Test Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Test Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 155 154
Rank change year-on-year +51 -1 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 20 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.92% 0.44% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.47% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 29
10th Percentile - £313 £358
25th Percentile £375 £353 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +11.76% -6.85%
75th Percentile £463 £494 £488
90th Percentile £538 £638 £582
Central London median daily rate £440 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -7.37% +11.76% -5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,066 3,434 4,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.10% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,338 3,022
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the City of London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the City of London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the City of London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the City of London

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (45.00%) SQL
4 6 (30.00%) Selenium
4 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Azure
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) JIRA
5 5 (25.00%) C#
6 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (20.00%) Finance
6 4 (20.00%) Degree
6 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Test Planning
6 4 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (15.00%) Postman
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.00%) WebDriver
7 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Boomi
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) FinancialForce
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Selenium
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (15.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (10.00%) JMeter
5 1 (5.00%) Appium
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Bugzilla
5 1 (5.00%) Git
5 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) DTCC
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (15.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (10.00%) ISEB
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) MiFID
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce