Test Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 661 529 427
Rank change year-on-year -132 -102 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 107 212 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.37% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.42% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 87 136 294
10th Percentile £23,800 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,500 £39,554
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +9.98% +5.48%
75th Percentile £48,125 £55,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £56,000 £66,250 £51,250
UK median annual salary £42,250 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.05% +18.75% +3.90%

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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
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 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test 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 Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -20 45 £46,250 -7.50% 6
North of England -21 30 £35,000 -19.54% 5
North West -28 18 £37,500 -25.00% 5
East of England +8 16 £40,000 -
West Midlands -10 10 £35,000 -23.97% 2
Midlands -36 10 £35,000 -11.95% 4
North East -3 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West -36 4 £65,000 +52.94% 5
Yorkshire +26 3 £54,038 +27.15%
Wales +5 2 - -
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 57 (53.27%) Test Automation
2 46 (42.99%) Test Scripting
2 46 (42.99%) Software Testing
3 44 (41.12%) ISTQB
4 41 (38.32%) QA
5 34 (31.78%) Agile
6 24 (22.43%) Integration Testing
7 23 (21.50%) Manual Testing
7 23 (21.50%) Selenium
7 23 (21.50%) Functional Testing
8 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (20.56%) Security Cleared
9 20 (18.69%) Finance
9 20 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
10 19 (17.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 18 (16.82%) Test Management
11 18 (16.82%) Azure
11 18 (16.82%) Microsoft
12 17 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (14.95%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (14.95%) Regression Testing
13 16 (14.95%) Test Strategy
14 15 (14.02%) C#
14 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
14 15 (14.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 14 (13.08%) Scenario Testing
15 14 (13.08%) Test Planning
15 14 (13.08%) ERP
15 14 (13.08%) SaaS

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.93%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.82%) Azure
2 14 (13.08%) SaaS
3 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.61%) AWS
5 5 (4.67%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) Wireless
2 1 (0.93%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Selenium
2 11 (10.28%) TestRail
3 9 (8.41%) JIRA
3 9 (8.41%) JMeter
4 6 (5.61%) NUnit
4 6 (5.61%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.61%) Zephyr
5 4 (3.74%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.93%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.93%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.93%) Newman
7 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.93%) TestNG
General
1 20 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
1 20 (18.69%) Finance
2 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (14.95%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
6 10 (9.35%) Police
7 8 (7.48%) Retail
8 6 (5.61%) Games
9 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.80%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) .NET
1 6 (5.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.74%) .NET Core
2 4 (3.74%) JSON
2 4 (3.74%) Web Services
2 4 (3.74%) XML
3 1 (0.93%) React
3 1 (0.93%) RESTful
3 1 (0.93%) Spring
3 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.74%) CCTV
2 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.93%) BBC
4 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Test Automation
2 46 (42.99%) Software Testing
2 46 (42.99%) Test Scripting
3 34 (31.78%) Agile
4 24 (22.43%) Integration Testing
5 23 (21.50%) Functional Testing
5 23 (21.50%) Manual Testing
6 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (16.82%) Test Management
9 16 (14.95%) Regression Testing
9 16 (14.95%) Test Strategy
10 15 (14.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 14 (13.08%) ERP
11 14 (13.08%) Scenario Testing
11 14 (13.08%) Test Planning
12 13 (12.15%) Defect Management
12 13 (12.15%) System Integration Testing
12 13 (12.15%) User Experience
13 12 (11.21%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.02%) C#
2 12 (11.21%) SQL
3 5 (4.67%) Python
4 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.80%) Scala
5 2 (1.87%) Java
5 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (41.12%) ISTQB
2 22 (20.56%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
6 8 (7.48%) ISEB
7 6 (5.61%) Degree
8 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.93%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (38.32%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.87%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Grafana
1 5 (4.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.67%) YouTube
5 4 (3.74%) Databricks
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk