QA Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £509, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 427 480
Rank change year-on-year +39 +53 -50
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 13 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.013% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.014% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 18
10th Percentile £463 - £263
25th Percentile £467 £263 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £275 £394
Median % change year-on-year +85.09% -30.20% +9.44%
75th Percentile £517 £288 £428
90th Percentile £519 - £449
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £405
% change year-on-year -25.93% +66.67% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

QA Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East - 8 £505 -
Yorkshire - 3 £517 -
North of England - 3 £517 -
Midlands +15 1 £380 +38.18%
East Midlands - 1 £380 -
Wales - 1 £550 -
Scotland - 1 £550 -
QA Test Analyst
UK

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Test Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) Procure-to-Pay
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (46.15%) Test Management
4 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Selenium
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Postman
6 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (23.08%) IT Audit
7 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (15.38%) Telecoms

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Postman
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (46.15%) Test Management
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) IT Audit
5 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
6 2 (15.38%) E-business
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
7 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Ariba
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow