Test Analyst Contracts in London

Test Analyst
England > London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 307 380
Rank change year-on-year +28 +73 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 113 196 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.63% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.76% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 162 178
10th Percentile £321 £313 £313
25th Percentile £391 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £531 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £548 £650 £500
90th Percentile £640 £738 £591
England median daily rate £450 £475 £405
% change year-on-year -5.26% +17.28% +11.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in London

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 Test Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London +40 19 £445 -6.32%
South London +15 3 £288 -25.81%
East London -2 3 £468 +7.47% 1
North London - 1 £313 -
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 49 (43.36%) Test Automation
2 47 (41.59%) Agile
3 26 (23.01%) Finance
4 25 (22.12%) C#
5 24 (21.24%) Software Testing
6 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
7 22 (19.47%) Selenium
7 22 (19.47%) Security Cleared
8 21 (18.58%) SC Cleared
8 21 (18.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
9 20 (17.70%) Azure
10 19 (16.81%) Performance Testing
10 19 (16.81%) DevOps
11 18 (15.93%) Scrum
11 18 (15.93%) JIRA
12 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (15.04%) Test Scripting
12 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
13 16 (14.16%) Postman
13 16 (14.16%) Scenario Testing
14 15 (13.27%) Manual Testing
14 15 (13.27%) WebDriver
15 14 (12.39%) SpecFlow
15 14 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (12.39%) Back Office
15 14 (12.39%) Visual Studio
15 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
16 13 (11.50%) End-to-End Testing
16 13 (11.50%) SQL Server

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 (1.77%) CMS
1 2 (1.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.70%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.42%) AWS
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (1.77%) dbt
5 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.77%) Serverless
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.88%) Boomi
6 1 (0.88%) FinancialForce
6 1 (0.88%) Firebase
6 1 (0.88%) GitHub
6 1 (0.88%) SaaS
6 1 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) MVNO
1 2 (1.77%) SMS
1 2 (1.77%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.88%) DVB
2 1 (0.88%) SSH
2 1 (0.88%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (19.47%) Selenium
2 18 (15.93%) JIRA
3 16 (14.16%) Postman
4 15 (13.27%) WebDriver
5 14 (12.39%) SpecFlow
5 14 (12.39%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.42%) Appium
6 5 (4.42%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.54%) JMeter
8 3 (2.65%) Rational Performance Tester
9 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.77%) Git
9 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.77%) JUnit
9 2 (1.77%) Maven
9 2 (1.77%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.77%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.88%) Gradle
10 1 (0.88%) JIRA Agile
General
1 26 (23.01%) Finance
2 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.39%) Back Office
3 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.62%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Billing
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.50%) XML
2 12 (10.62%) .NET
3 11 (9.73%) .NET Framework
3 11 (9.73%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.54%) ADO
6 2 (1.77%) FpML
6 2 (1.77%) Playwright
6 2 (1.77%) REST
7 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.88%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.88%) JSON
7 1 (0.88%) Kafka
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
7 1 (0.88%) Web Services
7 1 (0.88%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (0.88%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.19%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) Contactless
5 1 (0.88%) Derivative
5 1 (0.88%) DTCC
5 1 (0.88%) IVR
5 1 (0.88%) MPEG
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) STB
5 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.88%) W3C
5 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.73%) Android
2 3 (2.65%) Linux
3 2 (1.77%) Unix
3 2 (1.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (43.36%) Test Automation
2 47 (41.59%) Agile
3 24 (21.24%) Software Testing
4 21 (18.58%) User Acceptance Testing
5 19 (16.81%) DevOps
5 19 (16.81%) Performance Testing
6 18 (15.93%) Scrum
7 17 (15.04%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.04%) Test Scripting
8 16 (14.16%) Scenario Testing
9 15 (13.27%) Manual Testing
10 14 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (11.50%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (11.50%) Integration Testing
11 13 (11.50%) Migration
12 12 (10.62%) Test Strategy
13 11 (9.73%) Non-Functional Testing
14 10 (8.85%) Acceptance Criteria
14 10 (8.85%) Functional Testing
14 10 (8.85%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.12%) C#
2 12 (10.62%) SQL
3 11 (9.73%) Java
3 11 (9.73%) Kotlin
3 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.65%) Python
5 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Ruby
6 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) Degree
4 5 (4.42%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.54%) ISEB
6 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.65%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.96%) Oracle
3 7 (6.19%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) HP
5 3 (2.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.77%) Aderant
6 2 (1.77%) Murex
7 1 (0.88%) Citrix
7 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.88%) Dell
7 1 (0.88%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) VMware