Test Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South West

Test Analyst
England > South West

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the South West is £356, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 139
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 12 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.60% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £290 £288 £372
25th Percentile £325 £310 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £340 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -24.86% +16.03%
75th Percentile £463 £413 £547
90th Percentile £488 £700 £568
England median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.43
Median hourly rate - - £23.86
75th Percentile - - £24.28
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.30 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -49.50% -7.69% +83.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,803 2,281 3,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 92.35% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,339 2,041
10th Percentile £220 £227 £300
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -6.79% +2.38%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £701 £713
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 228 311
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.07 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.22 £35.00 £44.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.26 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -62.61% +17.32% -4.45%
75th Percentile £64.50 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 South West.

Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the South West

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the South West

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the South West

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Analyst job vacancies in the South West

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Bristol +5 7 £375 - 3
Somerset - 2 £333 - 2
Gloucestershire +7 1 - - 1
Wiltshire +2 1 £363 +11.54%
Dorset - 1 - -
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 October 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 South West region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Power BI
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (33.33%) Use Case
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (16.67%) Android
5 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) LAN

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) VoIP
1 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Server Migrations
5 2 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Graphite
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce