Senior Test Analyst Contracts in London

Senior Test Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in London is £428 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 446 545
Rank change year-on-year +90 +99 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 41 42 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 35
10th Percentile £352 £325 £315
25th Percentile £375 £344 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £476 £580 £488
90th Percentile £547 £618 £525
England median daily rate £445 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -6.32% +11.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,289 24,377 36,837
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.18% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 17,736 27,044
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 282 432
10th Percentile £16.02 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £22.64
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +13.45%
75th Percentile £45.62 £63.48 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.48 £66.57
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.42% +7.10%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London +50 9 £400 -23.81%
East London 0 3 £468 +7.47%
South London - 1 £465 -
Senior Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (85.37%) Test Automation
2 31 (75.61%) Agile
3 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
4 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
5 19 (46.34%) Selenium
6 18 (43.90%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (43.90%) Software Testing
6 18 (43.90%) Back Office
7 17 (41.46%) C#
7 17 (41.46%) Performance Testing
8 16 (39.02%) Visual Studio
8 16 (39.02%) WebDriver
9 15 (36.59%) Azure
9 15 (36.59%) DevOps
9 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
9 15 (36.59%) Postman
10 14 (34.15%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (31.71%) SpecFlow
11 13 (31.71%) Scrum
12 12 (29.27%) .NET
12 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
12 12 (29.27%) Mobile App
13 11 (26.83%) Kotlin
13 11 (26.83%) AngularJS
13 11 (26.83%) Android
13 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
13 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
13 11 (26.83%) .NET Framework
14 10 (24.39%) Manual Testing
14 10 (24.39%) XML

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (4.88%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) dbt
6 1 (2.44%) AWS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Selenium
2 16 (39.02%) Visual Studio
2 16 (39.02%) WebDriver
3 15 (36.59%) Postman
4 13 (31.71%) SpecFlow
5 4 (9.76%) Appium
5 4 (9.76%) LoadRunner
5 4 (9.76%) Rational Performance Tester
6 3 (7.32%) JIRA
7 1 (2.44%) Git
7 1 (2.44%) JMeter
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 18 (43.90%) Back Office
3 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
6 2 (4.88%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) .NET
2 11 (26.83%) .NET Framework
2 11 (26.83%) AngularJS
3 10 (24.39%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.44%) ADO
4 1 (2.44%) Playwright
4 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Mobile App
2 10 (24.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Contactless
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (85.37%) Test Automation
2 31 (75.61%) Agile
3 18 (43.90%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (43.90%) Software Testing
4 17 (41.46%) Performance Testing
5 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
5 15 (36.59%) DevOps
6 13 (31.71%) Scrum
7 10 (24.39%) Acceptance Criteria
7 10 (24.39%) B2C
7 10 (24.39%) Manual Testing
8 9 (21.95%) Test Strategy
9 8 (19.51%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (17.07%) API Testing
11 5 (12.20%) Functional Testing
12 4 (9.76%) Integration Testing
12 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (9.76%) SDLC
12 4 (9.76%) Test Assurance
13 3 (7.32%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) C#
2 11 (26.83%) Kotlin
2 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Bicep
4 1 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) ISEB
2 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) HP
2 4 (9.76%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) Aderant
4 1 (2.44%) Ariba
4 1 (2.44%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.44%) SAP