Test Analyst Contracts in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 338 343
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 234 367 558
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.77% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 297 420
10th Percentile £306 £296 £310
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.85% +12.71%
75th Percentile £570 £585 £476
90th Percentile £580 £680 £550
UK median daily rate £446 £450 £405
% change year-on-year -0.89% +11.11% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.50
75th Percentile - - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in England

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 Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +22 106 £450 -14.29% 10
South East -3 50 £550 +22.22% 4
Midlands +25 33 £363 -12.65% 3
North of England +28 24 £484 +13.76% 6
West Midlands +21 19 £363 -13.17% 1
East Midlands +24 14 £363 +7.41% 2
North West +13 14 £570 +42.50% 4
South West +17 7 £488 +21.88% 3
Yorkshire +22 6 £484 -5.66% 1
East of England +6 5 £313 +0.81%
North East +22 4 £415 - 1
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Test Analyst in the job title.

1 89 (38.03%) Agile
2 77 (32.91%) Test Automation
3 65 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 55 (23.50%) Test Scripting
5 49 (20.94%) User Acceptance Testing
6 45 (19.23%) Finance
7 44 (18.80%) Azure
7 44 (18.80%) DevOps
7 44 (18.80%) Social Skills
8 43 (18.38%) Test Management
8 43 (18.38%) JIRA
9 40 (17.09%) SC Cleared
10 39 (16.67%) ISTQB
10 39 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
11 37 (15.81%) Selenium
12 35 (14.96%) Software Testing
13 34 (14.53%) QA
13 34 (14.53%) Oracle
14 30 (12.82%) Performance Testing
15 29 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (12.39%) Manual Testing
16 28 (11.97%) TestRail
17 27 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 27 (11.54%) Test Planning
17 27 (11.54%) DV Cleared
17 27 (11.54%) C#
18 26 (11.11%) Microsoft
19 25 (10.68%) Scrum
19 25 (10.68%) Public Sector

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 8 (3.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) Appian
Applications
1 13 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (18.80%) Azure
2 39 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.27%) AWS
3 10 (4.27%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (1.28%) BrowserStack
5 3 (1.28%) SaaS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (0.85%) dbt
6 2 (0.85%) Firebase
6 2 (0.85%) Serverless
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.43%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.43%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.43%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.43%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) MVNO
1 2 (0.85%) SMS
1 2 (0.85%) SNMP
1 2 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
1 2 (0.85%) SSH
1 2 (0.85%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.43%) DVB
2 1 (0.43%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.99%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) DB2
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) MySQL
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.43%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (18.38%) JIRA
2 37 (15.81%) Selenium
3 28 (11.97%) TestRail
4 15 (6.41%) Visual Studio
4 15 (6.41%) WebDriver
5 14 (5.98%) SpecFlow
6 13 (5.56%) Postman
7 9 (3.85%) JMeter
8 6 (2.56%) Git
8 6 (2.56%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.14%) Appium
9 5 (2.14%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.14%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.71%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.28%) JUnit
12 2 (0.85%) IntelliJ
General
1 45 (19.23%) Finance
2 44 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.98%) Banking
5 12 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.71%) Back Office
8 4 (1.71%) Electronics
8 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.71%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Billing
9 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.26%) .NET
2 15 (6.41%) XML
3 12 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 11 (4.70%) .NET Framework
5 7 (2.99%) ADO
6 6 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.28%) CSS
7 3 (1.28%) HTML
7 3 (1.28%) LDAP
8 2 (0.85%) FpML
8 2 (0.85%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.85%) JSON
8 2 (0.85%) Kafka
8 2 (0.85%) Playwright
8 2 (0.85%) REST
8 2 (0.85%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (0.85%) XBRL
9 1 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
1 7 (2.99%) Reinsurance
2 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.28%) NHS
5 2 (0.85%) DTCC
5 2 (0.85%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.85%) IVR
5 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Contactless
6 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.43%) Derivative
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.43%) PKI
6 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) STB
6 1 (0.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.14%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Android
2 2 (0.85%) Unix
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (38.03%) Agile
2 77 (32.91%) Test Automation
3 55 (23.50%) Test Scripting
4 49 (20.94%) User Acceptance Testing
5 44 (18.80%) DevOps
6 43 (18.38%) Test Management
7 39 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
8 35 (14.96%) Software Testing
9 30 (12.82%) Performance Testing
10 29 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (12.39%) Manual Testing
11 27 (11.54%) Test Planning
12 25 (10.68%) Scrum
13 23 (9.83%) Functional Testing
14 22 (9.40%) End-to-End Testing
14 22 (9.40%) Integration Testing
15 20 (8.55%) CI/CD
15 20 (8.55%) Defect Management
15 20 (8.55%) Test Strategy
16 19 (8.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.54%) C#
2 21 (8.97%) SQL
3 17 (7.26%) Java
4 12 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.70%) Python
6 7 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.43%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) ProC
8 1 (0.43%) Scala
8 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 65 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 39 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 27 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 27 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 11 (4.70%) Degree
6 5 (2.14%) ISEB
7 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.53%) QA
2 8 (3.42%) NIST
3 5 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.28%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Ansible
2 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.85%) Kibana
3 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 34 (14.53%) Oracle
2 26 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.41%) SAP
4 10 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.56%) HP
6 4 (1.71%) Denodo
6 4 (1.71%) Workday
7 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.85%) Google
7 2 (0.85%) IBM
7 2 (0.85%) Murex
7 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Brio
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) Genesys
8 1 (0.43%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.43%) Splunk
8 1 (0.43%) VMware