Test Strategy Contracts in the City of London

Test Strategy
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 87 146 157
Rank change year-on-year +59 +11 -30
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 39 32 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.96% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 23
10th Percentile £425 £459 £411
25th Percentile £463 £563 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £625
90th Percentile £633 £738 £712
Central London median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% +7.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Test Strategy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
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Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) AWS
5 3 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.69%) IaaS
5 3 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) dbt
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Looker
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) Tableau
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) SpecFlow
2 5 (12.82%) Postman
2 5 (12.82%) Selenium
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) Appium
4 3 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.13%) eggPlant
5 2 (5.13%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.13%) SOAtest
5 2 (5.13%) TestNG
5 2 (5.13%) TestRail
5 2 (5.13%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.56%) Gatling
6 1 (2.56%) JMeter
6 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Back Office
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
3 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Front Office
4 1 (2.56%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Lead
2 6 (15.38%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Test Leader
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.13%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Test Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Energy Trading Business Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) ETL Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Finance Manager
7 1 (2.56%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Migration Manager
7 1 (2.56%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) XML
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.13%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.56%) Life Science
1 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
1 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Test Automation
2 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Migration
3 7 (17.95%) Performance Testing
4 6 (15.38%) API Testing
4 6 (15.38%) ETL
4 6 (15.38%) ETRM
4 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 6 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (12.82%) API Management
5 5 (12.82%) Data Transformation
5 5 (12.82%) Test Scripting
6 4 (10.26%) Coaching
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.26%) Data Science
6 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) C#
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (12.82%) Python
4 3 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) MATLAB
5 2 (5.13%) R
6 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) ISEB
3 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.90%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) PMO
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.69%) Okta
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle
1 3 (7.69%) Ping Identity
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) Qualtrics
3 1 (2.56%) SnapLogic
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk