Test Analyst Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the Thames Valley is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 130 127
Rank change year-on-year +40 -3 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 12 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.56% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.60% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 20
10th Percentile £320 £367 £313
25th Percentile £325 £453 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £394 £511 £400
90th Percentile £398 £519 £504
South East median daily rate £400 £550 £445
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +11.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the Thames Valley

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the Thames Valley

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the Thames Valley

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +26 6 £388 -23.19% 1
Buckinghamshire +18 6 £375 +4.90%
Test Analyst
South East

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Validation
1 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
2 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Logistics
3 4 (33.33%) QA
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 2 (16.67%) MS Access
5 2 (16.67%) SMS
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) SQL

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) 5G
1 2 (16.67%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (16.67%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (16.67%) SMS
1 2 (16.67%) SS7
1 2 (16.67%) VoLTE
1 2 (16.67%) VoWiFi
1 2 (16.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MS Access
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) QARun
2 2 (16.67%) WinRunner
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (50.00%) Validation
2 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
2 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
2 5 (41.67%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Logistics
3 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
1 2 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) HP