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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 289 237
Rank change year-on-year +17 -52 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 132 142 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.63% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.66% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 114 234
10th Percentile £306 £275 £300
25th Percentile £356 £328 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £438
90th Percentile £580 £573 £495
UK median daily rate £443 £466 £405
% change year-on-year -5.09% +15.12% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £58.00 - £49.98
25th Percentile £58.75 - £50.69
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £51.88
75th Percentile £62.50 - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
UK median hourly rate £61.25 - £51.88
% change year-on-year - - +9.79%

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%

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 22 June 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 22 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 +6 49 £550 +27.17% 4
Midlands +31 32 £363 +12.40% 1
North of England +17 23 £490 +22.50% 2
West Midlands +24 19 £400 +23.08% 1
Scotland +41 13 £375 -11.76% 1
East Midlands +15 13 £363 +31.82%
North West +13 13 £570 +42.50% 2
South West -2 7 £405 +4.52% 3
East of England +1 6 £313 -21.38% 2
North East +13 5 £420 -
Yorkshire +12 5 £490 -4.39%
Wales +24 4 £469 +38.89%
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 50 (37.88%) Agile
2 39 (29.55%) Test Automation
3 38 (28.79%) Test Scripting
4 37 (28.03%) Security Cleared
5 36 (27.27%) Azure
6 35 (26.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 33 (25.00%) Test Management
8 32 (24.24%) ISTQB
9 31 (23.48%) DevOps
9 31 (23.48%) Social Skills
10 29 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (19.70%) Oracle
12 25 (18.94%) QA
13 22 (16.67%) TestRail
13 22 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 20 (15.15%) Selenium
15 19 (14.39%) JIRA
15 19 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (13.64%) SC Cleared
16 18 (13.64%) DV Cleared
17 17 (12.88%) Functional Testing
17 17 (12.88%) Manual Testing
18 16 (12.12%) Software Testing
18 16 (12.12%) Finance
18 16 (12.12%) Test Strategy
18 16 (12.12%) Scenario Testing
19 15 (11.36%) Test Planning
19 15 (11.36%) Validation
20 14 (10.61%) SQL
21 12 (9.09%) SAP

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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.76%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.27%) Azure
2 29 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.03%) AWS
3 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
4 3 (2.27%) SaaS
5 2 (1.52%) BrowserStack
5 2 (1.52%) IaaS
5 2 (1.52%) PaaS
6 1 (0.76%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) SNMP
1 2 (1.52%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.76%) DB2
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.76%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (16.67%) TestRail
2 20 (15.15%) Selenium
3 19 (14.39%) JIRA
4 9 (6.82%) Postman
5 5 (3.79%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.79%) Git
5 5 (3.79%) JMeter
5 5 (3.79%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.03%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.03%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.52%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.52%) GoogleTest
8 2 (1.52%) Maven
8 2 (1.52%) Subversion
8 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.52%) TestComplete
General
1 31 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.52%) Banking
6 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.76%) Automotive
7 1 (0.76%) Billing
7 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) .NET
2 3 (2.27%) ADO
2 3 (2.27%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.27%) LDAP
2 3 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.52%) CSS
3 2 (1.52%) HTML
3 2 (1.52%) JSON
3 2 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.52%) SOAP
3 2 (1.52%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.76%) RESTful
4 1 (0.76%) Web Services
4 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.27%) NHS
3 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Android
2 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.88%) Agile
2 39 (29.55%) Test Automation
3 38 (28.79%) Test Scripting
4 35 (26.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 33 (25.00%) Test Management
6 31 (23.48%) DevOps
7 19 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (12.88%) Functional Testing
8 17 (12.88%) Manual Testing
9 16 (12.12%) Scenario Testing
9 16 (12.12%) Software Testing
9 16 (12.12%) Test Strategy
10 15 (11.36%) Test Planning
10 15 (11.36%) Validation
11 12 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
12 11 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
12 11 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 11 (8.33%) Scrum
13 10 (7.58%) Integration Testing
13 10 (7.58%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.61%) SQL
2 8 (6.06%) Java
2 8 (6.06%) Python
3 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.55%) C#
5 3 (2.27%) C++
5 3 (2.27%) VBScript
6 2 (1.52%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.52%) SOQL
6 2 (1.52%) VBA
7 1 (0.76%) C
7 1 (0.76%) ProC
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.24%) ISTQB
3 22 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 18 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.30%) Degree
6 5 (3.79%) ISEB
7 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) QA
2 8 (6.06%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (1.52%) Firmware
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Ansible
1 3 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 26 (19.70%) Oracle
2 12 (9.09%) SAP
3 10 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.03%) Denodo
4 4 (3.03%) HP
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) Ariba
6 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.52%) Brio
6 2 (1.52%) Google
6 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe
7 1 (0.76%) Genesys
7 1 (0.76%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.76%) Workday