Test Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Test Analyst
England > North of England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 179 204
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 23 23 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.47% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.44% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 39
10th Percentile £313 £356 £263
25th Percentile £405 £388 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £580 £500 £431
90th Percentile - £519 £488
England median daily rate £450 £475 £415
% change year-on-year -5.26% +14.46% +10.67%

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 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the North of England

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst 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 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the North of England

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst 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 17 June 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
North West +13 13 £570 +42.50% 4
North East +13 5 £420 -
Yorkshire +12 5 £490 -4.39% 1
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 North of England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Validation
2 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (34.78%) Business Continuity
2 8 (34.78%) Selenium
2 8 (34.78%) Use Case
2 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
2 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) IT Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Cyber Resilience
2 8 (34.78%) Strategic Roadmap
2 8 (34.78%) NIST
2 8 (34.78%) Business Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
3 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) QA
4 6 (26.09%) Functional Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) C#
6 4 (17.39%) Test Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Postman
6 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
7 3 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Mobile App

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (8.70%) BrowserStack
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Commercetools
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Selenium
2 4 (17.39%) Postman
3 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
3 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
3 2 (8.70%) Zephyr
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Billing
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (8.70%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Validation
2 8 (34.78%) Business Continuity
2 8 (34.78%) Business Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Cyber Resilience
2 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
2 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (34.78%) IT Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
2 8 (34.78%) Strategic Roadmap
2 8 (34.78%) Use Case
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
3 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Functional Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Test Planning
7 3 (13.04%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Apex Code
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) SOQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) NIST
2 6 (26.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Brio
1 2 (8.70%) HP
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle