Test Analyst Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
England > East Midlands

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the East Midlands is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.64% 0.91% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.96% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £263 £293 £233
25th Percentile £274 £300 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £363 £275
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £380 £400 £319
90th Percentile £415 £403 £338
England median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +22.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 694 731 862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.97% 94.81% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 480 650
10th Percentile £200 £205 £213
25th Percentile £325 £352 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £618 £620 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 64 41
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.95 £14.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £23.21 £21.60 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +0.37% +7.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.49 £54.00
90th Percentile £30.30 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Northamptonshire -11 3 £271 -26.94%
Leicestershire -3 1 £360 -0.69% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £438 - 1
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 East Midlands region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (20.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) Finance

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) JMeter
4 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle