Senior Test Analyst Contracts in London

Senior Test Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in London is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 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
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 329 423
Rank change year-on-year -24 +94 +154
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 24 47 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 44
10th Percentile £316 £364 -
25th Percentile £334 £395 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £433 £430
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +0.58% -4.87%
75th Percentile £443 £476 £571
90th Percentile £638 £550 £628
England median daily rate £388 £445 £435
% change year-on-year -12.92% +2.30% +2.35%

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 12,646 15,317 22,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 94.19% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,555 10,844 16,760
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 200 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.48 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.90 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.04 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -11.91% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £54.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £81.58
England median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -12 2 £356 -10.94%
Senior Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (58.33%) System Integration Testing
3 12 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (37.50%) Integration Testing
5 9 (37.50%) Test Planning
5 9 (37.50%) Agile
5 9 (37.50%) Regression Testing
6 8 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 7 (29.17%) QA
7 7 (29.17%) Logistics
7 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
8 6 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (25.00%) DevOps
9 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Change Management
9 5 (20.83%) Finance
9 5 (20.83%) Defect Management
9 5 (20.83%) Traceability Matrix
9 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.67%) Business Agility
10 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 4 (16.67%) Validation
10 4 (16.67%) TDD
10 4 (16.67%) Scrum
10 4 (16.67%) CRM
10 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (16.67%) SDLC
10 4 (16.67%) SaaS
10 4 (16.67%) Confluence

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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) SaaS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) 4G
1 2 (8.33%) 5G
1 2 (8.33%) VoLTE
1 2 (8.33%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) QARun
1 3 (12.50%) WinRunner
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Billing
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) System Integration Testing
2 12 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Test Planning
5 8 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 7 (29.17%) Logistics
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Change Management
8 5 (20.83%) Defect Management
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Traceability Matrix
9 4 (16.67%) CRM
9 4 (16.67%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) TDD
9 4 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce