Test Architect Contracts

Test Architect
UK

The median Test Architect daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 683 842
Rank change year-on-year +151 +159 -196
Contract jobs requiring a Test Architect 47 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.028% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.030% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 17
10th Percentile £450 £294 £443
25th Percentile - £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £530 £525 £638
90th Percentile £575 £618 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £42.37 -
% change year-on-year +41.63% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Test Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +140 43 £500 +8.11% 6
UK excluding London +104 43 £500 - 4
East of England +42 33 - - 3
South West +26 6 £519 +9.21%
Work from Home +118 4 £500 +8.11% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 -
London +107 2 £500 -2.44% 2
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

Test Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 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 featuring Test Architect in the job title.

1 38 (80.85%) Test Strategy
2 35 (74.47%) SC Cleared
2 35 (74.47%) Security Cleared
2 35 (74.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (72.34%) Project Management
4 31 (65.96%) Electronics
4 31 (65.96%) Aerospace
4 31 (65.96%) Manufacturing
4 31 (65.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (65.96%) Analogue Electronics
5 8 (17.02%) QA
6 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.89%) ISTQB
7 6 (12.77%) Risk Analysis
8 5 (10.64%) Mainframe
8 5 (10.64%) DB2
8 5 (10.64%) IBM
8 5 (10.64%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
9 4 (8.51%) COBOL
9 4 (8.51%) Migration
9 4 (8.51%) VSAM
9 4 (8.51%) Azure
9 4 (8.51%) IDMS
10 3 (6.38%) Integration Testing
10 3 (6.38%) Performance Testing
10 3 (6.38%) System Testing
10 3 (6.38%) JCL
10 3 (6.38%) SQL Server

Test Architect 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 3 (6.38%) CICS
2 1 (2.13%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) DB2
2 4 (8.51%) IDMS
3 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Appium
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) Selenium
1 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
1 1 (2.13%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (74.47%) Social Skills
2 31 (65.96%) Aerospace
2 31 (65.96%) Electronics
2 31 (65.96%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.13%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 31 (65.96%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (10.64%) Mainframe
3 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.51%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) AIX
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Solaris
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) Test Strategy
2 34 (72.34%) Project Management
3 31 (65.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
5 6 (12.77%) Risk Analysis
6 5 (10.64%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (8.51%) Migration
7 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (6.38%) Batch Processing
8 3 (6.38%) Integration Testing
8 3 (6.38%) Performance Testing
8 3 (6.38%) System Testing
9 2 (4.26%) Agile
9 2 (4.26%) DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) Manual Testing
9 2 (4.26%) Non-Functional Testing
9 2 (4.26%) Security Testing
9 2 (4.26%) Software Testing
9 2 (4.26%) System Integration Testing
10 1 (2.13%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) COBOL
2 3 (6.38%) Assembly Language
2 3 (6.38%) JCL
3 2 (4.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (74.47%) SC Cleared
1 35 (74.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Kibana
1 1 (2.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) IBM
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.13%) F5
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle