Test Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 446 -
Rank change year-on-year +91 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Architect 43 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.037% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.039% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £413 £445 -
25th Percentile £481 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile £523 £531 -
90th Percentile £549 £535 -
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
% change year-on-year +41.63% - -

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 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £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 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £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 £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Test Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Architect in the UK excluding London

Test Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Architect in the UK excluding London

Test Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Architect in the UK excluding London

Test Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Architect in the UK excluding London

Test Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
East of England +44 33 - -
South West +24 6 £519 +9.21%
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Midlands - 1 £350 -
Test Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Test Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 37 (86.05%) Test Strategy
2 35 (81.40%) SC Cleared
2 35 (81.40%) Security Cleared
3 34 (79.07%) Project Management
3 34 (79.07%) Social Skills
4 31 (72.09%) Analogue Electronics
4 31 (72.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (72.09%) Electronics
4 31 (72.09%) Aerospace
4 31 (72.09%) Manufacturing
5 8 (18.60%) QA
6 7 (16.28%) ISTQB
7 6 (13.95%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.98%) Performance Testing
9 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
10 2 (4.65%) VSAM
10 2 (4.65%) Software Testing
10 2 (4.65%) COBOL
10 2 (4.65%) DB2
10 2 (4.65%) IBM
10 2 (4.65%) Security Testing
10 2 (4.65%) Integration Testing
10 2 (4.65%) IDMS
10 2 (4.65%) Manual Testing
10 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
10 2 (4.65%) System Integration Testing
11 1 (2.33%) Grafana
11 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.33%) Requirements Gathering

Test Architect 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 1 (2.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) DB2
1 2 (4.65%) IDMS
General
1 34 (79.07%) Social Skills
2 31 (72.09%) Aerospace
2 31 (72.09%) Electronics
2 31 (72.09%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 31 (72.09%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Test Strategy
2 34 (79.07%) Project Management
3 31 (72.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.95%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.98%) Performance Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Integration Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Manual Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Security Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Software Testing
7 2 (4.65%) System Integration Testing
8 1 (2.33%) Agile
8 1 (2.33%) Batch Processing
8 1 (2.33%) Computer Science
8 1 (2.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 1 (2.33%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (2.33%) Migration
8 1 (2.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (2.33%) System Testing
8 1 (2.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) COBOL
2 1 (2.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (2.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (81.40%) SC Cleared
1 35 (81.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Grafana
1 1 (2.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) IBM