Test Strategy Contracts in Bristol

Test Strategy
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 93 99
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 -33
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 10 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.95% 0.64% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.72% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £508 £340 £373
25th Percentile £556 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -2.70% +28.47%
75th Percentile £590 £475 £563
90th Percentile - £513 £585
South West median daily rate £562 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +9.75% +13.89% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 1,117 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.92% 89.00% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 750 848
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £659
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 220 103
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.88 £66.95
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Bristol

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) NUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 6 (60.00%) Test Architect
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Architect
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Test Architect
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (30.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
1 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) FIS
1 1 (10.00%) SAP