Senior Test Analyst Contract Job Trends in Preston

Senior Test Analyst
Lancashire > Preston

As of 21 August 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in Preston.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.61% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 142 72 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.59% 92.31% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 48 30
10th Percentile £395 £320 £200
25th Percentile £500 £410 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -19.13% +33.54%
75th Percentile £674 £630 £642
90th Percentile £950 £673 £795
Lancashire median daily rate £585 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +23.16% - -5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 5
10th Percentile £27.93 £26.88 £24.31
25th Percentile £47.00 £32.34 £25.30
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.12 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.56% +68.29% -38.97%
75th Percentile £76.33 £70.16 £51.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.79 £61.25
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.56 £41.06 £40.33
% change year-on-year +10.95% +1.82% -12.39%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Senior Test Analyst job vacancy trend in Preston

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 21 August 2026, Senior 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 Preston region featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle