Test Strategy Contracts in Bedfordshire

Test Strategy
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Test Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Strategy over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.80% 2.07% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.25% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £551 £190 -
25th Percentile £552 £213 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £250 £480
Median % change year-on-year +122.50% -47.92% -
75th Percentile £564 £319 £495
90th Percentile £567 £360 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -4.35% +14.43% +18.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Test Strategy is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 178 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.75% 92.23% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 126 135
10th Percentile £313 £208 £263
25th Percentile £460 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% +15.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £539
90th Percentile £625 £628 £638
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 17
10th Percentile £15.31 £19.20 £14.40
25th Percentile £15.39 £28.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.05% -4.55% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £85.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +58.00% +61.29% -5.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Bedfordshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Innovation Management
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft