Senior Test Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Test Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £425, 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 301 370 545
Rank change year-on-year +69 +175 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 21 29 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 39
10th Percentile £390 - £356
25th Percentile £400 £325 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £525
90th Percentile £586 £600 -
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
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 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior Test Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Test Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Test Analyst.

Senior Test Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Test Analyst over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Senior Test Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Test Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (47.62%) Back Office
3 10 (47.62%) Postman
4 9 (42.86%) Software Testing
5 8 (38.10%) Mobile App
5 8 (38.10%) Kotlin
6 7 (33.33%) Android
6 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
8 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
8 5 (23.81%) Azure
9 4 (19.05%) QA
9 4 (19.05%) Finance
9 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (19.05%) API Testing
9 4 (19.05%) DevOps
9 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
10 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
10 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
10 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 3 (14.29%) SAP
10 3 (14.29%) Java
10 3 (14.29%) JIRA
10 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Sentry
4 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Postman
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) Subversion
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (47.62%) Back Office
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) ADO
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Mobile App
2 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Derivative
3 2 (9.52%) Equities
3 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (42.86%) Software Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) API Testing
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
8 2 (9.52%) Functional Testing
8 2 (9.52%) Kanban
8 2 (9.52%) Order Management
8 2 (9.52%) Test Management
9 1 (4.76%) Business Strategy
9 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
9 1 (4.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Kotlin
2 3 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) VBScript
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) VB
4 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ISEB
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Charles River
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Micro Focus