Test Analyst Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Test Analyst
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Test Analyst daily rate in County Antrim is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 188 143 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.19% 89.94% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 74 79
10th Percentile £224 £148 £158
25th Percentile £325 £184 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% +10.31% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £529
90th Percentile £612 £622 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £445 £400
% change year-on-year +6.74% +11.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.57 £22.68 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.19 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -37.18% +73.83% +26.74%
75th Percentile £16.50 £25.72 £16.00
90th Percentile £24.50 £40.25 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.33 £22.56 £13.69
% change year-on-year -32.05% +64.85% +24.69%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in County Antrim

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in County Antrim.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in County Antrim

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
Belfast - 1 £400 - 3
Test Analyst
Northern Ireland

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 30 September 2025, 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 County Antrim region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Postman

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared