Senior Test Analyst Contracts

Senior Test Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 624 777
Rank change year-on-year +84 +153 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 45 69 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 54
10th Percentile £325 £325 £314
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £484 £575 £488
90th Percentile £545 £618 £527
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £433
% change year-on-year +11.76% -1.73% +7.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +84 42 £435 -8.42% 11
London +78 35 £430 -10.42% 7
Work from Home +108 17 £425 +5.59% 2
UK excluding London +58 9 £475 +11.76% 4
Midlands +37 5 £525 +61.54% 3
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
Scotland +43 3 £488 +8.33%
North of England +24 1 £325 -18.75% 1
North West +22 1 £325 -18.75%
East Midlands +20 1 - - 3
Wales +19 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 34 (75.56%) Agile
2 31 (68.89%) Test Automation
3 23 (51.11%) Azure
3 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
4 22 (48.89%) DevOps
5 21 (46.67%) Selenium
5 21 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 18 (40.00%) C#
7 17 (37.78%) Software Testing
7 17 (37.78%) WebDriver
8 16 (35.56%) Performance Testing
8 16 (35.56%) .NET
9 15 (33.33%) Visual Studio
10 14 (31.11%) Scrum
10 14 (31.11%) Mobile App
10 14 (31.11%) SpecFlow
11 13 (28.89%) Back Office
11 13 (28.89%) Postman
12 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
12 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
12 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
13 11 (24.44%) Android
13 11 (24.44%) AngularJS
13 11 (24.44%) .NET Framework
14 10 (22.22%) XML
14 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
14 10 (22.22%) B2C

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.44%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) AWS
5 2 (4.44%) dbt
5 2 (4.44%) IaaS
5 2 (4.44%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.22%) Commercetools
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (46.67%) Selenium
2 17 (37.78%) WebDriver
3 15 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 14 (31.11%) SpecFlow
5 13 (28.89%) Postman
6 9 (20.00%) JIRA
7 3 (6.67%) Appium
7 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.67%) Git
7 3 (6.67%) LoadRunner
7 3 (6.67%) Rational Performance Tester
8 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
8 2 (4.44%) JMeter
8 2 (4.44%) Subversion
8 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Back Office
3 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) .NET
2 11 (24.44%) .NET Framework
2 11 (24.44%) AngularJS
3 10 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (4.44%) Playwright
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.22%) ADO
5 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.22%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Mobile App
2 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Contactless
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Agile
2 31 (68.89%) Test Automation
3 22 (48.89%) DevOps
4 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (37.78%) Software Testing
6 16 (35.56%) Performance Testing
7 14 (31.11%) Scrum
8 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (22.22%) B2C
10 9 (20.00%) Manual Testing
10 9 (20.00%) Test Strategy
11 8 (17.78%) Acceptance Criteria
11 8 (17.78%) Non-Functional Testing
12 7 (15.56%) API Testing
12 7 (15.56%) Functional Testing
13 5 (11.11%) Integration Testing
13 5 (11.11%) Test Planning
14 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (8.89%) Software Delivery
14 4 (8.89%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) C#
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.22%) Kotlin
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) C++
6 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.44%) VBA
6 2 (4.44%) VBScript
7 1 (2.22%) Bicep
7 1 (2.22%) Python
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
1 3 (6.67%) ISEB
1 3 (6.67%) ISTQB
1 3 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) HP
3 3 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (4.44%) Aderant
5 1 (2.22%) Ariba
5 1 (2.22%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.22%) iManage
5 1 (2.22%) SAP