Test Architect Contracts

Test Architect
UK

The median Test Architect daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 673 822
Rank change year-on-year +147 +149 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Test Architect 45 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.025% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.026% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile £400 £425 £444
25th Percentile £475 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £531 £616
90th Percentile - £638 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Test Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Architect in the UK

Test Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +140 45 £563 +18.42% 5
UK excluding London +93 42 £475 - 4
East of England +36 36 - - 3
South West +9 5 £519 +9.21%
Work from Home +109 3 £588 -1.05% 1
London +96 2 £588 +2.17% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

Test Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Test Architect 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 featuring Test Architect in the job title.

1 41 (91.11%) Test Strategy
2 36 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 36 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (80.00%) Project Management
3 35 (77.78%) Social Skills
4 34 (75.56%) Analogue Electronics
4 34 (75.56%) Electronics
4 34 (75.56%) Manufacturing
4 34 (75.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (68.89%) Aerospace
6 6 (13.33%) QA
7 5 (11.11%) ISTQB
7 5 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) Performance Testing
9 3 (6.67%) Finance
9 3 (6.67%) SQL
10 2 (4.44%) Java
10 2 (4.44%) Python
10 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.44%) JUnit
10 2 (4.44%) JMeter
10 2 (4.44%) Bugzilla
10 2 (4.44%) Scrum
10 2 (4.44%) Agile
10 2 (4.44%) Banking
10 2 (4.44%) Security Testing

Test Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.22%) IIS
1 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) AWS
1 2 (4.44%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Bugzilla
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
1 2 (4.44%) JMeter
1 2 (4.44%) JUnit
1 2 (4.44%) Selenium
1 2 (4.44%) TestNG
1 2 (4.44%) TestRail
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 34 (75.56%) Electronics
2 34 (75.56%) Manufacturing
3 31 (68.89%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 34 (75.56%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) AIX
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Solaris
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (91.11%) Test Strategy
2 36 (80.00%) Project Management
3 34 (75.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (6.67%) Performance Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Agile
7 2 (4.44%) Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) Data Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (4.44%) Defect Tracking
7 2 (4.44%) Kanban
7 2 (4.44%) Manual Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Scrum
7 2 (4.44%) Security Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Software Testing
7 2 (4.44%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Java
2 2 (4.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 36 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Grafana
1 1 (2.22%) Kibana
1 1 (2.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
1 1 (2.22%) F5
1 1 (2.22%) IBM
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle