Test Architect Contracts in England

Test Architect
UK > England

The median Test Architect daily rate in England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 630 746
Rank change year-on-year +136 +116 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Test Architect 45 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.032% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 17
10th Percentile £400 £428 £440
25th Percentile £475 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £525 £638
90th Percentile - £618 £643
UK median daily rate £563 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +18.42% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
% change year-on-year +41.63% - -

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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Architect in England

Test Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Architect in England

Test Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Architect in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Architect in England

Test Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Architect in England

Test Architect
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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
East of England +44 35 - - 3
South West +15 6 £519 +9.21%
London +95 2 £588 +2.17% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Test Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Test Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 41 (91.11%) Test Strategy
2 37 (82.22%) SC Cleared
2 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
3 35 (77.78%) Social Skills
3 35 (77.78%) Project Management
4 33 (73.33%) Electronics
4 33 (73.33%) Manufacturing
4 33 (73.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (73.33%) Analogue Electronics
5 31 (68.89%) Aerospace
6 7 (15.56%) QA
7 6 (13.33%) ISTQB
7 6 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) Performance Testing
9 3 (6.67%) Finance
9 3 (6.67%) SQL
10 2 (4.44%) Java
10 2 (4.44%) Python
10 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.44%) JUnit
10 2 (4.44%) JMeter
10 2 (4.44%) Bugzilla
10 2 (4.44%) Scrum
10 2 (4.44%) Agile
10 2 (4.44%) Banking
10 2 (4.44%) Security Testing

Test Architect 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 1 (2.22%) IIS
1 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) AWS
1 2 (4.44%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Bugzilla
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
1 2 (4.44%) JMeter
1 2 (4.44%) JUnit
1 2 (4.44%) Selenium
1 2 (4.44%) TestNG
1 2 (4.44%) TestRail
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 33 (73.33%) Electronics
2 33 (73.33%) Manufacturing
3 31 (68.89%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 33 (73.33%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) AIX
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Solaris
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (91.11%) Test Strategy
2 35 (77.78%) Project Management
3 33 (73.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (6.67%) Performance Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Agile
7 2 (4.44%) Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) Data Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (4.44%) Defect Tracking
7 2 (4.44%) Kanban
7 2 (4.44%) Manual Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Scrum
7 2 (4.44%) Security Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Software Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Java
2 2 (4.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (82.22%) SC Cleared
1 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Grafana
1 1 (2.22%) Kibana
1 1 (2.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
1 1 (2.22%) F5
1 1 (2.22%) IBM
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle