Test Analyst Contracts in the South East

Test Analyst
England > South East

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the South East is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 152 159
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 49 68 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.87% 1.15% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.22% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 60 75
10th Percentile £362 £312 £309
25th Percentile £472 £350 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +16.19% -1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £453
90th Percentile £605 £589 £495
England median daily rate £450 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -5.26% +15.85% +11.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the South East

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the South East

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the South East

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the South East

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Hampshire +1 30 £550 +10.00% 1
Thames Valley 0 16 £500 +33.33% 1
Berkshire -5 11 £505 +3.49% 1
Buckinghamshire +20 5 £360 +5.11%
East Sussex +6 1 - -
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 South East region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 33 (67.35%) Agile
2 30 (61.22%) Test Management
3 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
4 24 (48.98%) DV Cleared
4 24 (48.98%) Test Automation
4 24 (48.98%) TestRail
5 23 (46.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 23 (46.94%) Continuous Integration
5 23 (46.94%) ISTQB
6 15 (30.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 13 (26.53%) Requirements Analysis
9 12 (24.49%) QA
10 9 (18.37%) JIRA
10 9 (18.37%) Oracle
10 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (18.37%) Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (18.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (18.37%) DevOps
10 9 (18.37%) Azure
11 7 (14.29%) Test Scripting
11 7 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
12 6 (12.24%) Finance
12 6 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (8.16%) End-to-End Testing
13 4 (8.16%) Degree
13 4 (8.16%) Software Testing
13 4 (8.16%) Software Engineering

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
1 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SNMP
1 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.04%) DB2
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (48.98%) TestRail
2 9 (18.37%) JIRA
3 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.08%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.08%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) GoogleTest
3 2 (4.08%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.04%) Automotive
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) CSS
1 2 (4.08%) HTML
2 1 (2.04%) .NET
2 1 (2.04%) ADO
2 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Agile
2 30 (61.22%) Test Management
3 24 (48.98%) Test Automation
4 23 (46.94%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (30.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 13 (26.53%) Requirements Analysis
7 9 (18.37%) DevOps
7 9 (18.37%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (14.29%) Test Scripting
9 6 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (8.16%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (8.16%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.16%) Software Testing
11 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (6.12%) ERP
11 3 (6.12%) Scenario Testing
11 3 (6.12%) Validation
12 2 (4.08%) E-business
12 2 (4.08%) Scrum
12 2 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.08%) SQL
3 1 (2.04%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 24 (48.98%) DV Cleared
3 23 (46.94%) ISTQB
3 23 (46.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.08%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce