 15 (10.34%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.48%) C#
2 20 (13.79%) SQL
3 6 (4.14%) Python
4 5 (3.45%) Java
5 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.07%) Scala
6 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (28.28%) ISTQB
2 23 (15.86%) Degree
2 23 (15.86%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.72%) ISEB
4 14 (9.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 11 (7.59%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.69%) GIAC
8 1 (0.69%) OSCP
8 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (37.24%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) PMO
3 2 (1.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (8.28%) Firmware
2 8 (5.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Grafana
1 5 (3.45%) Kibana
2 1 (0.69%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.69%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 19 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) Oracle
3 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.83%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) YouTube
6 4 (2.76%) Databricks
7 2 (1.38%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.69%) Citrix
8 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.69%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) Splunk
8 1 (0.69%) VMware