Test Analyst Contracts in Manchester

Test Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Test Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £335, 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 74 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 5 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% - 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% - 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile £248 - £351
25th Percentile £300 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £398 - £419
90th Percentile £437 - £438
North West median daily rate £335 £570 £400
% change year-on-year -41.23% +42.50% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in Manchester

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in Manchester

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in Manchester

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in Manchester

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

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 Manchester region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Workday
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) BambooHR
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Sage
1 1 (20.00%) Talend
1 1 (20.00%) Workday