Senior Test Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 502 574
Rank change year-on-year +52 +72 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 36 57 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 50
10th Percentile £325 £336 £325
25th Percentile £361 £394 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £448 £443
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% +1.13% +4.12%
75th Percentile £405 £539 £550
90th Percentile £612 £575 £631
UK median daily rate £375 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -15.25% +4.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 23,170 34,772 44,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.87% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,220 22,729 31,567
10th Percentile £293 £293 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,631 1,333
10th Percentile £13.90 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.95 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in England

Senior Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
London +29 26 £381 -10.82% 4
South East +52 9 £375 -25.00% 3
Senior Test Analyst
UK

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (52.78%) System Integration Testing
3 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (44.44%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) Test Planning
6 13 (36.11%) Software Testing
7 12 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (33.33%) Logistics
7 12 (33.33%) Integration Testing
8 11 (30.56%) Windows
9 10 (27.78%) SQL
9 10 (27.78%) Regression Testing
9 10 (27.78%) Defect Management
9 10 (27.78%) Waterfall
9 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (25.00%) Test Strategy
10 9 (25.00%) DevOps
10 9 (25.00%) Validation
10 9 (25.00%) QA
11 8 (22.22%) JIRA
11 8 (22.22%) Manual Testing
11 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
12 7 (19.44%) Scenario Testing
12 7 (19.44%) Microservices
12 7 (19.44%) Finance
12 7 (19.44%) Unix
12 7 (19.44%) Citrix
12 7 (19.44%) Middleware
12 7 (19.44%) MS Access
12 7 (19.44%) Web Services

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (13.89%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) 5G
1 4 (11.11%) VoLTE
1 4 (11.11%) VoWiFi
2 2 (5.56%) 4G
2 2 (5.56%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (5.56%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (5.56%) SMS
2 2 (5.56%) SS7
2 2 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) MS Access
2 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) QARun
2 4 (11.11%) WinRunner
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) Selenium
4 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.56%) Toad
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) Postman
5 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Billing
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Middleware
1 7 (19.44%) Web Services
2 3 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) Playwright
3 2 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 7 (19.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) System Integration Testing
2 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 16 (44.44%) Agile
4 14 (38.89%) Test Planning
5 13 (36.11%) Software Testing
6 12 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 12 (33.33%) Logistics
6 12 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (27.78%) Defect Management
7 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.78%) Regression Testing
7 10 (27.78%) Waterfall
8 9 (25.00%) DevOps
8 9 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 9 (25.00%) Validation
9 8 (22.22%) Manual Testing
10 7 (19.44%) Microservices
10 7 (19.44%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
11 6 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) ISEB
3 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SEPA
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Citrix
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) webMethods