Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £437 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 285 223
Rank change year-on-year +26 -62 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 133 177 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.73% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.78% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 146 259
10th Percentile £306 £275 £290
25th Percentile £356 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £438
90th Percentile £580 £563 £495
UK median daily rate £446 £450 £405
% change year-on-year -0.89% +11.11% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £49.50
75th Percentile - - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

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 Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East -3 50 £550 +22.22% 4
Midlands +25 33 £363 -12.65% 3
North of England +28 24 £484 +13.76% 6
West Midlands +21 19 £363 -13.17% 1
East Midlands +24 14 £363 +7.41% 2
North West +13 14 £570 +42.50% 4
Scotland +12 11 £375 -7.86%
South West +17 7 £488 +21.88% 3
Yorkshire +22 6 £484 -5.66% 1
East of England +6 5 £313 +0.81%
North East +22 4 £415 - 1
Wales +18 3 £388 +5.08% 1
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 51 (38.35%) Agile
2 42 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
4 39 (29.32%) ISTQB
5 37 (27.82%) Test Scripting
6 36 (27.07%) Test Management
7 33 (24.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 30 (22.56%) Azure
9 29 (21.80%) Social Skills
10 28 (21.05%) DevOps
10 28 (21.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 27 (20.30%) TestRail
11 27 (20.30%) Oracle
12 26 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (18.05%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (18.05%) DV Cleared
14 23 (17.29%) QA
15 22 (16.54%) JIRA
16 21 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
17 18 (13.53%) Manual Testing
18 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
18 17 (12.78%) Finance
19 16 (12.03%) Validation
19 16 (12.03%) Selenium
19 16 (12.03%) Software Testing
19 16 (12.03%) Test Planning
20 15 (11.28%) Test Strategy
20 15 (11.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
21 14 (10.53%) SQL
22 13 (9.77%) Requirements Analysis

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.75%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.56%) Azure
2 26 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.01%) AWS
4 4 (3.01%) SaaS
5 2 (1.50%) BrowserStack
5 2 (1.50%) IaaS
5 2 (1.50%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.75%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) SNMP
1 2 (1.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.75%) DB2
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) TestRail
2 22 (16.54%) JIRA
3 16 (12.03%) Selenium
4 8 (6.02%) Postman
5 5 (3.76%) Git
5 5 (3.76%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.01%) JMeter
7 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.26%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.26%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.50%) GoogleTest
8 2 (1.50%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.50%) Subversion
8 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.50%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.50%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Finance
3 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Banking
6 2 (1.50%) Retail
7 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.75%) Automotive
7 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) .NET
2 3 (2.26%) ADO
2 3 (2.26%) LDAP
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.50%) CSS
3 2 (1.50%) HTML
3 2 (1.50%) JSON
4 1 (0.75%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.75%) SOAP
4 1 (0.75%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.75%) Web Services
4 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.01%) NHS
3 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.75%) IVR
4 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.35%) Agile
2 42 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 37 (27.82%) Test Scripting
4 36 (27.07%) Test Management
5 33 (24.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 28 (21.05%) DevOps
7 24 (18.05%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
9 18 (13.53%) Manual Testing
10 16 (12.03%) Software Testing
10 16 (12.03%) Test Planning
10 16 (12.03%) Validation
11 15 (11.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 15 (11.28%) Test Strategy
12 13 (9.77%) Requirements Analysis
13 12 (9.02%) Functional Testing
14 11 (8.27%) End-to-End Testing
14 11 (8.27%) Performance Testing
15 10 (7.52%) Defect Management
15 10 (7.52%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.53%) SQL
2 5 (3.76%) C#
2 5 (3.76%) Java
2 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
2 5 (3.76%) Python
3 3 (2.26%) C++
4 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.50%) VBA
4 2 (1.50%) VBScript
5 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.75%) ProC
5 1 (0.75%) SOQL
5 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.32%) ISTQB
3 28 (21.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 24 (18.05%) DV Cleared
5 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.76%) Degree
6 5 (3.76%) ISEB
7 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.29%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (1.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Ansible
1 3 (2.26%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 27 (20.30%) Oracle
2 10 (7.52%) SAP
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.01%) Denodo
4 4 (3.01%) HP
5 3 (2.26%) Workday
6 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.75%) Brio
7 1 (0.75%) Genesys
7 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow