Test Analyst Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Analyst
England > East Midlands

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the East Midlands is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 72 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 14 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.83% 0.77% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 0.82% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £283 £248 £281
25th Percentile £355 £282 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £338 £313
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £369 £438 £381
90th Percentile £401 - £426
England median daily rate £450 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -5.26% +15.85% +11.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 719 973 1,389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.10% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 745 1,014
10th Percentile £164 £213 £172
25th Percentile £260 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +5.88% +15.02%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £513
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 64 94
10th Percentile £12.13 £11.80 £9.52
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £17.70 £20.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +18.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £25.18 £30.50 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £63.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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
Northamptonshire - 6 £363 -
Leicestershire +13 5 £363 +30.63%
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 East Midlands region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
1 7 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Web Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) System Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Ansible
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
5 3 (21.43%) Python
5 3 (21.43%) LDAP
5 3 (21.43%) Selenium
5 3 (21.43%) JMeter
5 3 (21.43%) JIRA
5 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Confluence
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) NHS
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (14.29%) TestRail

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
1 3 (21.43%) JMeter
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) TestRail
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 4 (28.57%) System Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Web Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Test Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (7.14%) QA Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
6 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow