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 £398, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 271 292
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 72 130 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.68% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 102 116
10th Percentile £307 £306 £283
25th Percentile £344 £356 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £472 £575 £500
90th Percentile £538 £580 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £447 £475
% change year-on-year -10.51% -5.89% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.25 -

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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
South East +22 28 £398 -27.73% 29
Midlands -5 14 £425 +17.19% 29
West Midlands +9 12 £448 +17.51% 16
Scotland +5 8 £425 +13.33% 11
North of England -5 8 £395 -21.55% 26
South West +43 7 £355 -12.35% 9
North West -1 7 £395 -30.70% 13
Wales +3 4 £469 +20.97% 4
East of England +29 3 £313 - 18
East Midlands -4 2 £280 -22.76% 12
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 7
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (48.61%) Test Automation
2 30 (41.67%) Agile
3 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 22 (30.56%) Software Testing
5 21 (29.17%) ISTQB
5 21 (29.17%) Defect Management
6 20 (27.78%) JIRA
6 20 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (25.00%) Test Scripting
7 18 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
9 14 (19.44%) Integration Testing
9 14 (19.44%) Test Management
9 14 (19.44%) SQL
10 13 (18.06%) Validation
11 12 (16.67%) ISEB
11 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
11 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.67%) Azure
12 11 (15.28%) Waterfall
12 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
12 11 (15.28%) Manual Testing
12 11 (15.28%) XML
13 10 (13.89%) Migration
13 10 (13.89%) QA
13 10 (13.89%) Test Strategy
14 9 (12.50%) DevOps
14 9 (12.50%) Test Planning
14 9 (12.50%) TestRail
14 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps

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 4 (5.56%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.39%) Maximo
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.17%) SaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Apigee
4 2 (2.78%) AWS
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Stack
4 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) 5G
2 2 (2.78%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (2.78%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (2.78%) SMS
2 2 (2.78%) SS7
2 2 (2.78%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.78%) VoWiFi
2 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.39%) Internet
3 1 (1.39%) LAN
3 1 (1.39%) RTP
3 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) MS Access
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) Metadata
3 1 (1.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) JIRA
2 9 (12.50%) TestRail
3 7 (9.72%) Selenium
4 6 (8.33%) Postman
5 5 (6.94%) Zephyr
6 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 4 (5.56%) SoapUI
6 4 (5.56%) Toad
7 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.78%) GitLab
8 2 (2.78%) JMeter
8 2 (2.78%) QARun
8 2 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.78%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.78%) WinRunner
9 1 (1.39%) Appium
9 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.39%) HP UFT
9 1 (1.39%) TestComplete
9 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Games
7 1 (1.39%) Back Office
7 1 (1.39%) Electronics
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) XML
2 7 (9.72%) SOAP
3 4 (5.56%) REST
3 4 (5.56%) Web Services
4 3 (4.17%) JSON
4 3 (4.17%) Middleware
4 3 (4.17%) RFC 2544
5 2 (2.78%) .NET
5 2 (2.78%) Playwright
6 1 (1.39%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.39%) jQuery
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (1.39%) Swagger
6 1 (1.39%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.17%) EPoS
2 3 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.39%) PMI
3 1 (1.39%) SCADA
3 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (6.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Test Automation
2 30 (41.67%) Agile
3 22 (30.56%) Software Testing
4 21 (29.17%) Defect Management
5 20 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (25.00%) Test Scripting
7 14 (19.44%) Integration Testing
7 14 (19.44%) Test Management
8 13 (18.06%) Validation
9 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.28%) Manual Testing
10 11 (15.28%) Waterfall
11 10 (13.89%) Migration
11 10 (13.89%) Test Strategy
12 9 (12.50%) Data Migration
12 9 (12.50%) DevOps
12 9 (12.50%) Test Planning
13 8 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
13 8 (11.11%) Scrum
13 8 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) SQL
2 8 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (5.56%) C#
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.78%) VB
6 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.17%) ISTQB
3 18 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (16.67%) ISEB
4 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
6 6 (8.33%) Degree
7 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.39%) CCNA
8 1 (1.39%) CCNP
8 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SEPA
3 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.39%) Graphite
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) SAP
4 4 (5.56%) Denodo
4 4 (5.56%) webMethods
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco
5 3 (4.17%) Citrix
5 3 (4.17%) Talend
6 2 (2.78%) HP
7 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.39%) Databricks
7 1 (1.39%) IBM
7 1 (1.39%) Informatica
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk