Test Analyst Contracts in London

Test Analyst
England > London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in London is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 297 398
Rank change year-on-year +10 +101 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 113 189 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.79% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 161 168
10th Percentile £318 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £525
90th Percentile £575 £738 £618
England median daily rate £450 £475 £415
% change year-on-year -5.26% +14.46% +10.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in London

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Central London +43 24 £419 -18.29% 1
East London -4 3 £468 +7.47%
South London +10 2 £376 -2.90%
North London - 1 £313 -
Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, 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 London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 53 (46.90%) Test Automation
2 51 (45.13%) Agile
3 29 (25.66%) Social Skills
4 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
5 25 (22.12%) Finance
5 25 (22.12%) Software Testing
6 24 (21.24%) Selenium
7 23 (20.35%) Performance Testing
7 23 (20.35%) C#
7 23 (20.35%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (19.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (18.58%) Back Office
9 21 (18.58%) Azure
9 21 (18.58%) Postman
10 19 (16.81%) Manual Testing
10 19 (16.81%) Test Scripting
10 19 (16.81%) DevOps
11 18 (15.93%) Scrum
12 17 (15.04%) JIRA
12 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (15.04%) WebDriver
13 16 (14.16%) Mobile App
13 16 (14.16%) Visual Studio
13 16 (14.16%) CI/CD
14 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
14 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
14 15 (13.27%) Test Strategy
15 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
15 14 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
15 14 (12.39%) Public Sector

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.54%) AWS
5 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.77%) dbt
6 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.77%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.88%) GCP
7 1 (0.88%) GitHub
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
7 1 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.88%) Serverless
7 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) MVNO
1 2 (1.77%) SMS
1 2 (1.77%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.88%) DVB
2 1 (0.88%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (21.24%) Selenium
2 21 (18.58%) Postman
3 17 (15.04%) JIRA
3 17 (15.04%) WebDriver
4 16 (14.16%) Visual Studio
5 13 (11.50%) SpecFlow
6 6 (5.31%) Appium
6 6 (5.31%) LoadRunner
7 4 (3.54%) JMeter
7 4 (3.54%) Rational Performance Tester
8 3 (2.65%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.77%) Maven
9 2 (1.77%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.77%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.88%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.88%) Travis CI
General
1 29 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Finance
3 21 (18.58%) Back Office
4 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.73%) Banking
6 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.62%) .NET
2 11 (9.73%) .NET Framework
2 11 (9.73%) AngularJS
3 10 (8.85%) XML
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.54%) ADO
6 2 (1.77%) REST
7 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.88%) Kafka
7 1 (0.88%) Playwright
7 1 (0.88%) SOAP
7 1 (0.88%) Web Services
7 1 (0.88%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.62%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.65%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Contactless
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) IVR
6 1 (0.88%) MPEG
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) STB
6 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.88%) W3C
6 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Android
2 2 (1.77%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.90%) Test Automation
2 51 (45.13%) Agile
3 25 (22.12%) Software Testing
4 23 (20.35%) Continuous Integration
4 23 (20.35%) Performance Testing
5 22 (19.47%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (16.81%) DevOps
6 19 (16.81%) Manual Testing
6 19 (16.81%) Test Scripting
7 18 (15.93%) Scrum
8 16 (14.16%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.27%) Test Strategy
10 14 (12.39%) Acceptance Criteria
11 13 (11.50%) Integration Testing
11 13 (11.50%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (11.50%) Scenario Testing
12 11 (9.73%) Functional Testing
12 11 (9.73%) Regression Testing
12 11 (9.73%) Test Planning
13 10 (8.85%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.35%) C#
2 13 (11.50%) Kotlin
3 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.73%) SQL
4 6 (5.31%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.77%) Python
6 1 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.88%) ProC
6 1 (0.88%) Ruby
6 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) Degree
4 4 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) ISEB
6 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) HP
4 4 (3.54%) IBM
5 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.77%) Aderant
6 2 (1.77%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) Ariba
7 1 (0.88%) Citrix
7 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.88%) Dell
7 1 (0.88%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.88%) Symantec
7 1 (0.88%) VMware