Test Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £443 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 298 341
Rank change year-on-year +56 +43 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 107 175 310
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.69% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.73% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 146 233
10th Percentile £325 £269 £300
25th Percentile £363 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £420 £405
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £515 £495 £469
90th Percentile £603 £544 £527
UK median daily rate £446 £450 £405
% change year-on-year -0.89% +11.11% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,973 24,016 42,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 16,958 30,661
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 547 602
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £19.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +43.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Test Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Analyst.

Test Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Analyst over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Test Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Analyst.

Test Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 52 (48.60%) Test Automation
2 42 (39.25%) Agile
3 29 (27.10%) Test Scripting
4 25 (23.36%) Security Cleared
5 23 (21.50%) Azure
6 21 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (19.63%) QA
7 20 (18.69%) Software Testing
8 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
9 18 (16.82%) Selenium
9 18 (16.82%) Manual Testing
9 18 (16.82%) DevOps
9 18 (16.82%) Postman
10 17 (15.89%) Finance
11 16 (14.95%) JIRA
11 16 (14.95%) ISTQB
11 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
12 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (14.02%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (13.08%) Test Management
13 14 (13.08%) SQL
13 14 (13.08%) Scenario Testing
13 14 (13.08%) End-to-End Testing
14 13 (12.15%) Test Strategy
14 13 (12.15%) Oracle
14 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
14 13 (12.15%) Scrum
15 12 (11.21%) Regression Testing
15 12 (11.21%) C#
15 12 (11.21%) Public Sector

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.50%) Azure
2 15 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.80%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) AWS
5 2 (1.87%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.93%) Boomi
6 1 (0.93%) FinancialForce
6 1 (0.93%) Firebase
6 1 (0.93%) GCP
6 1 (0.93%) IaaS
6 1 (0.93%) PaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
6 1 (0.93%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.87%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Postman
1 18 (16.82%) Selenium
2 16 (14.95%) JIRA
3 9 (8.41%) TestRail
4 7 (6.54%) JMeter
4 7 (6.54%) Visual Studio
4 7 (6.54%) WebDriver
5 6 (5.61%) SpecFlow
6 5 (4.67%) Zephyr
7 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.74%) TestComplete
8 3 (2.80%) Appium
8 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.80%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.80%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.87%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.93%) JIRA Agile
General
1 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Back Office
5 5 (4.67%) Banking
6 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) .NET
2 6 (5.61%) XML
3 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.80%) Playwright
4 3 (2.80%) WebdriverIO
5 2 (1.87%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.87%) JSON
5 2 (1.87%) REST
5 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) ADO
6 1 (0.93%) CSS
6 1 (0.93%) FpML
6 1 (0.93%) HTML
6 1 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.93%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.93%) Contactless
3 1 (0.93%) Derivative
3 1 (0.93%) DTCC
3 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.93%) NHS
3 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Android
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) Test Automation
2 42 (39.25%) Agile
3 29 (27.10%) Test Scripting
4 21 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (18.69%) Software Testing
6 18 (16.82%) DevOps
6 18 (16.82%) Manual Testing
7 15 (14.02%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (13.08%) End-to-End Testing
8 14 (13.08%) Scenario Testing
8 14 (13.08%) Test Management
9 13 (12.15%) Scrum
9 13 (12.15%) Test Strategy
10 12 (11.21%) Regression Testing
11 11 (10.28%) Performance Testing
11 11 (10.28%) System Integration Testing
12 10 (9.35%) Functional Testing
12 10 (9.35%) Integration Testing
12 10 (9.35%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.08%) SQL
2 12 (11.21%) C#
3 7 (6.54%) Java
3 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.67%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.87%) VBScript
7 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) Perl
7 1 (0.93%) Python
7 1 (0.93%) Ruby
7 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.93%) SOQL
7 1 (0.93%) VB
7 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) ISTQB
2 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.54%) ISEB
6 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.63%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.80%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
1 13 (12.15%) Oracle
2 6 (5.61%) HP
3 5 (4.67%) Denodo
4 4 (3.74%) SAP
5 3 (2.80%) Ariba
5 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.87%) Aderant
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Dell
7 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.93%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) iManage
7 1 (0.93%) Murex
7 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) VMware