Agile Test Analyst Contract Job Trends

Agile Test Analyst
UK

The median Agile Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 - 613
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Test Analyst 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £342
25th Percentile - - £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 32,848 33,983 42,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.83% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,819 20,547 28,844
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,249 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +79.00%

Agile Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agile Test Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agile Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Agile Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Agile Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Test Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Agile Test Analyst
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 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
England - 3 £300 -
London - 2 £300 -
North West - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Agile Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, Agile Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Test Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Smoke Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing

Agile Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AS400
1 2 (66.67%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Smoke Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM