Test Analyst Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £386, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 237 297
Rank change year-on-year -8 +60 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 59 108 184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.70% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.75% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 84 150
10th Percentile £281 £316 £263
25th Percentile £333 £363 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £443 £420
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +5.39% +3.70%
75th Percentile £490 £519 £495
90th Percentile £625 £610 £544
UK median daily rate £425 £447 £450
% change year-on-year -4.92% -0.67% +11.11%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Test Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Analyst trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Analyst.

Test Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Analyst.

Test Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (59.32%) Test Automation
2 23 (38.98%) User Acceptance Testing
3 19 (32.20%) Software Testing
3 19 (32.20%) System Integration Testing
4 18 (30.51%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) Windows
5 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
5 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
6 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
7 14 (23.73%) DevOps
8 13 (22.03%) SQL
8 13 (22.03%) Finance
9 12 (20.34%) Waterfall
9 12 (20.34%) QA
10 11 (18.64%) Integration Testing
10 11 (18.64%) Logistics
11 10 (16.95%) C#
11 10 (16.95%) Manual Testing
11 10 (16.95%) Test Planning
12 9 (15.25%) JIRA
12 9 (15.25%) Azure
12 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
12 9 (15.25%) Java
12 9 (15.25%) Regression Testing
13 8 (13.56%) WinRunner
13 8 (13.56%) Oracle
13 8 (13.56%) Python
13 8 (13.56%) Unix
13 8 (13.56%) Test Scripting

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
2 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.69%) SAP SD
1 1 (1.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.78%) AWS
4 3 (5.08%) GitHub
4 3 (5.08%) SaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Apigee
5 2 (3.39%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) 4G
1 1 (1.69%) 5G
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) VoLTE
1 1 (1.69%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) MS Access
2 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.69%) Metadata
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 8 (13.56%) QARun
2 8 (13.56%) WinRunner
3 7 (11.86%) Selenium
4 6 (10.17%) HP UFT
5 5 (8.47%) Postman
6 4 (6.78%) Cypress.io
6 4 (6.78%) TestComplete
7 2 (3.39%) GitLab
7 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.39%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.69%) Appium
8 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.69%) JUnit
8 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.69%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.69%) TestRail
8 1 (1.69%) Toad
8 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Billing
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Web Services
2 6 (10.17%) Middleware
3 5 (8.47%) Playwright
4 4 (6.78%) .NET
5 2 (3.39%) Kafka
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.69%) LangChain
6 1 (1.69%) pytest
6 1 (1.69%) RFC 2544
6 1 (1.69%) SOAP
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.39%) PMI
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) EPoS
3 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Windows
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) Test Automation
2 23 (38.98%) User Acceptance Testing
3 19 (32.20%) Software Testing
3 19 (32.20%) System Integration Testing
4 18 (30.51%) Agile
5 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (23.73%) DevOps
7 12 (20.34%) Waterfall
8 11 (18.64%) Integration Testing
8 11 (18.64%) Logistics
9 10 (16.95%) Manual Testing
9 10 (16.95%) Test Planning
10 9 (15.25%) Regression Testing
10 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
11 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (13.56%) Test Scripting
12 7 (11.86%) Defect Management
12 7 (11.86%) Migration
12 7 (11.86%) System Testing
13 6 (10.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 10 (16.95%) C#
3 9 (15.25%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) Python
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) ISEB
4 2 (3.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.69%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Grafana
1 1 (1.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) Citrix
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) SAP
4 4 (6.78%) Bloomberg
4 4 (6.78%) Reuters
5 2 (3.39%) Talend
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) Concur
6 1 (1.69%) Denodo
6 1 (1.69%) Genesys
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) Murex
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) webMethods
6 1 (1.69%) Workday