Test Analyst Contracts in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 311 335
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 148 241 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.70% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 181 296
10th Percentile £313 £306 £295
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £586
90th Percentile £650 £580 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £447 £450
% change year-on-year -4.92% -0.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in England

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 Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +10 85 £450 - 17
South East +25 29 £400 -27.27% 12
Midlands +7 18 £449 +23.86% 6
West Midlands +11 16 £450 +24.14% 6
South West +46 7 £378 -22.56% 6
North West +9 5 £335 -41.23% 1
North of England +1 5 £335 -33.03% 3
East Midlands -2 2 £400 +10.34%
East of England +26 1 £313 - 4
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 62 (41.89%) Test Automation
2 49 (33.11%) Agile
3 45 (30.41%) Social Skills
4 42 (28.38%) Security Cleared
4 42 (28.38%) QA
5 41 (27.70%) Finance
6 36 (24.32%) Software Testing
6 36 (24.32%) User Acceptance Testing
7 34 (22.97%) Windows
8 31 (20.95%) System Integration Testing
9 27 (18.24%) SC Cleared
9 27 (18.24%) JIRA
10 26 (17.57%) Test Scripting
10 26 (17.57%) Azure
11 25 (16.89%) DevOps
11 25 (16.89%) ISTQB
11 25 (16.89%) Java
12 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.54%) SQL
13 23 (15.54%) Waterfall
13 23 (15.54%) Integration Testing
14 22 (14.86%) Oracle
15 21 (14.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 21 (14.19%) Non-Functional Testing
15 21 (14.19%) Defect Management
16 20 (13.51%) Test Planning
17 19 (12.84%) Test Management
17 19 (12.84%) Regression Testing
17 19 (12.84%) Logistics
18 18 (12.16%) Test Strategy

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 10 (6.76%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Appian
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Kondor
1 2 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Finacle
2 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.57%) Azure
2 15 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.41%) SaaS
4 6 (4.05%) AWS
5 4 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 3 (2.03%) GCP
6 3 (2.03%) GitHub
7 2 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.68%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) 5G
1 5 (3.38%) VoWiFi
2 4 (2.70%) VoLTE
3 3 (2.03%) 4G
3 3 (2.03%) SMS
4 2 (1.35%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (1.35%) HTTP
4 2 (1.35%) LAN
4 2 (1.35%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (1.35%) SS7
4 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.35%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.68%) 3G
5 1 (0.68%) Firewall
5 1 (0.68%) LTE
5 1 (0.68%) Multicast
5 1 (0.68%) SNMP
5 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) MS Access
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.70%) MySQL
5 3 (2.03%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.68%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 27 (18.24%) JIRA
2 14 (9.46%) JMeter
2 14 (9.46%) Selenium
3 12 (8.11%) TestRail
4 10 (6.76%) QARun
4 10 (6.76%) WinRunner
5 9 (6.08%) LoadRunner
6 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
7 6 (4.05%) Postman
8 5 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.38%) HP UFT
9 4 (2.70%) SoapUI
9 4 (2.70%) TestComplete
9 4 (2.70%) Toad
9 4 (2.70%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.35%) eggPlant
11 2 (1.35%) Git
11 2 (1.35%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.70%) Finance
3 16 (10.81%) Banking
4 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.03%) Retail
8 2 (1.35%) Billing
8 2 (1.35%) Front Office
8 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (4.73%) Web Services
2 7 (4.73%) XML
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
3 6 (4.05%) Middleware
3 6 (4.05%) Playwright
4 4 (2.70%) Kafka
4 4 (2.70%) SOAP
5 3 (2.03%) ADO
6 2 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.35%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.68%) CSS
7 1 (0.68%) FpML
7 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.68%) HTML
7 1 (0.68%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.03%) EPoS
4 3 (2.03%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.35%) PDA
5 2 (1.35%) PMI
5 2 (1.35%) Wiki
6 1 (0.68%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.97%) Windows
2 11 (7.43%) Linux
3 9 (6.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.89%) Test Automation
2 49 (33.11%) Agile
3 36 (24.32%) Software Testing
3 36 (24.32%) User Acceptance Testing
4 31 (20.95%) System Integration Testing
5 26 (17.57%) Test Scripting
6 25 (16.89%) DevOps
7 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.54%) Integration Testing
8 23 (15.54%) Waterfall
9 21 (14.19%) Defect Management
9 21 (14.19%) Non-Functional Testing
10 20 (13.51%) Test Planning
11 19 (12.84%) Logistics
11 19 (12.84%) Regression Testing
11 19 (12.84%) Test Management
12 18 (12.16%) Test Strategy
13 17 (11.49%) Validation
14 16 (10.81%) Manual Testing
15 13 (8.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.89%) Java
2 23 (15.54%) SQL
3 15 (10.14%) Python
4 14 (9.46%) VB
5 13 (8.78%) C#
6 9 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.41%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) RPG
Qualifications
1 42 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.89%) ISTQB
4 21 (14.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 14 (9.46%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.76%) ISEB
7 4 (2.70%) Degree
8 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.38%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) SEPA
3 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Grafana
1 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (14.86%) Oracle
2 14 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.08%) SAP
4 7 (4.73%) Talend
5 6 (4.05%) Citrix
6 5 (3.38%) Murex
7 4 (2.70%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.70%) Denodo
7 4 (2.70%) Reuters
7 4 (2.70%) webMethods
8 3 (2.03%) Workday
9 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.35%) Calypso
9 2 (1.35%) Databricks
9 2 (1.35%) HP
9 2 (1.35%) Informatica
9 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.68%) Mavenir