Senior Test Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in England is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 600 733
Rank change year-on-year +94 +133 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 30 60 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.12% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.12% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 40
10th Percentile £326 £308 £363
25th Percentile £368 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £488
90th Percentile £544 £609 £528
UK median daily rate £435 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 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
London +81 24 £438 -8.85% 3
Midlands +42 5 £525 +61.54% 1
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
North of England +39 1 £325 -18.75%
North West +18 1 £325 -18.75%
East Midlands +13 1 - - 1
Senior Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 19 (63.33%) DevOps
3 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 18 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (60.00%) Selenium
4 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
5 14 (46.67%) Performance Testing
5 14 (46.67%) Scrum
5 14 (46.67%) C#
5 14 (46.67%) .NET
5 14 (46.67%) SpecFlow
6 13 (43.33%) WebDriver
6 13 (43.33%) Visual Studio
6 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
7 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
7 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
7 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
7 11 (36.67%) AngularJS
8 10 (33.33%) Entra ID
8 10 (33.33%) XML
8 10 (33.33%) B2C
8 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
9 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
9 8 (26.67%) JIRA
10 7 (23.33%) Functional Testing
10 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
11 6 (20.00%) API Testing
12 5 (16.67%) Test Planning

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 2 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 18 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.67%) dbt
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.33%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.33%) Commercetools
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Selenium
2 14 (46.67%) SpecFlow
3 13 (43.33%) Visual Studio
3 13 (43.33%) WebDriver
4 8 (26.67%) JIRA
5 3 (10.00%) Postman
6 2 (6.67%) Appium
6 2 (6.67%) LoadRunner
6 2 (6.67%) Rational Performance Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.33%) Git
7 1 (3.33%) HP UFT
7 1 (3.33%) JMeter
7 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Back Office
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) .NET
2 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
2 11 (36.67%) AngularJS
3 10 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (6.67%) Playwright
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Contactless
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) DevOps
3 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 14 (46.67%) Performance Testing
5 14 (46.67%) Scrum
6 10 (33.33%) B2C
7 8 (26.67%) Software Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Functional Testing
9 6 (20.00%) API Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (16.67%) Integration Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Manual Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Test Planning
10 5 (16.67%) Test Scripting
11 4 (13.33%) Regression Testing
11 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
12 3 (10.00%) Defect Management
12 3 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) C#
2 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ISEB
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Aderant
4 1 (3.33%) Dataiku
4 1 (3.33%) Workday