Test Analyst Contracts in the North West

Test Analyst
England > North West

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the North West is £570 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 127 140 151
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 14 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.53% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.56% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 27
10th Percentile £313 £353 £263
25th Percentile £438 £388 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £580 £438 £405
90th Percentile - - £443
England median daily rate £450 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -5.26% +15.85% +12.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,622 3,055 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.64% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,198 2,821
10th Percentile £281 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 138 178
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.51 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the North West

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the North West

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the North West

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the North West

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire +16 12 £570 +34.12%
Merseyside +19 1 - - 1
Lancashire - 1 - -
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Validation
2 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (57.14%) Use Case
2 8 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) IT Strategy
2 8 (57.14%) Cyber Resilience
2 8 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
2 8 (57.14%) NIST
2 8 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Test Management
4 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
4 2 (14.29%) API Testing
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) BrowserStack
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (14.29%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.14%) Commercetools
2 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Postman
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
1 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) TestDirector
2 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Validation
2 8 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 8 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 8 (57.14%) Cyber Resilience
2 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (57.14%) IT Strategy
2 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 8 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
2 8 (57.14%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) API Testing
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
1 1 (7.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle