QA Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £509 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 378 433 485
Rank change year-on-year +55 +52 -63
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 13 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.048% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.050% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 17
10th Percentile £463 - £263
25th Percentile £467 £263 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £283 £405
Median % change year-on-year +80.18% -30.25% +12.50%
75th Percentile £517 £426 £428
90th Percentile £519 £430 £433
UK median daily rate £500 £628 £405
% change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Yorkshire - 3 £517 - 1
North of England - 3 £517 - 1
East Midlands +18 1 £380 +31.03%
Midlands +13 1 £380 +34.51%
Wales - 1 £550 -
Scotland - 1 £550 -
QA Test Analyst
UK

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Test Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) Procure-to-Pay
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle
4 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (46.15%) Test Management
4 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Selenium
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Postman
6 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (23.08%) IT Audit
7 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (15.38%) Telecoms

QA Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Postman
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (46.15%) Test Management
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) IT Audit
5 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
6 2 (15.38%) E-business
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
7 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Ariba
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow