QA Test Analyst Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 570 738
Rank change year-on-year +58 +168 -105
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 21 70 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.14% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.15% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 61 26
10th Percentile £446 £411 £263
25th Percentile £466 £550 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £628 £405
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £517 £738 £428
90th Percentile £550 £810 £471
UK median daily rate £500 £628 £405
% change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

QA Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Analyst in England

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Test Analyst in England

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Analyst in England

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Analyst in England

QA Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
South East - 8 £505 - 1
London +43 5 £513 -24.07%
Yorkshire - 3 £517 - 1
North of England - 3 £517 - 1
East Midlands +18 1 £380 +31.03%
Midlands +13 1 £380 +34.51%
QA Test Analyst
UK

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, QA 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 across the England region featuring QA Test Analyst in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (38.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Oracle
5 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (33.33%) JIRA
5 7 (33.33%) Test Management
5 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 6 (28.57%) Postman
6 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (28.57%) Finance
7 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) Degree
7 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Test Planning
7 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) QA Automation

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (9.52%) Firebase
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) Postman
3 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
4 3 (14.29%) Selenium
5 2 (9.52%) Appium
5 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (9.52%) JMeter
5 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.76%) GitLab
6 1 (4.76%) TestComplete
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) DTCC
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (33.33%) Test Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
5 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) Test Planning
5 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) IT Audit
6 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) QA Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Java
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) Perl
2 1 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Ruby
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ISEB
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk