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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 641 671
Rank change year-on-year -61 +30 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 146 292 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 125 190 360
10th Percentile £30,422 £34,324 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £48,750 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% +16.77% +4.38%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,938 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £58,750
UK median annual salary £42,250 £47,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +14.46% +6.41%

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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -25 45 £46,250 -7.50% 6
London +61 39 £52,500 +5.00% 7
North of England -21 30 £35,000 -19.54% 5
North West -36 18 £37,500 -25.00% 5
East of England +4 16 £40,000 -
West Midlands -6 10 £35,000 -23.97% 2
Midlands -34 10 £35,000 -11.95% 4
North East -4 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -39 4 £65,000 +62.50% 5
Yorkshire +24 3 £54,038 +27.15%
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 77 (52.74%) Test Automation
2 72 (49.32%) Software Testing
3 55 (37.67%) Agile
3 55 (37.67%) QA
4 49 (33.56%) Test Scripting
4 49 (33.56%) Functional Testing
5 43 (29.45%) ISTQB
6 41 (28.08%) Regression Testing
7 38 (26.03%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (23.29%) Selenium
9 30 (20.55%) Azure
10 29 (19.86%) Scenario Testing
10 29 (19.86%) Social Skills
11 27 (18.49%) Performance Testing
12 26 (17.81%) Manual Testing
12 26 (17.81%) DevOps
13 25 (17.12%) Non-Functional Testing
13 25 (17.12%) Test Strategy
13 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (17.12%) Integration Testing
14 23 (15.75%) Test Management
14 23 (15.75%) JIRA
14 23 (15.75%) Degree
14 23 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
14 23 (15.75%) Security Cleared
15 21 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (14.38%) C#
16 20 (13.70%) SQL
16 20 (13.70%) Finance
16 20 (13.70%) Police

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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.55%) Azure
2 21 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (10.27%) SaaS
4 6 (4.11%) AWS
5 5 (3.42%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.68%) IaaS
6 1 (0.68%) PaaS
6 1 (0.68%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.48%) Wireless
2 1 (0.68%) ATM
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.05%) Big Data
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (23.29%) Selenium
2 23 (15.75%) JIRA
3 11 (7.53%) JMeter
3 11 (7.53%) TestRail
4 8 (5.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (4.79%) NUnit
6 6 (4.11%) Postman
6 6 (4.11%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.11%) Zephyr
7 4 (2.74%) WebDriver
8 3 (2.05%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.37%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.68%) Bugzilla
10 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.68%) GitLab
10 1 (0.68%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.68%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.68%) TestNG
General
1 29 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.70%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Police
4 18 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (10.96%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.48%) Electronics
6 8 (5.48%) Retail
7 6 (4.11%) Games
8 4 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.37%) Back Office
10 2 (1.37%) Banking
10 2 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (1.37%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) .NET
2 6 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.42%) Web Services
4 4 (2.74%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.74%) JSON
4 4 (2.74%) XML
5 2 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.68%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) Playwright
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) Spring
6 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.74%) CCTV
2 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.68%) BBC
4 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.68%) Derivative
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.68%) Equities
4 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.74%) Test Automation
2 72 (49.32%) Software Testing
3 55 (37.67%) Agile
4 49 (33.56%) Functional Testing
4 49 (33.56%) Test Scripting
5 41 (28.08%) Regression Testing
6 38 (26.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (19.86%) Scenario Testing
8 27 (18.49%) Performance Testing
9 26 (17.81%) DevOps
9 26 (17.81%) Manual Testing
10 25 (17.12%) Integration Testing
10 25 (17.12%) Non-Functional Testing
10 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (17.12%) Test Strategy
11 23 (15.75%) Test Management
12 18 (12.33%) System Testing
13 16 (10.96%) Defect Management
13 16 (10.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 15 (10.27%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.38%) C#
2 20 (13.70%) SQL
3 7 (4.79%) Python
4 5 (3.42%) Java
5 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.05%) Scala
6 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (29.45%) ISTQB
2 23 (15.75%) Degree
2 23 (15.75%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.64%) ISEB
4 14 (9.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.85%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.68%) GIAC
8 1 (0.68%) OSCP
8 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (37.67%) QA
2 8 (5.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) PMO
3 2 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (8.22%) Firmware
2 8 (5.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Grafana
1 5 (3.42%) Kibana
2 1 (0.68%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.68%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.85%) Oracle
3 8 (5.48%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.79%) Google
5 6 (4.11%) YouTube
6 4 (2.74%) Databricks
7 2 (1.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Citrix
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) VMware