Senior Test Analyst Contracts in London

Senior Test Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in London is £400, 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 336 358 446
Rank change year-on-year +22 +88 +115
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 17 33 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 41
10th Percentile £349 £358 £325
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -8.85% +12.94%
75th Percentile £553 £478 £585
90th Percentile £650 £543 £618
England median daily rate £388 £440 £463
% change year-on-year -11.93% -4.86% +8.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in London

Senior Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London 0 1 £388 -4.62%
Senior Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) System Integration Testing
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) Logistics
5 6 (35.29%) QA
5 6 (35.29%) Finance
5 6 (35.29%) Windows
6 5 (29.41%) SQL
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
6 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
6 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Planning
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
7 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) QARun
7 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Web Services
7 4 (23.53%) Unix
7 4 (23.53%) MS Access
7 4 (23.53%) Citrix
7 4 (23.53%) WinRunner
7 4 (23.53%) Middleware
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (17.65%) Defect Management

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) 4G
1 2 (11.76%) 5G
1 2 (11.76%) VoLTE
1 2 (11.76%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MS Access
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) QARun
1 4 (23.53%) WinRunner
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Billing
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Middleware
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) System Integration Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) Logistics
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Test Planning
4 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
5 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
6 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Data Mapping
7 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Citrix
2 1 (5.88%) Murex
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle