Test Strategy Contracts in Birmingham

Test Strategy
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 56 88
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 -27
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 13 19 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.70% 2.10% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.38% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 6
10th Percentile £250 £263 £238
25th Percentile £325 £413 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £383
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +30.72% -4.38%
75th Percentile £531 £743 £427
90th Percentile £625 - £463
West Midlands median daily rate £379 £540 £518
% change year-on-year -29.81% +4.25% +27.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Boomi
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Test Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Test Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Test Assurance Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Defect Management
3 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) Test Assurance
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Business Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) ProC
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 3 (23.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) ISEB
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) HP
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce