Test Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Test Analyst
England > North of England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £424, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 157 153
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 25 7 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.53% 0.20% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.21% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 22
10th Percentile £324 £264 £359
25th Percentile £360 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% -24.32% +14.20%
75th Percentile £475 - £513
90th Percentile £532 £448 £592
England median daily rate £391 £425 £484
% change year-on-year -7.94% -12.10% +13.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.30 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -51.52% -3.85% +83.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,277 3,286 4,356
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.10% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 1,893 2,917
10th Percentile £213 £232 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £655 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 173 205
10th Percentile £16.53 £15.36 £15.48
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.49% -8.00% +27.91%
75th Percentile £56.44 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.21 £60.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the North of England

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Yorkshire - 13 £384 -
North West -26 12 £450 +28.57% 1
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (64.00%) Test Management
2 14 (56.00%) JIRA
3 13 (52.00%) ISTQB
4 12 (48.00%) CyberArk
4 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (48.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 11 (44.00%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (40.00%) Agile
6 10 (40.00%) API Testing
6 10 (40.00%) SoapUI
7 9 (36.00%) Azure
7 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (36.00%) Kanban
7 9 (36.00%) Postman
7 9 (36.00%) Scrum
7 9 (36.00%) Security Testing
7 9 (36.00%) Software Testing
7 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
7 9 (36.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (32.00%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps
8 8 (32.00%) GCP
8 8 (32.00%) Google
8 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (32.00%) Thycotic
9 7 (28.00%) AWS
9 7 (28.00%) CISM
9 7 (28.00%) CISSP
9 7 (28.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) GCP
3 7 (28.00%) AWS
4 6 (24.00%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) JIRA
2 10 (40.00%) SoapUI
3 9 (36.00%) Postman
4 3 (12.00%) Selenium
5 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.00%) Appium
6 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) HP UFT
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (20.00%) Local Government
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) SailPoint
1 2 (8.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) AS400
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) iSeries
3 1 (4.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Test Management
2 12 (48.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 11 (44.00%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) API Testing
5 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) Kanban
5 9 (36.00%) Scrum
5 9 (36.00%) Security Testing
5 9 (36.00%) Software Testing
5 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
5 9 (36.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (32.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps
6 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (28.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Regression Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
8 5 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) C#
1 2 (8.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) ISTQB
2 7 (28.00%) CISM
2 7 (28.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) GDPR
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
1 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) CyberArk
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) BeyondTrust
2 8 (32.00%) Google
2 8 (32.00%) Thycotic
3 6 (24.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle