Hybrid/Remote Senior Test Analyst Contract Job Trends

Senior Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £415, 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 307 302 357
Rank change year-on-year -5 +55 +142
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 7 12 17
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.068% 0.10% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile £365 £398 -
25th Percentile £388 £403 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% - -10.05%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £563
90th Percentile £615 £640 £628
UK median daily rate £381 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -10.29% -15.00% +2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,533 10,861 16,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.14% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 6,881 11,057
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 197 360
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.59
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -30.52% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.55
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -23.60% +48.33%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Test Analyst' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Test Analyst job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Test Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Test Analyst job vacancies

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Senior Test Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) ADO
3 1 (14.29%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Business Agility
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Collateral Management
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber

Senior Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) SmartStream