Senior Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 380 483
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 14 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.16% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.17% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 19
10th Percentile £403 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £481
90th Percentile £586 £623 £500
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £473
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.82% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

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

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

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +33 9 £500 -15.25% 1
Scotland +21 4 £419 -1.47%
Midlands - 1 £575 -
Wales - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Senior Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Selenium
6 4 (28.57%) Test Management
6 4 (28.57%) Java
6 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
7 3 (21.43%) SDLC
7 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
7 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (21.43%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) V-Model
7 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
7 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
7 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
7 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
7 3 (21.43%) C#
7 3 (21.43%) VBScript
7 3 (21.43%) SAP
7 3 (21.43%) .NET
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
7 3 (21.43%) JIRA
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
3 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (14.29%) TestRail
4 1 (7.14%) Appium
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
4 1 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Test Management
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) V-Model
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) BDD
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (14.29%) SOA
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) VBScript
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) VBA
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Micro Focus
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle