Test Strategy Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Test Strategy
South East > Buckinghamshire

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 69 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 2 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.42% 0.93% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.99% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.56% - -
South East median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 395 811 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.64% 94.08% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 656 536
10th Percentile £261 £313 £223
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +1.17% +3.26%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £555
90th Percentile £684 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 37
10th Percentile £15.85 - £10.29
25th Percentile £18.25 £9.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £10.00 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -7.15% -17.03%
75th Percentile £29.69 £10.50 £14.51
90th Percentile £48.75 - £25.29
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Test Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in Buckinghamshire

Test Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in Buckinghamshire

Test Strategy
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in Buckinghamshire

Test Strategy
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Milton Keynes +26 2 £585 +23.16%
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP