Senior Test Analyst Contracts

Senior Test Analyst
UK

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 531 619
Rank change year-on-year +38 +88 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 37 61 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 58
10th Percentile £325 £340 £325
25th Percentile £361 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £443 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +4.12% -
75th Percentile £416 £538 £539
90th Percentile £604 £575 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -28.57% +23.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 -

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 27,810 40,484 52,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.93% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,834 26,012 36,485
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 2,914 1,505
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.39 £16.38 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Test Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Analyst in the UK

Senior Test Analyst
Top 6 Contract 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 25 June 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 +52 36 £375 -16.20% 7
London +29 26 £381 -10.82% 4
Work from Home +38 15 £400 -5.88% 2
UK excluding London +43 10 £375 -28.57% 3
South East +52 9 £375 -25.00% 2
Scotland +1 1 £400 -27.27%

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) System Integration Testing
2 19 (51.35%) Test Automation
3 17 (45.95%) Agile
4 14 (37.84%) Software Testing
4 14 (37.84%) Test Planning
5 12 (32.43%) Logistics
5 12 (32.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (32.43%) Integration Testing
6 11 (29.73%) Windows
6 11 (29.73%) Defect Management
6 11 (29.73%) Waterfall
7 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.03%) SQL
7 10 (27.03%) Regression Testing
8 9 (24.32%) Validation
8 9 (24.32%) Manual Testing
8 9 (24.32%) JIRA
8 9 (24.32%) QA
8 9 (24.32%) Test Strategy
8 9 (24.32%) DevOps
9 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
10 7 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
10 7 (18.92%) Microservices
10 7 (18.92%) Test Scripting
10 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
10 7 (18.92%) Finance
10 7 (18.92%) Citrix
10 7 (18.92%) Middleware
10 7 (18.92%) Web Services

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (13.51%) SaaS
3 1 (2.70%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) 5G
1 4 (10.81%) VoLTE
1 4 (10.81%) VoWiFi
2 2 (5.41%) 4G
2 2 (5.41%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (5.41%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (5.41%) SMS
2 2 (5.41%) SS7
2 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) MS Access
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) QARun
2 4 (10.81%) WinRunner
3 3 (8.11%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.41%) Selenium
4 2 (5.41%) Toad
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.70%) Postman
5 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
General
1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Billing
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Middleware
1 7 (18.92%) Web Services
2 4 (10.81%) XML
3 3 (8.11%) SOAP
4 2 (5.41%) Playwright
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) System Integration Testing
1 19 (51.35%) Test Automation
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
3 14 (37.84%) Software Testing
3 14 (37.84%) Test Planning
4 12 (32.43%) Integration Testing
4 12 (32.43%) Logistics
4 12 (32.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (29.73%) Defect Management
5 11 (29.73%) Waterfall
6 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (27.03%) Regression Testing
7 9 (24.32%) DevOps
7 9 (24.32%) Manual Testing
7 9 (24.32%) Test Strategy
7 9 (24.32%) Validation
8 7 (18.92%) Microservices
8 7 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Test Scripting
9 6 (16.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) ISEB
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SEPA
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Citrix
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) webMethods