Test Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 292 252
Rank change year-on-year +18 -40 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 125 148 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.65% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.69% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 114 219
10th Percentile £306 £277 £300
25th Percentile £356 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.54% +4.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £438
90th Percentile £600 £575 £495
UK median daily rate £435 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -8.42% +15.15% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £58.00 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £54.25
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £54.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year +13.43% -0.46% +44.67%

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 19,528 21,567 29,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.42% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,672 14,888 20,612
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £365 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,125 1,402
10th Percentile £12.65 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in the UK excluding London

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 Test Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East -15 42 £550 +21.61% 3
Midlands +28 32 £363 +11.54% 2
North of England +26 23 £490 +22.50% 1
West Midlands +23 20 £410 +13.10% 1
North West +10 13 £570 +42.50% 1
Scotland +26 12 £375 -11.76% 1
East Midlands +16 12 £363 +31.82% 1
South West 0 9 £488 +14.71% 1
East of England 0 7 £313 -21.38% 2
North East +14 5 £420 -
Yorkshire +10 5 £490 -4.39%
Wales +15 2 £550 +62.96%
Test Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 42 (33.60%) Agile
2 38 (30.40%) Test Scripting
3 37 (29.60%) Security Cleared
3 37 (29.60%) Test Automation
4 34 (27.20%) User Acceptance Testing
5 31 (24.80%) ISTQB
6 29 (23.20%) Azure
7 27 (21.60%) Test Management
7 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
8 26 (20.80%) DevOps
9 24 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (16.80%) QA
11 20 (16.00%) Selenium
11 20 (16.00%) TestRail
11 20 (16.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 19 (15.20%) Oracle
13 18 (14.40%) Software Testing
13 18 (14.40%) SC Cleared
13 18 (14.40%) DV Cleared
14 17 (13.60%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (13.60%) Functional Testing
15 16 (12.80%) Test Strategy
15 16 (12.80%) Manual Testing
15 16 (12.80%) Scenario Testing
15 16 (12.80%) JIRA
15 16 (12.80%) Finance
16 15 (12.00%) Validation
17 14 (11.20%) Test Planning
18 12 (9.60%) SAP
18 12 (9.60%) SQL

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (3.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.20%) Azure
2 24 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.40%) AWS
4 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
4 3 (2.40%) SaaS
5 2 (1.60%) BrowserStack
5 2 (1.60%) IaaS
5 2 (1.60%) PaaS
6 1 (0.80%) Commercetools
6 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
1 2 (1.60%) SNMP
1 2 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.80%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.80%) DB2
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.80%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (16.00%) Selenium
1 20 (16.00%) TestRail
2 16 (12.80%) JIRA
3 9 (7.20%) Postman
4 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.00%) Git
4 5 (4.00%) Zephyr
5 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.20%) JMeter
5 4 (3.20%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.20%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.60%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.60%) GoogleTest
7 2 (1.60%) Maven
7 2 (1.60%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.60%) Subversion
7 2 (1.60%) TestComplete
General
1 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.80%) Finance
3 11 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.80%) Automotive
8 1 (0.80%) Billing
8 1 (0.80%) Electronics
8 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) .NET
2 3 (2.40%) ADO
2 3 (2.40%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.60%) CSS
3 2 (1.60%) HTML
3 2 (1.60%) JSON
3 2 (1.60%) LDAP
3 2 (1.60%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.60%) SOAP
3 2 (1.60%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.80%) RESTful
4 1 (0.80%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.40%) NHS
3 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.80%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.80%) IVR
4 1 (0.80%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Android
2 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.60%) Agile
2 38 (30.40%) Test Scripting
3 37 (29.60%) Test Automation
4 34 (27.20%) User Acceptance Testing
5 27 (21.60%) Test Management
6 26 (20.80%) DevOps
7 18 (14.40%) Software Testing
8 17 (13.60%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (13.60%) Functional Testing
9 16 (12.80%) Manual Testing
9 16 (12.80%) Scenario Testing
9 16 (12.80%) Test Strategy
10 15 (12.00%) Validation
11 14 (11.20%) Test Planning
12 11 (8.80%) End-to-End Testing
13 10 (8.00%) Defect Management
13 10 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (8.00%) Integration Testing
13 10 (8.00%) Regression Testing
14 9 (7.20%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.60%) SQL
2 8 (6.40%) Java
3 7 (5.60%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.60%) Python
4 6 (4.80%) C#
5 3 (2.40%) C++
5 3 (2.40%) VBScript
6 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.60%) SOQL
6 2 (1.60%) VBA
7 1 (0.80%) C
7 1 (0.80%) ProC
7 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.80%) ISTQB
3 20 (16.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 18 (14.40%) DV Cleared
4 18 (14.40%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.80%) Degree
6 5 (4.00%) ISEB
7 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.80%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) NIST
3 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.80%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Firmware
2 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Oracle
2 12 (9.60%) SAP
3 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.20%) Denodo
4 4 (3.20%) HP
5 2 (1.60%) Ariba
5 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.60%) Brio
5 2 (1.60%) Google
5 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) Cisco
6 1 (0.80%) Genesys
6 1 (0.80%) Micro Focus
6 1 (0.80%) Workday