Test Strategy Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Strategy
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 9 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.16% 1.05% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.20% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £354 £363 £328
25th Percentile £363 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £486 £743 £575
90th Percentile £644 - £613
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 920 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.42% 88.21% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 697 869
10th Percentile £200 £211 £207
25th Percentile £270 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £603
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.98 £9.59
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -4.60% +31.76%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £38.75 £54.30 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Strategy in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Strategy in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Northamptonshire +10 6 £422 +7.39%
Lincolnshire +12 1 £775 +72.22%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Automation Tester
1 5 (55.56%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Talend Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 6 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Exploratory Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Functional Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
6 1 (11.11%) ERP
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Denodo
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Talend