Senior Test Analyst Contract Job Trends

Senior Test Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £381, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 499 546
Rank change year-on-year -52 +47 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 33 45 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 47
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £359 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £426 £477 £572
90th Percentile £616 £607 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 33,513 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,975 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Test Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Test Analyst
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -41 28 £375 -11.76% 23
London -25 20 £375 -11.76% 1
UK excluding London -33 12 £400 -5.88% 23
Work from Home -5 7 £415 -2.35% 7
South East -23 5 £413 -13.11% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £375 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £375 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 2
North of England - 1 £325 - 7

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 17 (51.52%) System Integration Testing
2 13 (39.39%) Integration Testing
2 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 13 (39.39%) Test Automation
3 12 (36.36%) Validation
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) Azure
4 11 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 10 (30.30%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (27.27%) DevOps
6 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 9 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (24.24%) Data Validation
7 8 (24.24%) Migration
8 7 (21.21%) Data Migration
8 7 (21.21%) Regression Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Scrum
8 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
9 6 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (18.18%) BigQuery
9 6 (18.18%) Confluence
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.18%) GCP
9 6 (18.18%) Postman
9 6 (18.18%) QA
9 6 (18.18%) Test Planning
9 6 (18.18%) Windows
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.18%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon QuickSight
2 5 (15.15%) Parquet
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Postman
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) Selenium
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.06%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Apache Avro
1 5 (15.15%) JSON
2 4 (12.12%) ADO
2 4 (12.12%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (9.09%) Middleware
3 3 (9.09%) SOAP
4 2 (6.06%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) Playwright
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) XML
5 1 (3.03%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Derivative
2 1 (3.03%) EPoS
2 1 (3.03%) FMCG
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) System Integration Testing
2 13 (39.39%) Integration Testing
2 13 (39.39%) Test Automation
3 12 (36.36%) Validation
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 10 (30.30%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (27.27%) DevOps
6 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 9 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (24.24%) Data Validation
7 8 (24.24%) Migration
8 7 (21.21%) Data Migration
8 7 (21.21%) Regression Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Scrum
8 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
9 6 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.18%) Test Planning
10 5 (15.15%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) SmartStream
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Compaq
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) HP
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Terracotta
3 1 (3.03%) webMethods