Test Analyst Contracts in the Midlands

Test Analyst
England > Midlands

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the Midlands is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 139
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 14 32 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 1.18% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.28% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 21
10th Percentile £317 £258 -
25th Percentile £372 £309 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £363 £375
Median % change year-on-year +23.59% -3.33% -7.98%
75th Percentile £467 £418 £430
90th Percentile £496 £470 £433
England median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.94% -5.26% +15.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,771 2,498 3,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 92.01% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,687 2,225
10th Percentile £200 £213 £219
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £683
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 216 120
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.45
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.18
Median hourly rate £18.75 £19.36 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £30.50
90th Percentile £34.24 £52.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.20 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.47% -16.67% +95.65%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the Midlands

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the Midlands

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the Midlands

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the Midlands

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands +13 12 £449 +23.86% 4
East Midlands -3 2 £280 -22.76% 2
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 Midlands region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 6 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
3 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 4 (28.57%) Denodo
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) QA
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (14.29%) API Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Talend
5 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SAS
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.14%) jQuery
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) API Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (7.14%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Denodo
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Talend
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) webMethods