Test Analyst Contracts in London

Test Analyst
England > London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in London is £450, 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 268 278 305
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 85 113 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.68% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 79 162
10th Percentile £314 £321 £313
25th Percentile £363 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -15.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £548 £650
90th Percentile £798 £640 £738
England median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +17.28%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 -3 12 £381 -14.33% 1
East London +13 1 £360 -22.99%
West London - 1 £395 - 4
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 39 (45.88%) Test Automation
2 38 (44.71%) Finance
3 30 (35.29%) QA
3 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 26 (30.59%) Windows
5 24 (28.24%) System Integration Testing
6 23 (27.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (22.35%) Agile
7 19 (22.35%) Java
8 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 17 (20.00%) DevOps
9 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
9 16 (18.82%) Banking
9 16 (18.82%) Software Testing
10 15 (17.65%) Azure
10 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.65%) Waterfall
10 15 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
11 14 (16.47%) Logistics
11 14 (16.47%) Python
12 13 (15.29%) SQL
12 13 (15.29%) JMeter
12 13 (15.29%) Test Scripting
13 12 (14.12%) Integration Testing
13 12 (14.12%) JIRA
13 12 (14.12%) VB
14 11 (12.94%) Regression Testing
14 11 (12.94%) Test Planning
15 10 (11.76%) Test Strategy
15 10 (11.76%) Stress Testing

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 6 (7.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Kondor
1 2 (2.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Finacle
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.65%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.88%) SaaS
4 3 (3.53%) GCP
4 3 (3.53%) GitHub
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.18%) AWS
6 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) VoWiFi
2 2 (2.35%) 4G
2 2 (2.35%) 5G
2 2 (2.35%) HTTP
2 2 (2.35%) LAN
2 2 (2.35%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.18%) Multicast
3 1 (1.18%) SMS
3 1 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.71%) BigQuery
2 4 (4.71%) MS Access
3 3 (3.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) JMeter
2 12 (14.12%) JIRA
3 9 (10.59%) LoadRunner
3 9 (10.59%) Selenium
4 8 (9.41%) QARun
4 8 (9.41%) WinRunner
5 5 (5.88%) HP UFT
5 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) Postman
6 4 (4.71%) TestComplete
7 3 (3.53%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.35%) eggPlant
8 2 (2.35%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.18%) Appium
9 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.18%) Gradle
9 1 (1.18%) JIRA Agile
9 1 (1.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (44.71%) Finance
2 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.82%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Billing
6 2 (2.35%) Front Office
7 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.18%) Retail
7 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.88%) Playwright
2 5 (5.88%) Web Services
3 4 (4.71%) .NET
3 4 (4.71%) Kafka
3 4 (4.71%) Middleware
4 3 (3.53%) ADO
5 2 (2.35%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.35%) SOAP
5 2 (2.35%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.18%) FpML
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.18%) WireMock
6 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (3.53%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.35%) PDA
3 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Wiki
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.18%) PMI
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Windows
2 10 (11.76%) Linux
3 5 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (45.88%) Test Automation
2 24 (28.24%) System Integration Testing
3 23 (27.06%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (22.35%) Agile
5 17 (20.00%) DevOps
6 16 (18.82%) Software Testing
7 15 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
7 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (17.65%) Waterfall
8 14 (16.47%) Logistics
9 13 (15.29%) Test Scripting
10 12 (14.12%) Integration Testing
11 11 (12.94%) Regression Testing
11 11 (12.94%) Test Planning
12 10 (11.76%) Stress Testing
12 10 (11.76%) Test Strategy
13 9 (10.59%) Manual Testing
14 8 (9.41%) Collaborative Culture
15 7 (8.24%) CI/CD
15 7 (8.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.35%) Java
2 14 (16.47%) Python
3 13 (15.29%) SQL
4 12 (14.12%) VB
5 10 (11.76%) C#
6 8 (9.41%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.18%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) Degree
3 3 (3.53%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) ISEB
4 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (35.29%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) SEPA
3 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Oracle
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) Murex
2 5 (5.88%) SAP
3 4 (4.71%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.71%) Citrix
3 4 (4.71%) Reuters
4 2 (2.35%) Calypso
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco
4 2 (2.35%) Workday
5 1 (1.18%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.18%) Concur
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) Informatica
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Talend
5 1 (1.18%) UiPath