Test Analyst Contracts in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in England is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 340 347
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 232 350 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.70% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.74% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 290 412
10th Percentile £306 £289 £313
25th Percentile £363 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +15.15% +13.79%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £480
90th Percentile £580 £688 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £405
% change year-on-year +0.56% +10.49% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.50
75th Percentile - - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £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 £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
London +40 113 £450 -16.28% 14
South East +10 45 £550 +25.00% 1
Midlands +32 33 £363 -11.04% 5
North of England +23 21 £517 +29.25% 9
West Midlands +13 19 £363 -13.17% 1
East Midlands +27 14 £363 +17.89% 4
North West +23 13 £570 +42.50% 5
South West +17 7 £488 +25.81% 2
East of England +2 5 £313 -0.79% 1
North East +20 4 £415 -
Yorkshire +17 4 £500 -2.39% 4
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 95 (40.95%) Agile
2 82 (35.34%) Test Automation
3 60 (25.86%) Security Cleared
4 52 (22.41%) Test Scripting
4 52 (22.41%) Social Skills
5 49 (21.12%) User Acceptance Testing
6 43 (18.53%) Azure
6 43 (18.53%) DevOps
7 40 (17.24%) Finance
7 40 (17.24%) Test Management
8 39 (16.81%) Software Testing
9 38 (16.38%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (16.38%) JIRA
9 38 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (15.95%) ISTQB
10 37 (15.95%) SC Cleared
11 36 (15.52%) Selenium
12 33 (14.22%) Manual Testing
12 33 (14.22%) Oracle
12 33 (14.22%) Scenario Testing
13 32 (13.79%) QA
14 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
15 29 (12.50%) C#
15 29 (12.50%) Performance Testing
16 27 (11.64%) Test Planning
17 26 (11.21%) TestRail
18 25 (10.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 25 (10.78%) DV Cleared
18 25 (10.78%) Scrum
19 23 (9.91%) 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 8 (3.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (3.88%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle HRMS
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (18.53%) Azure
2 38 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.31%) AWS
3 10 (4.31%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
5 3 (1.29%) BrowserStack
5 3 (1.29%) SaaS
6 2 (0.86%) dbt
6 2 (0.86%) Firebase
6 2 (0.86%) Serverless
6 2 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) Boomi
7 1 (0.43%) FinancialForce
7 1 (0.43%) GCP
7 1 (0.43%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) MVNO
1 2 (0.86%) SMS
1 2 (0.86%) SNMP
1 2 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
1 2 (0.86%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.43%) DVB
2 1 (0.43%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.02%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) DB2
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) MySQL
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.43%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (16.38%) JIRA
2 36 (15.52%) Selenium
3 26 (11.21%) TestRail
4 23 (9.91%) Postman
5 17 (7.33%) Visual Studio
5 17 (7.33%) WebDriver
6 14 (6.03%) SpecFlow
7 10 (4.31%) JMeter
8 6 (2.59%) Appium
8 6 (2.59%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.16%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.72%) Git
10 4 (1.72%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.29%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
11 3 (1.29%) Rational Performance Tester
12 2 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 52 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.24%) Finance
3 21 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.03%) Back Office
5 13 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.31%) Banking
8 9 (3.88%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Billing
10 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Electronics
10 2 (0.86%) Legal
10 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.90%) .NET
2 14 (6.03%) XML
3 12 (5.17%) AngularJS
4 11 (4.74%) .NET Framework
5 7 (3.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.16%) ADO
7 3 (1.29%) CSS
7 3 (1.29%) HTML
7 3 (1.29%) LDAP
8 2 (0.86%) FpML
8 2 (0.86%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.86%) Playwright
8 2 (0.86%) REST
8 2 (0.86%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (0.43%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.43%) JSON
9 1 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.43%) Middleware
9 1 (0.43%) RESTful
9 1 (0.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.47%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.02%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.29%) NHS
5 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.86%) IVR
5 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Contactless
6 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.43%) Derivative
6 1 (0.43%) DTCC
6 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.43%) PKI
6 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) STB
6 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.43%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.17%) Android
2 5 (2.16%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (40.95%) Agile
2 82 (35.34%) Test Automation
3 52 (22.41%) Test Scripting
4 49 (21.12%) User Acceptance Testing
5 43 (18.53%) DevOps
6 40 (17.24%) Test Management
7 39 (16.81%) Software Testing
8 38 (16.38%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (14.22%) Manual Testing
9 33 (14.22%) Scenario Testing
10 29 (12.50%) Performance Testing
11 27 (11.64%) Test Planning
12 25 (10.78%) Scrum
13 23 (9.91%) Test Strategy
14 22 (9.48%) Functional Testing
15 21 (9.05%) Integration Testing
16 20 (8.62%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.62%) End-to-End Testing
17 18 (7.76%) Defect Management
18 17 (7.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.50%) C#
2 20 (8.62%) SQL
3 14 (6.03%) Java
4 12 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.74%) Kotlin
6 8 (3.45%) Python
7 7 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.86%) ProC
8 2 (0.86%) Ruby
9 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.43%) Bicep
9 1 (0.43%) C++
9 1 (0.43%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 60 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.95%) ISTQB
2 37 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.78%) DV Cleared
3 25 (10.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 11 (4.74%) Degree
5 5 (2.16%) ISEB
6 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.79%) QA
2 8 (3.45%) NIST
3 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Ansible
2 2 (0.86%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 33 (14.22%) Oracle
2 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.17%) SAP
4 10 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.59%) HP
6 4 (1.72%) Denodo
7 3 (1.29%) IBM
8 2 (0.86%) Aderant
8 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.86%) Google
8 2 (0.86%) Murex
8 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.43%) Brio
9 1 (0.43%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.43%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.43%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.43%) Splunk
9 1 (0.43%) VMware
9 1 (0.43%) Workday