Test Architect Contracts in England

Test Architect
UK > England

The median Test Architect daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 622 760
Rank change year-on-year +113 +138 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Test Architect 41 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.030% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.032% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 23
10th Percentile £554 £425 £458
25th Percentile £559 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £531 £638
90th Percentile - £638 £658
UK median daily rate £588 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +20.51% -4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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
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 20 June 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 +35 37 - - 1
London +81 3 £588 +2.17%
Test Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 37 (90.24%) Test Strategy
2 36 (87.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (85.37%) Electronics
3 35 (85.37%) Project Management
3 35 (85.37%) Manufacturing
3 35 (85.37%) Analogue Electronics
4 34 (82.93%) SC Cleared
4 34 (82.93%) Security Cleared
5 32 (78.05%) Social Skills
6 31 (75.61%) Aerospace
7 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.32%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (7.32%) Selenium
8 3 (7.32%) Finance
8 3 (7.32%) JUnit
8 3 (7.32%) Java
8 3 (7.32%) SQL
8 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
8 3 (7.32%) AWS
9 2 (4.88%) Kanban
9 2 (4.88%) Test Management
9 2 (4.88%) TestNG
9 2 (4.88%) Data Analytics
9 2 (4.88%) Analytics
9 2 (4.88%) TestRail
9 2 (4.88%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (4.88%) Python
9 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.88%) JMeter

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 (2.44%) IIS
1 1 (2.44%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.32%) AWS
2 2 (4.88%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JUnit
1 3 (7.32%) Selenium
2 2 (4.88%) Bugzilla
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) JMeter
2 2 (4.88%) TestNG
2 2 (4.88%) TestRail
3 1 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) Gradle
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) Maven
3 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.44%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (85.37%) Electronics
1 35 (85.37%) Manufacturing
2 32 (78.05%) Social Skills
3 31 (75.61%) Aerospace
4 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 35 (85.37%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) AIX
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Solaris
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) Test Strategy
2 36 (87.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (85.37%) Project Management
4 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.88%) Agile
6 2 (4.88%) Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (4.88%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (4.88%) Kanban
6 2 (4.88%) Scrum
6 2 (4.88%) Test Management
7 1 (2.44%) Containerisation
7 1 (2.44%) Design Patterns
7 1 (2.44%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (2.44%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (2.44%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) Java
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) Bash
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (82.93%) SC Cleared
1 34 (82.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.44%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
1 1 (2.44%) F5
1 1 (2.44%) IBM
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle