QA Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 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 736 623 770
Rank change year-on-year -113 +147 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 39 131 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35 67 81
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £46,625 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £39,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -17.89% -2.06% +7.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the UK excluding London 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 -12 21 £37,500 -18.92% 1
North of England +15 12 £43,750 +9.38% 4
North West -23 11 £42,500 +17.24% 3
South West -25 3 £32,500 -35.00% 2
Midlands -17 2 £48,750 +8.33%
West Midlands +9 1 £55,000 +29.41%
East Midlands -26 1 £42,500 -15.00%
North East - 1 £52,500 -
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 1
QA Analyst
UK

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) QA
2 25 (64.10%) Test Automation
3 17 (43.59%) Software Testing
4 16 (41.03%) Selenium
5 15 (38.46%) SaaS
5 15 (38.46%) ISTQB
6 14 (35.90%) Test Scripting
7 13 (33.33%) Agile
7 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 12 (30.77%) User Experience
9 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
9 10 (25.64%) Web Testing
9 10 (25.64%) Web Development
9 10 (25.64%) Test Strategy
9 10 (25.64%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (20.51%) Customer Experience
10 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
11 7 (17.95%) Postman
11 7 (17.95%) DevOps
11 7 (17.95%) SQL
11 7 (17.95%) C#
12 6 (15.38%) Scrum
12 6 (15.38%) Manual Testing
12 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
13 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
13 5 (12.82%) Mobile App
13 5 (12.82%) Azure
13 5 (12.82%) Windows
13 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) SaaS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Selenium
2 7 (17.95%) Postman
3 5 (12.82%) JMeter
4 4 (10.26%) SpecFlow
4 4 (10.26%) WebDriver
5 3 (7.69%) JIRA
5 3 (7.69%) SoapUI
5 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.13%) TestComplete
7 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.56%) Git
7 1 (2.56%) GitLab
7 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.56%) NUnit
7 1 (2.56%) TestRail
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Playwright
1 4 (10.26%) RESTful
2 3 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.13%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.56%) COM
4 1 (2.56%) React
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.56%) Spring
4 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Android
2 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Test Automation
2 17 (43.59%) Software Testing
3 14 (35.90%) Test Scripting
4 13 (33.33%) Agile
5 12 (30.77%) User Experience
6 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
6 10 (25.64%) Test Strategy
6 10 (25.64%) Web Development
6 10 (25.64%) Web Testing
7 8 (20.51%) Customer Experience
7 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.95%) DevOps
9 6 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (15.38%) Manual Testing
9 6 (15.38%) Scrum
10 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
10 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
11 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (10.26%) Customer-Centricity
11 4 (10.26%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) C#
1 7 (17.95%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) Databricks
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft