Senior Test Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in England is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 586 716
Rank change year-on-year +86 +130 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 49 60 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 49
10th Percentile £329 £325 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £516 £585 £488
90th Percentile £550 £618 £525
UK median daily rate £433 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -6.49% +8.82% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +90 41 £433 -9.90% 3
Midlands +30 5 £525 +61.54% 4
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
North of England +34 1 £325 -13.33% 2
North West +23 1 £325 -13.33% 1
East Midlands +22 1 - - 4
Senior Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Test Analyst contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 36 (73.47%) Agile
2 35 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 25 (51.02%) Social Skills
4 21 (42.86%) Selenium
4 21 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 20 (40.82%) Azure
5 20 (40.82%) DevOps
6 19 (38.78%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (38.78%) Software Testing
7 18 (36.73%) C#
7 18 (36.73%) Performance Testing
8 17 (34.69%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (34.69%) WebDriver
8 17 (34.69%) Visual Studio
8 17 (34.69%) Back Office
8 17 (34.69%) Postman
9 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
10 14 (28.57%) .NET
10 14 (28.57%) Scrum
10 14 (28.57%) SpecFlow
11 13 (26.53%) Mobile App
11 13 (26.53%) Public Sector
12 12 (24.49%) Android
12 12 (24.49%) Manual Testing
12 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
13 11 (22.45%) .NET Framework
13 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
13 11 (22.45%) Non-Functional Testing
13 11 (22.45%) AngularJS
13 11 (22.45%) Kotlin

Senior 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 2 (4.08%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 19 (38.78%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.08%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) dbt
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.04%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.04%) Commercetools
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (42.86%) Selenium
2 17 (34.69%) Postman
2 17 (34.69%) Visual Studio
2 17 (34.69%) WebDriver
3 14 (28.57%) SpecFlow
4 7 (14.29%) JIRA
5 5 (10.20%) Appium
5 5 (10.20%) LoadRunner
5 5 (10.20%) Rational Performance Tester
6 2 (4.08%) JMeter
7 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.04%) Git
7 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (51.02%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Back Office
3 13 (26.53%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
5 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) .NET
2 11 (22.45%) .NET Framework
2 11 (22.45%) AngularJS
3 10 (20.41%) XML
4 2 (4.08%) Playwright
5 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.04%) ADO
5 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Mobile App
2 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Contactless
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Android
2 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (73.47%) Agile
2 35 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 20 (40.82%) DevOps
4 19 (38.78%) Software Testing
5 18 (36.73%) Performance Testing
6 17 (34.69%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
8 14 (28.57%) Scrum
9 12 (24.49%) Manual Testing
10 11 (22.45%) Acceptance Criteria
10 11 (22.45%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (20.41%) API Testing
11 10 (20.41%) B2C
11 10 (20.41%) Test Strategy
12 8 (16.33%) Functional Testing
13 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (10.20%) SDLC
14 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (10.20%) Test Assurance
14 5 (10.20%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) C#
2 11 (22.45%) Kotlin
2 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) ISEB
2 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) HP
3 5 (10.20%) IBM
4 3 (6.12%) Ariba
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) Aderant
6 1 (2.04%) Dataiku